Reaper: How to Preserve Pitch When Speeding Up Playback

When you increase the playback speed in Reaper, by default the pitch of the audio is increased as well. As one Facebooker put it, “it sounds like a chipmunk that’s had one too many espressos.”

The fix:

In the Transport area, right-click the Playback Rate slider and select, “Preserve pitch in audio items when changing master playrate.”

That’s it.

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