pitching drums without preserving length

hey all im "learning" this app and think its great, however there is somethin i would like to know regarding the pitching of drums, i have been into the project setup and gone through various algorithms but they all seem to add artifacts to the sound. and the drums dont sound anything like natural. i come from using reason and in the nnxt you could pitch the drum and it would sound perfect, i think this is due to the fact that its not stretching the sound to make it stay the same length whilst pitching. i wanted to know whether the same thing could be done in reaper. so that when you pitch the sample up it isnt trying to stretch it to keep it the same length. any help would be mucho appreciato :)

One method would be to uncheck "Preserve pitch when changing playrate" in the items with the drumsound (item properties) and then ALT+drag an item edge to change the playrate/pitch. I do my drums with a sampler, so I never had this question. There will be other less backwards solutions, I'm sure. Others will hopefully chime in soon. This is just what I can come up with from the top of my head to quickly do what is asked and keep moving.

there are actions you can assign to do that too! :) welcome to reaper! check out the sws extension from resources page above, easy to install and super powerful!

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great, thanks again for the help. :D