At first I though I was playing really badly recording over and over again but thought to myself I can’t be THAT bad when every time I record, even when taking my time following the metronome at 95bpm, it sounds great while playing in real time but when I hit the play button, everything goes downhill the further bars I listen to. The midi goes way out of timing and sounds terrible.
I know it’s not my playing because I launched Reason and tried recording the same thing with metronome and the timing was great just as I was hearing while recording. Please, any help is much appreciated. I’m halfway through this song and want to finish it up. BTW, when I recorded the first half of this song, I did not have this problem.
I’m probably venturing into a shifting sands area on that one, as I never had such an issue. But FWIW, few hints :
In the Studio Setup > MIDI Port Setup panel, I would check the different Devices options, as well as the Use system timestamp ones. Maybe someting doesn’t match with your actual setup, here…
is the Automatic MIDI Record Quantize involved, at a point ?
Any tempo variations in the project ? I would look more closely at the Musical/Linear time base setting chosen for the involved track, if so…
EDIT - Added to this, you could also try the usual Cubase troubleshooting attempt : relaunching Cubase as ‘safe mode’ with the Disable program preferences option.
I noticed it was only that track I was recording effected and not the rest of the song. So I made a new track with a new instrument and I had no drifting issues. Likely that effected track had a parameter set wrong by mistake or something. I will try to reproduce the issue to pinpoint it’s origin so I know what to look out for in the future. But for now, if the issue is only with one track, making a new one is best.
If you have high latency plug-ins on the track it becomes too tough to play right. Try the button constrain delay compensation and see if you can record better on the original track.