{"id":543534,"date":"2026-07-16T00:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T00:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/543534\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T00:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T00:30:15","slug":"if-i-didnt-have-autotune-i-probably-wouldnt-have-a-career-to-be-honest-i-certainly-would-have-less-hits-pop-producer-ian-kirkpatrick-on-the-importance-of-autotu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/543534\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIf I didn\u2019t have AutoTune, I probably wouldn\u2019t have a career, to be honest. I certainly would have less hits\u201d: Pop producer Ian Kirkpatrick on the importance of AutoTune, and how it enabled him to use a Dua Lipa demo vocal on a finished track"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a songwriter, producer and musician, Ian Kirkpatrick has worked with some of the biggest names in pop \u2013 Dua Lipa, Sabrina Carpenter and Selena Gomez, for example \u2013 and, in a new interview with Antares, creator of AutoTune, he\u2019s been offering us some insight into how important the famous pitch-correcting software<\/a> is to his process.<\/p>\n

In fact, says Kirkpatrick, \u201cIf I didn\u2019t have AutoTune, I probably wouldn\u2019t have a career to be honest, because I’m very impatient. I certainly would have less hits.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Quite an admission to make, but he says that the software\u2019s biggest benefit for him is that it enables him to work at speed and use vocal takes that would otherwise need to be re-recorded.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe reason I use AutoTune is for efficiency \u2013 for help in sessions when I’m writing songs, to make things go quicker, and to take some of the pressure off of the vocalist,\u201d says Kirkpatrick. He adds that this is particularly important when he\u2019s working with a major-league pop star such as Dua Lipa, whose time with him can be limited.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes the artist might not have all day and we need to get takes,\u201d says Kirkpatrick. \u201cYou know, even at the level of Dua Lipa, she’s only available the day we write the song. There’s a song called Pretty Please [from Lipa\u2019s 2020 album, Future Nostalgia] where the vocal on it is the vocal we recorded on the day of [writing the song] on an SM7 [Shure microphone<\/a>], realtime AutoTune, on the couch, and it just ended up \u2013 literally, I didn’t take it past [AutoTune] EFX. I just left it on the track and that was it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Of course, purists might argue that re-recording would be the preferable option, but Kirkpatrick suggests that, in doing that, you might lose something else. AutoTune, he says, \u201clets me use takes that might sound a little more honest in delivery even though the pitch wasn’t a priority. The pitch might be a few cents off, but like, enough to distract a listener from the message and a waste of a take if I couldn’t fix that, you know, and AutoTune just helps me do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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