How do I make nightcore?
Nightcore is a track sped up by roughly 25–30% with the pitch rising along with it — that linked speed-and-pitch shift is the entire genre. Drop any song on the nightcore maker below, pick the intensity, download the result. It renders in your browser, so the song never uploads anywhere.
- Drop your track. MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC — anything. The nightcore maker loads the audio engine in your browser on first use.
- Pick the intensity. Classic nightcore sits around +25–30% speed. The tool offers presets; the classic one is the sound you know from every nightcore channel.
- Download the MP3. The rendered track comes back as a high-quality MP3, ready for wherever it is going. Remaking at a different intensity takes seconds.
A 3-minute song renders in well under a minute. For the opposite vibe — slowed + reverb — there is a dedicated tool that does the pitched-down hall-sound edit in one pass.
What actually makes it "nightcore"?
Speeding audio up the naive way raises pitch automatically — voices go higher as the tempo climbs. Nightcore embraces exactly that artifact: one transform, both effects. That is why a proper nightcore tool links speed and pitch rather than time-stretching with pitch preserved, which produces a very different (and not-nightcore) result.
A note on sharing nightcore edits
The edit is yours; the song usually is not. Platforms handle this with content-matching — uploads may be monetized for the original rights holder or blocked depending on the label. Making the edit for yourself is the easy part; distribution rules belong to the platforms.
Tools for this job
Frequently asked questions
What speed should nightcore be?
The classic range is +25% to +30% — enough to lift a typical song into the bright, energetic register the genre is known for without turning vocals into chipmunks. Taste rules; remakes cost seconds.
Can I make nightcore from a music video?
Extract the audio first with MP4 to MP3, then run the nightcore maker on the result.
Is my music uploaded?
No. The processing engine (FFmpeg compiled to WebAssembly) runs on your device — nothing is sent anywhere, and it works offline once the page loads.