Cubase 5.5 MIDI Recording very early, happens out of nowhere

markshian · October 19, 2013, 5:51am

Hi guys,
I’ve got a major issue.
I installed a Alesis DM10X Midi kit to trigger Superior Drummer 2.0 in Cubase.
When I open a brand new project, everything records fine and perfectly in time, etc.
All of a sudden out of no where the MIDI drum hits will begin to record early, VERY EARLY.
And I have no idea what’s going on. i’ve tried reinstalling the MIDI drivers, I thought it was a Midi driver conflict or something. I’ve tried for 10 hours now and give up.
When I open a fresh project, everything’s all well for about an hour, and then it happens again.
Here’s the thing, once it starts recording midi early, this applies to EVERYTHING, piano, anything midi, will record early and there’s nothing you can do to fix it unless you start a new project.
Please shed some light as to what I could possibly do, I don’t know what’s going on.
Cubase user for about 4-5 years.
Sincere thanks,
Mark

NWP · October 19, 2013, 11:27am

Search Knowledge Base for System Timestamp and Emulated MIDI Ports.

markshian · October 19, 2013, 9:32pm

Hi, No luck with that, tried everything that has to do with MIDI ports and time stamp. No luck…any other ideas?

NWP · October 21, 2013, 5:11pm

Need to use the Emulated MIDI ports.

markshian · October 24, 2013, 5:34pm

By this you mean Directmusic MIDI ports, yes I’ve tried it but no luck.

markshian · October 24, 2013, 5:36pm

Steve Fogal:

Curious, what kind of midi are you using out of your ekit? 5-pin DIN or USB? Doesvit make a difference using one iver the other?
Strange, your project starts off fine…then apparently your midi timing ‘drifts’. But does this only happen when you’re well into the song project? That is, only after you have a bunch of other tracks…audio and/or midi? This was the case for me…too much going on well into the project, with too little resources on my quad-core, Win XP 32 bit, 4 GB installed ram. BUT, for me it was primarily a timing issue for ‘play back’…VSTi’s timing was fluctuating greatly. Raising my latency buffers by a LOT was the answer for my own problem, which was ok, since the project was well into near completion, and was at a mixing stage I could deal with the extremely high latency.

Dunno if my own experience will help.

Buffer does not affect it, it’s a very strange issue. Some kind of conflict between the DM10 module, and USB drivers and Cubase, somewhere in chain but no clue where it’s coming from. I use USB, but have recently stuck a MIDI cable out instead to see if the issue still persistst. I use Win 7, i3770K processor, 32GB ram, pretty beefy computer but the issue is in the software…

NWP · October 24, 2013, 6:06pm

Emulated does not = Direct Music.