When I play back in cubase, everything is roughly 10bpm faster than the bpm set as tempo. All the older audio is sped up to match the speed. When I record new audio files at the speed I’m hearing they get slowed down during export to match the tempo originally set (+ the pitch goes down because of it). How do I fix the playback speed in cubase without ruining all the work I’ve put in so far?
If you change the Sample Rate in the Project Setup from 44.1 to 48 kHz AFTER you have already made audio recordings, these will play back approximately 10% faster (and higher pitch).
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Thanks!
I’ve looked into the project files and it says 4100. It also says that that doesn’t match the audio hardware. Seems like the new headphones I got are 4800. So the solution would be to use my old headphones for all my old projects? Or is there a way to get the playback speed to go back to where it was before but with the 4800kHz headphones?
If you go to project setup and change the sample rate there to 48k it should ask you if you want to convert the audio in the project to the new sample rate. Allow it to do that and it will play at normal speed and pitch in the project and on export.
If you need to also keep the audio recorded since you started using these headphones things get more complicated! Even though it’s recorded at 48, Cubase will likely think it’s 44.1k because the project was set that way and it writes it to the header.
There are ways around this if the audio is irreplaceable….hopefully getting the project as it was pre new phones is good enough??
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Normal (analog) headphones do not have a sample rate; it is the audio interface that processes the audio data at a specific rate. The interface usually automatically adjusts this rate to the specifications of the output software (e.g., Cubase). So if you have set 44100 Hz in the Cubase project, this should also be played back, unless however the interface is deliberately set to a different value.
Which audio interface do you use?
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It could be that they don’t use an audio interface, or that their “Audio Interface” is technically the headphones, as there are some that just work out of the box.
For OP, If you use Windows, then you can usually find this setting under
- Settings → System → Sound → Choose Where to Play Sound → The Name of your Headphones
It should show under “Format” what sample rate your audio is being output at.
Alternatively, you also should check to make sure the sample rate coming out of Cubase matches. (Studio → Studio Setup → Check the settings of the ASIO Driver or Audio Interface that you use)
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yeah apparently windows automatically set the sample rate like that, thanks for the help 
that kind of messed with the positioning of all the midis and audios on the project, not sure why. What worked though is setting the headphones to 44.1k so it would match the original file and then just setting the tempo to the sped up version so the newly recorded audio files would not be slowed down. I did have to set the speed via audio → sample editor to teh original bpm and activate music mode on them. So for the ones where I already recorded I’m using that method now, while for the others I can just go back to the 44.1k versions
Thanks for all the help!