FR: Option to include Track Delay in the recorded MIDI

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For example:

  • You have a track with -500 track delay.
  • You record something perfectly on a grid, with a metronome.

Result:

  • When you play a track, it’s no longer perfectly quantized, but instead it’s played 500ms earlier, because of the track delay. Now you have to spend time to manually align it with a grid again.

Suggestion:

  • Make an option to include track delay to the recorded MIDI.
    • How I see it working: If that option is active, right after you stopped recording, all recorded MIDI should be shifted by the inverted amount of milliseconds specified in the respective track (Position += TrackDelay * -1).

Why?
Every professional composer uses negative track delay to counter pre-attack delays of various sample libraries. This feature can significantly reduce MIDI editing time for those of us, who mainly record notes with a MIDI keyboard.

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This suggestion makes no sense. Just don’t apply a delay to the playback of the track in the first place and you won’t have a problem.

Applying any value of delay to a track will make it play back earlier or later. That’s the point of it.

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Your misunderstanding of the very simple idea makes no sence. Of course I will use negative track delay, because it’s very difficult to work without it.

I have 1000 tracks, all are different Kontakt , Abbey Road, EastWest, Engine2 libraries with different articulations and different pre-attack delays. So no, I will continue to use delay, thank you for the suggestion.

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I saw this and your earlier post on this subject a while back. It amazed me how many people either completely misunderstood your point or just dismissed it. To me this seems like an absurdly logical feature to add to cubase and i’m frankly surprised that it wasn’t added years ago. It seems like such an easy thing to implement. I hope they do some day. Let me know if you find any workarounds.