The Inventors of Auto-Tune Created a Tool to Transform Your Voice With “Ethical AI”

Auto-Tune’s makers have once again created software that manipulates your voice, which is either innovative music tech or just Snapchat filters for people with MIDI keyboards.

The company that gave us “Buy U a Drank” has created a new vocal tool that makes you sound like you’ve drank too much and woken up in someone else’s body.

Antares Audio Technologies, the Auto-Tune creator that made T-Pain and every other singer sound like robots in 2008, has launched Metamorph, a plugin that transforms vocals using locally processed AI models. The “ethically trained” software runs entirely within digital audio workstations, bypassing the browser-based workflow that has defined most AI voice tools until now.

Metamorph ships with a dozen voice models that can reshape lead vocals or generate backing harmonies without uploading files to external servers. And its offline format addresses persistent concerns about data privacy in AI audio tools, keeping session files on the user’s machine and outside training datasets.

According to a blog post from Antares, the company supports The Principles for Music Creation with AI, an industry framework attempting to balance technological advancement with creator rights. It asserts that Metamorph’s voice models were trained on properly licensed material with artist compensation, positioning the product as an alternative to generative AI music programs built on disputed datasets, like the controversial Suno.

The plugin’s integration into existing DAW workflows could ultimately prove just as significant as its technical capabilities. Most AI voice tools require exporting audio, navigating browser interfaces and managing usage quotas but Metamorph ostensibly eliminates those friction points, operating like a standard audio effect with no usage caps or WiFi dependency.

You can watch Metamorph in action below and purchase the plugin here.