I am using Cubase 7.0.5 and have been having a weird midi playback issue. I am using a midi track with Toontrack Superior 2.0. When I hit the space bar to play back the midi, all the notes that are within a beat or 2 play simultaneously then a beat or so of silence then it picks up playing on time. When I stop play back and start again the same thing happens. Audio is unaffected.
Are there any preferences or settings in Cubase I am missing that could cause this?? It just crossed my mind to check if other VSTi’s have this issue to see if it is limited to Superior.
Since getting a new computer, I have run into this issue with my sample based VSTi’s.
My guess is that the HD is having a hard time streaming samples fast enough upon the initial playback being triggered. I plan on upgrading mine to a HDD/SSD hybrid in the future to see if that helps.
I don’t have superior drummer, but most of the streaming players have tweaks for pre-loading or RAM management. You should mess with those settings if SD has them.
Superior Drummer caches to Ram (at least I have it set to do so) so the HD shouldn’t be an issue here. I did find a post in the Issues section where this has been reported with other VSTi’s. I’ve never had this issue before and it seemed to start after I installed 7.0.5 so I am not sure if it is that or some other system issue that crept up at the same time.