Midi is nit recorded in time !!!! And I am playing tight ;) !

Cubase
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Hi I have this problem that is really annoying me !
When I preview my instruments with my midi controler I habe no latency at all ( really not noticable ) but when I record the notes and I wanna keep my human timing everything is either shifted too early or too late on the recorded midi data! I mean I am really not that much off timing !
My Interface is a Focusrite 2i2 and cuabase 9, i7 920 quadcore cpu 2,9 ghz!

Also had this problem in Studio one but not in Reason when I tried the programs!

Thank you

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There can be multiple reasons, but the most obvious one would be, is Auto Quantize turned on? (See bottom left of the window).

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Thanks man, but thats not the reason unfortunately ;(

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There is a setting if to use system timestamp or not for midi - as I recall.
Try change that setting.

Another thing not long ago on forum was a guy having audio running on usb, interface was usb, and also used synths own usb midi connection. Solution for him was to get a separate midi interface, also usb, and use midi out on synth. Separate midi interface have better optimized drivers usually than what synth manufacturors accomplish.

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Ahhh thanks this system timestamp was the big problem !! That solved it ! Thank you !
For all other producers who encounter the same problem here is a nice solution page provided by steinberg !

https://www.steinberg.net/nc/en/support/knowledgebase_new/show_details/kb_show/midi-issues-on-windows

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Hey, thanks for the link.

While I don’t experience your problems, I do have some latency issues in some scenarios, and this article looks like good advice for the general health of the MIDI environment. I’m going to go through it as a checklist and make sure everything is optimized.

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Great! :wink: