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Nightcore Maker
Free Nightcore Maker — Speed Up & Pitch Up Songs Online
Upload a song, speed it up, raise the pitch, preview the result, and export your nightcore edit as MP3 or WAV. No signup required. This nightcore maker runs in your browser.
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Speed, Pitch, Bass, Reverb, Reverb Size
Presets: Light, Classic, Fast, High Pitch
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🎵 Want slowed + reverb instead? Use the main Slowed Reverb Generator.
Open Generator →How to Make a Nightcore Song Online
Increase the speed
Raise the speed above 1.00x to make the song faster and more energetic.
Raise the pitch
Add semitones for the bright nightcore tone. Watch the combined rate as you go — pitch and speed multiply, and 1.35x to 1.6x is the range to land in.
Preview and download
Listen to the edit, adjust the settings if needed, then export as MP3 or WAV.
Recommended Nightcore Settings
The Speed and Pitch controls both drive the same playback rate, so they multiply rather than stack side by side. The column that tells you how an edit will sound is Combined — that is the rate the track is genuinely played at, and the total shift it produces.
| Preset | Sliders | Combined | Total shift | Character |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Light Nightcore | 1.15x + 3 st | 1.37x | +5.4 st | The gentlest preset. Bright and quicker, but a vocal still reads as the original singer. |
| Classic Nightcore | 1.20x + 4 st | 1.51x | +7.2 st | A fifth up. This is the sound most people picture when they say nightcore. |
| Fast Nightcore | 1.30x + 6 st | 1.84x | +10.5 st | Close to double speed and nearly an octave up. Energetic, and openly an effect. |
| High Pitch | 1.45x + 10 st | 2.58x | +16.4 st | Past an octave. Comic rather than musical — useful deliberately, rarely by accident. |
Classic Nightcore is the right starting point for most songs. If the vocal turns harsh before it turns energetic, step back to Light rather than trying to fix it with reverb — harshness here is the pitch shift showing, and reverb will only blur it.
Why Use This Online Nightcore Maker?
It shows the combined rate
Speed and pitch multiply into one playback rate. The tool displays that number live, so you know a 1.15x + 3 st setting is really playing at 1.37x rather than finding out on export.
Reverb and bass, not just speed
Speeding a track up thins it out, because everything moves up and away from the low end. A little bass and a short room put back the weight the shift takes away.
Four presets that differ meaningfully
Light through High Pitch span 1.37x to 2.58x combined. They are spaced far enough apart to be genuinely different choices rather than four names for the same edit.
Varispeed, not time-stretch
This is varispeed — the samples are read faster, not cut up and re-spaced. No smearing on drums, no artefacts on consonants, at the cost of pitch and tempo being locked together.
Every control is live
Speed, pitch, bass, and reverb all update on the running audio, so the edit is found by ear rather than by repeated exports.
The reverb tail is kept
Every preset leaves the room ringing after the last note, and the export is extended to hold it. The edit ends on a decay rather than being cut off the instant the source runs out.
Nightcore Is One Number, Not Two
Every guide describes nightcore as two operations: speed the song up, and raise the pitch. That is a fair description of the intent, but it is not what is happening underneath. Speeding a recording up already raises the pitch — the two are the same operation viewed from different ends. What defines a nightcore edit is a single quantity: the playback rate.
That has a practical consequence on this page, because the Speed and Pitch controls both feed that one rate and therefore multiply. Setting 1.15x speed and +3 semitones does not give you a track at 1.15x that also happens to be brighter. It gives you a track at 1.37x, which is +5.4 semitones — the two settings compound. The tool shows that combined figure live so you are never guessing, and the preset captions state the real rate rather than the slider positions.
Once you think in terms of the single number, the genre’s range is easy to describe. Below about 1.25x combined the edit reads as a slightly quick version of the original. Between roughly 1.35x and 1.6x is where nightcore actually lives — fast and bright, but the vocal still tracks as singing. Past about 1.8x, which is nearly an octave, the voice stops implying a person and starts implying an effect. None of that is a rule, but it explains why edits that sound wrong usually sound wrong in the same way.
For the history of the genre — its origins, why it attached to anime, and how it relates to the later sped-up trend on short-form video — see the full nightcore guide.
Nightcore vs Slowed Reverb
Nightcore usually speeds up a song and raises pitch, so the edit sounds bright, fast, and energetic. Slowed reverb usually slows a song down and adds spacious reverb, so it feels deeper, dreamier, and more atmospheric. Both are remix styles used by creators, but they push the song in opposite directions. Nightcore is useful when a track needs more motion, brightness, or short-form energy. Slowed reverb is useful when a track needs more space, weight, or a late-night mood. For nightcore, start with faster speed in the Audio Speed Changer and higher pitch in the Pitch Shifter, or use this page for both. Testing both styles can show whether your song works better as a fast edit or a slower atmospheric edit. For the opposite mood, try the Slowed Reverb Generator.
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Complete Nightcore Guide
Everything about nightcore: meaning, history, settings, and tutorials.
Nightcore Maker FAQ
Why does the tool show a different speed than I set?
Because the Speed and Pitch controls drive the same playback rate and therefore multiply. 1.15x speed with +3 semitones plays at 1.37x, not 1.15x — the pitch shift contributes its own rate change of 2^(3/12), and the two compound. The tool displays the combined figure live, and the preset captions quote the real rate rather than the slider positions, so what you read is what exports.
Is nightcore just speeding up a song?
Essentially, yes — and that is the useful thing to understand. Playing a recording faster raises every frequency in it, so speed and pitch are not two effects being layered but one operation described twice. What separates a good nightcore edit from a bad one is not whether you moved both controls, but where the combined rate landed. The extras that help are the ones that compensate for what the speed-up removes: a little bass to replace the weight, and a short room to stop it sounding thin.
What combined rate should I aim for?
Roughly 1.35x to 1.6x is where the genre sits. Below about 1.25x it just sounds like a slightly quick copy of the original; past about 1.8x — nearly an octave up — the vocal stops sounding like a person and starts sounding like an effect. Classic Nightcore at 1.51x is the safest starting point for most songs.
Why does my nightcore edit sound thin?
Because speeding a track up moves everything upward, including the low end that gave it weight. A kick that sat at 60 Hz is at 90 Hz after a 1.5x edit, which is a different and much less physical sound. That is what the bass control is for — the presets add a few dB precisely to put back what the rate change takes away. A short reverb helps too, by giving the brightened mix somewhere to sit.
Why do the vocals sound harsh at higher settings?
Varispeed scales the vocal formants along with the pitch. Formants are resonances set by the physical size of a singer's throat and mouth, and they normally stay put when someone sings higher — so moving them implies a body that changed size, which the ear reads as artificial. It is not distortion and cannot be fixed with reverb or EQ. The only real remedy is a lower combined rate.
How is nightcore different from a sped-up edit?
Mechanically they are the same operation at different intensities, and the sped-up trend on short-form video is generally milder — often 1.1x to 1.3x combined, where nightcore proper runs faster and brighter. The bigger difference is context rather than DSP: nightcore grew up around anime visuals and a specific community, while sped-up edits emerged as a platform-native format. The nightcore guide on this site covers that history properly.