Been using Cubase 6 for years and in the last year I’ve noticed all my MIDI parts have this weird reverse latency. I can record a part on my keyboard completely in time, but when I play it back, all of the notes are ahead of the beat by a fraction (but a very noticeable fraction) of a beat. I can copy and move them all since it seems to happen consistently across all notes, but that’s super cumbersome and not precise to what I played anyway.
I have not changed any settings with the MIDI source or keyboard so I can’t figure out how this started happening, nor do I see a way to change settings in Cubase. The latency numbers listed with the driver have also not changed in years. The MIDI device setup looks to be in order.
Help! I can’t really record any keyboard parts until this is solved. At least not efficiently.
So I’m really stuck here. I’ve trouble-shot through everything I can find in the manual (including every mention of “latency”) and every component of the issue and it’s none of these:
What’s weird is that nothing major has changed with my system since it started doing this, and the files from 6mo ago with MIDI work and play fine. Please help! I am at a standstill with recording my new album til I fix this.
Using DirectMusic and Windows MIDI inputs, doesn’t matter which - issue remains. Using DirectMusic Project MIDI output.
Tried in Safe Mode, no difference.
So apparently this is a longstanding issue all the way through at least Cubase 9:
I haven’t seen any correspondence from Steinberg about fixing this on several threads detailing many people having this issue. Which leads me to thinking I need to manually adjust all my MIDI notes unless i can afford upgrading to the current Cubase. Which is effing tragic.
