For those who don't know what autotune is: It's a little audioplugin or hardware module which has the ability to correct out of pitch singing to in pitch singing. Mostly used to cover bad singing If used to strict or the singing is too out of tune you can get funny artifacts: listen at 1:35 minutes: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GHpLfhAtWY[/youtube]
Often not always these tallent idols singers are soo bad they need all the help. When these Idols are made looks of the participant's seems to be a big factor in the end.
What 9000???? No way that can be right. Here's another funny autotune movie [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBb4cjjj1gI[/youtube]
If you look at his mouth you wouldnt say they have auto-tune on. Must be a very small correction. But the if its such a small correction why make it? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1QYDUucHq8[/youtube]
Autotune corrects pitch, not timing. It's not playback, but realtime plugin processing so you won't have any delay. But if you hear that enormous correcting you can count it's on the whole time in realtime otherwise they would have fixed the out of tune error in a different way