When Glee first hit the air I loathe it . Sure , it was sharkfully wicked , but for a show about the delight of merely singing , I found the autotune insulting . I survived . Smule ’s Glee app realize autotune a blast .
Here ’s how it works : You sing into your iPhone ’s ( or iPad ’s ) microphone along with background knowledge euphony . A live sales pitch meter will let you know if you ’re in tune or not . All passably standard stuff and nonsense for a karaoke game .
But what ’s inordinately clever — and technologically impressive — is that Glee does n’t just automatically autotune your voice as it is output through the earphone but also generates live autotuned concordance from your own part . It takes your mediocre tattle and release it into overproduced pop pap — and it ’s fantastic .
Oh , and then it register all of that be so you may partake in with other users , who then can bring their own voice on top . And if you ’re really a decorous vocalizer , you could turn off the autotuning and concord and just go it audio instinctive .
Now because it ’s an app from Smule , the societal stratum is incredibly round-eyed and fun . penetrate the “ Listen ” push from the top menu and up bulge the now trademark spinning globe . beam beacon fire of luminousness show other singers around the world . Touch the light and mind in live . I ’m listen to a guy name “ quisguous ” stumble his way through “ I Ca n’t agitate This Feeling any longer ” as I type this .
Whoa . in reality , I ’m mind to four masses singing versions of this at once . I do n’t call back this is happening live , but that each person has layer their own singing over the track . Too nerveless .
There are three birdcall include for the $ 3 monetary value : “ Rehab ” , “ Somebody to Love ” , and “ You Keep Me Hanging On ” . “ Ca n’t push This Feeling ” , “ Imagine ” , “ I ’ll tolerate By You ” , “ tip On Me ” , and “ No Air ” are each useable for a $ 1 each . As Glee is a universal app , buy a vocal on one gadget lease you redownload that song for free on another authorised twist . ( The iPad rendering is n’t really different than the iPhone version , except for the resolution of the computer graphic . )
I have only one charge : The background euphony is too quiet and can not be adjusted or mix with the autotuned singing . As anyone who has essay to memorialise themselves singing with headphone on know , it can be really distracting to try yourself coming back into your ear in realtime while you ’re trying to sing . It ’s even crazier when the voice coming back is autotuned and ever so slightly delayed . I think being able to institute up the loudness of the background music would help a lot . ( you may also just keep the microphone further forth from your mouth , but even that is a flake tetchy . )
Shockingly , the Glee app might be one of the best karaoke game yet made and it ’s a pity the catalog will be circumscribe to songs from the goggle box series . If you ’re a fan of the show or music game in general , it ’s worth every penny .
Even Mark Wilson , who start to test to cough out some whacky anti - Glee commentary in our edit duct — about Jane Lynch as Madonna of all thing ! Heresy!—came back from playing the Glee app for a few minutes and was like , “ So you ’re proper . This is the best thing ever . ” It was n’t long before he was stargaze of a version that used a front - facing photographic camera , a sort of karaoke Chatroulette .
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