I am struggling with using ramps for MIDI CC control lanes. Whenever I am using “Ramp” to draw new events, the CC data is sent out at a relatively slow interval (50 milliseconds), which will cause the MIDI CC stream to be thinned out to a lower amount of distinct values instead of the normal 128. This causes an annoying “stepping” sound when used for e.g. filter sweeps.
In the user interface, Cubase draws the MIDI CC in the control lane as a perfect curve, however when using a MIDI monitor, the thinning out becomes very obvious. Also, if I export the data as a raw MIDI file and then import it back into Cubase, the thinning will also become visible.
Of course I can use the “Step” mode for drawing MIDI CC lines, in which case the full 128 range is used, but it would be great to be able to use the ramp mode as well for precise curves.
Is there anything one can do to avoid Cubase to automatically “thin out” the MIDI CC data when using ramps? I am using Cubase 14 Pro by the way. Snap is disabled and so is quantizing.
In the attached screenshot, the “up” part was drawn using the line tool in “Ramp” mode, the “down” part was drawn using “Step” mode. The MIDI file was then exported and re-imported into Cubase. You can thus see the thinning done on the Ramp part.
Basically, the sample rate to transform the ramp into a stream of MIDI CC events is far too low and I cannot find anywhere to increase it. So my question is, am I missing something obvious?
