I reocrded a song on one tape recorder decades ago and that one no longer works. I digitized from another one and , I find that the song plays faster. I can hear that the pitch is about a semitone higher. What setting should I use to correct it ?
Are you sure that the project sample rate is the same as your audio interface one ?
Use your ear with Direct Offline Process, pitch shift. Or in the project set time stretch = elastique pro Tape.
Additionally to your ear create a reference tone of the root key of the song and tune it to that.
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But make sure to check that the sample rates match like Martin suggests before modifying the audio as it could just be a playback issue.
So I came back to this project. It and the interface are both 44.1K htz.
I need to do a time stretch as it is faster as well as a semitone higher. I had already mapped out this involved song. All that will be misaligned then. If I did at first did a set tempo from definition would it keep any of that mapping
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“pitch and speed are incorrect”.
Just in case you decide to completely start over (a hard lesson I learned I had to do years ago when beginning to transfer hundreds of audio tapes for the purpose of making new multitracks…and realized a ways in that speed/pitch were off)…
…first, pre-treat the raw digital transfer master audio file to lock it to original correct pitch, eliminate wow/flutter, preserve original tempo…things which would not be done within cubendo, but rather as standalone initial surgery with programs designed to “only” do that.
It makes for incredible peace of mind when I then load that pre-repaired master audio file into Cubendo to begin a new project with it.
Oh…and never ever ever ever …ever…think of reducing tape hiss early on (in case you’re considering it). You’ll regret that one bigtime if done too early (if at all).
The start-overs from 2005 still irk me today 
But at least, I learned