Hi guys, I need some help with reaper.

I'm not sure what happened, but now any media, audio, video & midi is being played a whole step high, or 2 semitones high, even when I play media through the media explorer without importing it. I have gone through all the settings & can't seem to find anything. Pitch preserve is on & nothing is sped up. In item properties pitch is 0, Also I was not tinkering with settings anywhere, I just noticed this a few weeks back.

Any help would be really appreciated as I don't want to have to reinstall & re-setup

Thanks in advance

 

Congrats, you have found your new sound. Some drop and damage their Waldorf filter and become Pole, and some have their sample rate change on them and become Full Step Carnivor.

 

In case this isn't due to a sample rate mismatch between Reaper and your interface... Have you tried running a portable Reaper with default settings to see if it still happens?

 

Check the sample rate in project settings, if the box is ticked untick and restart Reaper and check. Does ur recorded midi have the same issue.

 

His first post says it's also doing the transpose with Midi. Which doesn't make much sense if it is an issue with the session sample rate. No incorrect settings with this sort of problem will ever transpose the Midi data. Pretty strange.

I would try playing some audio directly from the Operating System, or another application. That way you could mostly rule out the DAW settings. Different session bitrates should not transpose the audio from a vst plugin; because they just match the project settings.

Because it is also doing it with audio from Media explorer, you 99% know it is not the DAW.

 

Last edited: May 28, 2023

Have you changed the playback rate?

 

Heres what I would try. Back up all your settings then try this

Shut down Reaper go to the start menu for reaper, there is a an menu item that says "reset configuration to factory defaults" select that and it ... See if that works. If so then you can reload your custom config and see if that mess it up again.

 

I assumed two things here: the MIDI is triggering soft synths, which are tied to the sample rate; and the media explorer he's talking about is the REAPER media explorer

I could be wrong though.

 

Does this happen with one particular project, perhaps one that you changed the tempo of at some point?

Or is it a problem with a brand new project too?

 

The media explorer, if he means in Reaper; is not the test I hoped then. He'd want any media player or other application outside of the DAW software, like a wave editor, etc. If regular wav audio playback is working correctly outside of the DAW; you have ruled out the audio interface settings; and any other possible incorrect settings in the OS.

About the midi, any playback within the session is going to match, and shouldn't have any impact on what he is hearing. Once it is rendered to audio, is where you would hear a problem if loaded at a different wrong bitrate than it was originally recorded at.

The "factory restore" to default settings in Reaper will rule out DAW settings; but I do not know how much customizations it will wipe out also.

 

no play back rate is 0. it's the first thing I checked

 

yes reapers media explorer

 

project & interface sample rate is both 44000hz

 

Just to be sure... You mean 44100hz, right? Because the difference of 100hz is close to 2 semitones.

 

I ment the media explorer in reaper, windows is playing audio fine.

 

I had 44,000hz as sample rate in project settings, the same as my scarlete 2i2 audio interface. I put a tick in the force samplerate & it seems to have fixed the problem. I think midi was playing the correct notes but the audio out from the plugin was being pitched up. So I think forcing the samplerate has fixed it. Thanks to everyone for all your help. I really appreciate it. If the problem persists I will let you know.

 

yes I meant 44100

 

do you guys use 44hz or 48hz?

 

you were right my dude

 

Not exactly so. Each 2 semitones are not always 100 Hz difference. Take A note for example. It is 55Hz, 110Hz, 220Hz, 440Hz, 880Hz, 1760Hz..... So, not adding several Herz, but multiplication.... 100 Hz is for 2 semitones of what?
Also 44100 Hz sample rate means 0-22050 Hz frequency range .... So, 50 Hz)