Audio interface recording in slow motion?

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I feel really stupid, and I can't seem to find a solution through the forum nor google. I'm new to the whole idea of recording music. I just started today and was making a song. Honestly, it sounds pretty good I think for a first try. Then, randomly everything recorded through the interface becomes distorted, slow, and a lower pitch. I don't know what is wrong. When I record a virtual drum or piano track, it doesn't do this, but when I record vocals and guitar it just makes the audio a very low and slow pitch. Please help! Thank you very much.
 
Shoot, I'm not that familiar with Mixcraft...
Does it start doing the half speed after you've recorded several tracks? Or are all your recorded tracks slowed down?
 
Check your sampling rate for playback. If for example you record at 96Khz and play back at 48Khz it will sound like it's half speed.

But this would not happen randomly. I don't think the sampling rate can be changed while the DAW is open.
 
MrWrenchey said:
Shoot, I'm not that familiar with Mixcraft...
Does it start doing the half speed after you've recorded several tracks? Or are all your recorded tracks slowed down?
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Well, it was going fine. I had just set everything up and installed the software. I started recording random things, from vocals with my new mic to plugging my guitar into the interface to multiple virtual instruments that came with the program, just to get a feel of how it works. About an hour in to it, that's when it changed. It didn't effect already recorded tracks, but it won't go away on any newly recorded tracks.
 
That's really strange. So your old tracks keep playing back normally, but the newly recorded ones are recording half speed?
Have you tried restarting the computer/unplugging and plugging back in your AKAI interface?
 
I would take the Manslick's advice and check the program and project settings for sample rate. Set it to 44,1khz.
 
Seidy said:
I would take the Manslick's advice and check the program and project settings for sample rate. Set it to 44,1khz.
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It is my guess that somehow the sample rate has changed.

Seidy's advice is sound. Put what you've done down to experience, and spend some time configuring your system. Setting it to 44.1khz is a sensible thing to do.
 
+1 on the sample rate being the problem.

as an aside, it might be worth just starting a completely fresh new project with a new destination folder for the recordings etc. just start from scratch.
Then try recording something and playing it back.

Fingers crossed that starting afresh will ensure your recording sample rate is the same as your project sample rate (which I guess is your current problem)
 
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