Installed Cubase Pro 15 about a week ago on my Mac mini Pro M4. Using my Ivory Pianos plug-in and a Yamaha DGX-660 digital piano. I am getting severe latency problems on my piano recording especially in fast passages. I have checked settings and can find no issues. Anyone having this problem?
Any high-latency plugins in the signal path? Or in control room?
Have you tried activating “Constrain delay compensation”?
Thanks, I activated “Constrain delay compensation” and turned off AQ and that worked. Appreciate the help. Phew! I thought I was going to have to buy another app there for a minute.
Cheers, John
Is that the Waves AQ? I’ve noticed some huge CPU hits using any of the recent Curves releases.
I’m guessing that if you switch this plugin off you may find you don’t need to activate Constrain Delay Compensation.
The CPU usage is irrelevant for “constrain delay compensation” though, only the reported latency is important.
(Of course, it might just be that this plugin also has a high latency, I don’t know it…)
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Yes, I agree. I’ve normally found that heavy CPU tends to lead to latency, but not always of course.
It’s the AQ that sits on the left side of the bottom tool bar in the project window. I haven’t touched anything because the problem has gone away for now and I need to work on my project some more. I saved the project as a template after removing all instrument tracks except for Ivory piano. The template works so I’m off to the races. When I have a slack moment I’ll switch off CDC and give it a whirl but you know the rule “If it works don’t fix it”.
My thanks to everyone for their responses. Much appreciated. I have been using Cubase for a long time but not at a high frequency. I think my first version was 10.5. It really is overkill for my purposes but I’m committed now and there are some new useful tools like chord help and other interesting things. I would like to add a bass track and drum track and some guitar here and there but I’m on a classical kick at the moment.
Good to meet you all. So great to get a fix to this, I was having to record the output of Ivory standalone from my speakers onto my external Zoom recorder to get a wave file. At least the standalone app works like a charm! I get carried away playing the German Steinway 9ft Grand with Ivory 3 - it’s FANTASTIC!
I needed to search for that as I don’t have it displayed.. that is MIDI automatic record quantize, I don’t know whether that has something to do with latency, but you sure wouldn’t want that enabled for recording piano 
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I’m pleased it is working for you. Cubase definitely seems a bit of overkill for the purposes you’ve outlined, but hey, we all use the tools in different ways.
Keep on keepin’ on!
Some of the newer features of Cubase look like they will come in very helpful. I like to play jazz on the piano (I love it but it has its challenges) and when Cubase came up with the chord feature that helps. I have yet to plumb the depths.
I started with the sequencer product “Notator” way back. Notator became “Logic” but for some reason I switched to Cubase. I was using Finale for scoring but it too was overkill for my needs so I used “Noteflight” to write the music.
I see that Cubase has a scoring tool and I expect I will need to quantize the notes to get a score that’s reasonably accurate but I expect it will help. I have resisted adding up all the money I’ve spent $99 at a time. I find that in some of the Cubase tutorials the tutor goes a little too fast for me so I sometimes call on chatGPT. Chat doesn’t always get it right of course and sometimes replies in the Windows context until I remind chat that I’m in the Apple universe for better or worse.
Synthogy have been responsive on Ivory and I did get a reply from Steinberg support on Cubase also so support is not bad at all. The forum produced results from you all very quickly, I’ll remember that.
Time to compose a song for my Valentine!
Cheers, John
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It’s genuinely brilliant to hear from someone that simply wants to play, and isn’t burdened by the technology 
If you need more advice further down the line the folks on this forum are helpful, and don’t be afraid to ask even if it seems like a dopey question. I’ve been recording music for more years than I care to remember, and every day is like a schoolday when using Cubase. There is always something new to learn.
I very much appreciate having such great resources to tap into - thank you! You are quite right, my goal for the rest of my retirement is to play some of the more challenging pieces of piano music (whatever the style/composer) while making use of the technology without spending hours trying to figure it out. I’ve spent most of my life working with computer technology but I would have to say it was my livelihood, not my passion. My passion would have probably left me destitute! My #1 passion is music, followed by art and theater and writing (not so great at that but willing to try). All the best and see you all downstream. Cheers, John
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