I’m new to Cubase (long time FL user) so please cut me some slack, but I have a question about track delay. I work with sampled orchestral instruments which often have quite a bit of headroom before the actual transient of the note kicks in. As mentioned by many people, using negative track delay is great to deal with this problem.
The problem I’m having now is that when I’m actually recording MIDI, instead of drawing the notes in, I automatically try to compensate for the natural delay of the sample with my playing (as I think anybody would do). When I do, Cubase records the MIDI as normal, but when I play it back the negative track delay kicks in and my notes play back earlier than I actually play them.
Ideally, I would like Cubase to automatically shift my recorded MIDI notes by the same amount of time as I’ve set up the negative track delay, so that afterwards I hear it back exactly as I played it in. Is there a way to automate this? I would think more people would run into this problem, but I can’t find much online. It doesn’t require time travel or anything, I simple need Cubase to put the MIDI note a little later than I actually play it. Thanks in advance!
Select all events on your MIDI track with track delay and use the Nudge function to move them all at once applying the same amount of delay time. Afterwards just set the delay time back to zero and you are good to go.
If you want to record new material on the same instrument track then you have to do it before you record something new, of course.
Yes, i use the track delay, which works fine and as expected. I just want cubase to slightly shift midi notes that I record with my midi keyboard, because the track delay causes them to sound earlier on playback as well. I want to be able to still play in midi and have it play back exactly as I recorded it, but I also want to be able to quantize it if needed and have it still sound in time. Theoretically this should be possible, it just requieres cubase to automatically write in the midi notes a bit later than they are being actually recorded. Hope this clears it up!
I don’t think you can both have the cookie and eat it.
If you are recording your MIDI and adjusting your performance for the slow attack of the instrument, don’t use Track Delay unless you intend to quantize the MIDI.
Exactly the saying that came to my mind as well when I asked the question
Still, that’s too bad though, it doesn’t seem that difficult to implement and I think more people could appreciate this feature. Oh well, negative track delay sucked a whole lot more in FL studios so I’m still grateful for the upgrade