Audio speed too slow

[Sonic Idiot]

Hello all.

I recorded a live gig on a laptop using an echo indigo card with Tracktion to an external hard drive, which I belive is formated to FAT32 as opposed to the laptop - a windows XP machine.

When playing back from the hardrive on the laptop everything sounds wonderful! But the time is all off - waaaay too slow - when tracks are bounced to 16 bit. Also, if the files are imported to a different hard drive, they play back at the same slowness. I can get it back on track by increasing the rate of sped the track is played back within Tracktion, which will do, I suppose. But what did I do wrong in the first place? What could it have been? The only thing I can think of is the FAT 32 format vs. NTFS. Is this the case?

 

[zekthedeadcow]

Is it possible thaty it was recorded at 16bit 48khz and played back at 16bit 44.1khz?

 

[Sonic Idiot]

It was recorded at 24bit, 41k and played back that way. I'm stumped. I don't see what would make this behavior possible. I was able to match the tracks to pitch by adjusting the speed control on each track in Tracktion (the whole project was recorded on a Rode stereo mic/RNP/RNC/Echo Indigo). It still sounds great, but I can't seem to figure out why this problem occured in the first place.