Changing playback speed without changing pitch.

**ollie99** · 02-07-2013

Originally Posted by VomitHatSteve

I poked around with it some more, and I think I've found most of what I was looking for:

If you right click on the toolbar with the play rate slider, there's a menu called "Play rate" with a "Preserve pitch in audio items when changing master play rate" option. If you select that, pitch won't change when you adjust the play rate.

At this point, the issue is entirely in my plugins (my pitch isn't changing, but my timing is getting out of synch). Since they're dependent on the "srate" and "tempo" variables (which do not seem to be affected by the slider), it looks like I need to mess with the tempo option to really get the results I'm looking for.

Is there a way to change the tempo without manually typing it in, such as a slider or something?

Thanks for this!
Been using drum samples and decided I wanted a quicker tempo but just changing the tempo didn't do anything but this worked

**VomitHatSteve** · 02-09-2013

Woah! Old thread!

You're welcome, I suppose. Honestly, my ultimate solution to this issue has just been to sequence things differently. (i.e. Do all the math ahead of time, so that I don't need to worry about tempo changes live.)