I used to work at a recording studio in Boston some years back, and I remember struggling to contain my laughter behind the mixing board as enthusiastic singers would come in acting like the next Whitney, and proceed to lay down the most atrocious, ear-splintering vocals. While most of them were beyond saving, some actually wound up with some decent sounding tracks thanks to the wonders of Auto-Tune, a piece of software (used by many prominent artists) that corrects off-pitch vocal recordings. The software was heavily scrutinized for assisting no-talent artists make good songs, but one could often tell if a singer used it since it would often leave a vocoder style effect on the vocals (ex. listen to any song by T-Pain).

Well fortunately for rock-star wannabe’s around the world, the technology has evolved even further into something truly amazing. Celemonys’ Direct Note Access took the idea behind auto-tune and built upon it to not only allow for non-destructive vocal editing (changing the pitch or timing of a vocal recording without a difference in audio quality), but to extend the function to recordings of instruments as well. So what does that ultimately mean? Watch the video below and be amazed.