Reaper Sampler Pitch Problems

[AngelCityOutlaw]

So I've been trying to write music in Reaper because I like its method of recording stuff better than FL studio.

I tried importing a sample into the samplomatic thing and then began writing music. All went well as planned. That is until....

I loaded in a VST plugin to record a lead over my rhythm track when to my horror, I discovered that my backing track was a whole step lower than what I thought I was playing and what the piano roll MIDI data shows I played.

What the hell is going on? Why does it pitch shift my samples even though I didn't tell it to do so? Just to verify it wasn't a problem with the samples themselves, I tried it in FL Studio and the pitch is correct.

[AngelCityOutlaw]

Well, thanks for all the tips. I never figured out why it imports the samples like that, but it's nothing typing in "2" in the semitones box after the fact can't fix.

On another note, so far I love the shit out of this Reaper thing.

[Argle]

When you say you loaded a track into ReaSamplomatic, is it something you could have just dragged and dropped right onto a track instead? Or is it an instrument sample you played with MIDI?

Edited September 16, 2013 by Argle

[Argle]

I've been doing some experimenting with ReaSamplomatic (which I never use), and it seems that you have to set Pitch@start to whatever makes the sample play at the correct pitch. It doesn't seem to detect the root pitch automatically. -60 works for a sample that's at C4.

Edited September 16, 2013 by Argle

[AngelCityOutlaw]

When you say you loaded a track into ReaSamplomatic, is it something you could have just dragged and dropped right onto a track instead? Or is it an instrument sample you played with MIDI?

Instrument sample I played with MIDI