Gday all. I’m struggling with the MIDI side of things in Cubase. I hope I explain this properly…
I am trying to record some beats and keyboards using Groove Agent 4 SE and say… Padshop or HAL… what is happening is
I create a 4 bar loop
*I select the correct IO of the MIDI
My Focusrite lets me hear the sound with no latency.
The mixer signals have no latency
The track however shows up the MIDI signals ( not sure that’s the correct term, the little dash things on a MIDI track. ) about 2 bars late and with a different length of sound and say I hit the key on my external keyboard at beat 1 bar 1 it will put a dash at say beat 3 bar 3 or something like that, and play back at that beat
It seems random…
Am I missing something?
If I record the VST instruments by double clicking on the track and using the keyboard on the left it works fine. but that’s not want I want to do. I want to use MY keyboard!
Any help would be appreciated and I can clarify if you need more info
2 bars off seems a lot more than usually reported so maybe there is something more wrong with your specific system…but try these “usual” fixes first and we’ll take it from there
Try use system timestamp in Device Setup/Midi devices
Make sure you don’t have auto quantise on (transport midi record modes)
Thanks for tips again Grim! I am checking out for the night here in Oz but I’ll try those ideas tomorrow and report back then. Yeah thought it was a bit weird. My IO latency is at 6ms, if that makes a difference. Zzzz
TBH I’m really not sure in what circumstance you wouldn’t want this checked and why it isn’t just fixed as enabled…would like to know if anyone has any idea about that?
Let’s face it axematt we have all been there when we started using Cubase. I had exactly the same problem when I moved from the Atari to a PC. Keep at it.