Midi "ghosting/Jitter" Cubase 12 with midi controller encoders (Midi Remote Control)

I’m also getting this jitter on my setup - seems to happen with endless encoders that adjust their internal value according to received CC values.

e.g. I turn the hardware encoder from 65 to 75, triggering midi CC messages with values of
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75

Depending on how fast I turn the hardware encoder, the MIDI Remote (intermittently) seems to send back slightly outdated values (I’ve observed latencies of around 25ms between midi CC coming into the MIDI Remote and coming back out of the MIDI Remote (as measured via virtual midi cabling using loopMIDI on Win10).

For example, I may get an incoming CC value of 67 after I had already turned the encoder to send a 71. This in turn makes the internal value of the hardware encoder go back to the 67. And of course I’m still turning, so now the hardware encoder sends 68, 69, 70, etc - the end result being something like this:

65
66
67
68
69
70
71
67 << jitter point because of late arrival of echoed CC value
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75


When I tested the same device (Maschine MK2) with the legacy Generic Remote, it didn’t seem to suffer from the same jitter as the new MIDI Remote.

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