Anybody else has this bug?
When instrument track has drum map on it, latency is increased.
It happens only when playing live, with monitoring enabled on track. If there is no drum map on track, GA responds to live input as usual. If drum map is enabled, live input has latency. Notes that are already recorded on midi track play properly. Bug is present only when playing live (monitoring enabled).
Make instrument track with GA
make drum map from instrument
play live with enabled monitoring on track - note with increased latency
remove drum map
play live with enabled monitoring on track - no extra latency
I’ve done a bunch of tests and I don’t think I’m getting any noticeable additional latency with the GM drum map using either GA4 SE or the full version of Groove Agent 4 as rack instruments.
Just recently updated BFD2 to BFD3 and have had to remap a bunch of kits as i wanted to take advantage of some of the new features in 3… i’m not noticing any latency… the tracks are mainly jazz funk numbers with some pretty busy and heavily syncopated parts and they sound just fine here.
Latency bug happens only when playing live, with monitoring enabled on track. If there is no drum map on track, GA responds to live input as usual. If drum map is enabled, live input has latency.
Notes that are already recorded on midi track play properly. Bug is present only when playing live (monitoring enabled).
Funny thing, if I keep the monitor button on and switch to a drum map, the latency is not there. Toggling the monitor off and then on again, and the latency is back. And we are talking something in the hundreds of milliseconds.
Must be an issue with GA then as i also use Arturia Spark, quite often at the same time as BFD2/3 with both systems mapped and again with no issues around latency…
I very rarely use GA these days as i just find it too clunky and somewhat lacking compared to most other drum vstis, i’ve also had it crash cubase on a few occasions when i also have an instance of halion5 loaded… but it gets dragged out from time to time if i just want to do something very simple very quickly…
Could well be actually!
In my own case if i ever have a problem with a plugin it’s invariably the vst3 version and swapping to the vst2.4 version (if there is one) generally remedies the problem…
You would expect that the latency compensation woudl take this into account, but it does not.
As i work a lot with printed scores and drums this is getting more and more annoing.
The bug is even weirder, because it also “spreads” to other drum plugins, like the VProm drum plugin (VST 2.4) when when I have a drum map there, and a drum map on GA… It appears to get triggered when the drum maps are on and you’re in Play or Record mode. When in “rest” mode, it first wasn’t there until I hit “Play”. Once it was there, it didn’t go away until I removed the GA drum maps.
When I remove the drum map from GA the latency is removed from both instruments. I’m on Cubase Pro 9.5.50 on Windows 10. I don’t have this problem on my Mac, Cubase 9.5 or 10.
