I Am T-Pain 2.0

It’s a fact: everyone sounds better with the T-Pain Effect. Transform your voice and get your T-Pain on with scrolling lyrics and original beats from the hottest producers. Sing the songs included in the app or give your voice the T-Pain Effect while singing along to any track in your iTunes library.

Features

Autotune

I am T-Pain is named after famous pop singer T-Pain who had a role in popularizing the auto-tune effect in pop music. It will autotune your voice when you sing into it. That is its primary feature and the point of the app. It works best when your iPod, Smartphone, or tablet is plugged into a speaker or a set of headphones.

Recording

The user sings into his or her devices built in microphone and the app will auto-tune the singer's voice. The effect can be best heard when the recording feature is used. Recordings can be saved and played back as the user wishes.

Microphone

The app can be either set to the default setting or set to the key the user is going to be singing in. The effect itself can also be shut off in which case the device and speaker combination can be transformed into a basic microphone without autotune. This feature works well and with minimal delay.

Backing Tracks

Songs and backing track can also be purchased on the beats window. Many of the songs available are modern pop songs that use the autotune effect. Their are also beats that have been designed specifically for the purposes of the app. Most of these must be purchased. However, their are a few that are freely available.

World

When one has access to the internet, recordings can be shared across the internet through the world feature.. People can offer comments on other's recordings and share their own.

Classroom Applications

General Music

The microphone and autotune features offer interesting possibilities in a General Music setting. It is possible that in a small classroom setting, most students could be put on instruments while only one or two sing into the makeshift microphone that this effect allows you to create. Students could be excited and engaged by the sound of the effect and want to to try it. It would allow them to be heard over a larger ensemble of instruments and give them the opportunity for special attention in the spotlight of the class.