Technological innovation influences music vastly within a decade. A decade in which advanced faster than pretty much any other decade throughout the 1900s is the 90s. Music continues to change everyday and persists to be influenced by new technology. Technological advances affected music heavily in the 90s and continue to improve as time progresses. The evolution of music through technology started in 1991, as RollingStone says, “the first completely digital recording and editing system from Apple Macintosh was rebooted as Pro Tools.” The reboot of the computer software, which is used for creating and editing music, introduced increased speed within the software along with various other tools to artists. This large advancement allowed people to make and edit music right at their fingertips. This creation sped up the process of releasing music to the public also.
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With the help of Moving Picture Experts Group and German engineer, Karlheinz Brandenburg, MP3 emerged in 1995 making it possible to listen to music from your pocket. Items we see today such as smartphones and other music playing devices, are evolved versions of the MP3.
Going hand-in-hand with Pro-Tools, Auto-Tune, which was created by Dr. Andy Hildebrand, came out in 1997 highly impacted hip-hop and other genres of music. Singers such as T-Pain developed a career with the use of Auto-Tune. Although this invention was created in the 90s, it is used more in the present day opposed to back then. Listeners of the young generation enjoy the feature, further providing evidence of the evolvement of music.
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