Sampler Control - Continuous Loop - Latency?

Cubase
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I placed a sample in the Sampler Control in Cubase Pro 14, and set Loop Mode to Continuous.

The sound plays when entering a MIDI note, but when the sound loops back to the start there is about half a second of quiet or silence before the sound resumes.

The playhead in Sampler Control doesn’t seem to match with what I hear.

Yes, the sample is trimmed to be audible at the start.

I’m using an external DAC - no audio interface.

I’ve tried:

  • the DAC’s ASIO driver (3.5ms input latency ; 5ms output latency)
  • Steinberg ASIO driver (10ms / 20ms)
  • ASIO4ALLv2 (10ms / 20ms)

They all have the same behaviour

It’s worth noting - I haven’t noticed any other latency issues ever in Cubase.

I checked the AMP envelope and it’s at max volume while the loop occurs - so it’s not that.

Any ideas what’s going on here!? Thanks

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No matter what anybody tells you… what you call DAC is your audio interface.

It could be that the amplitude envelope is set to run longer than the sample or that the sample contains some silence at the end.

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Yes it does have some silence at the end. I suppose that explains it, but . . .

What is confusing me is that the playhead doesn’t align with the audio I hear.

I realised that this only occurs when I have Audiowarp on

Is that normal? Thanks

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The playhead in Sampler Control is not necessarily accurate. On my system it can be all over the place for rather short samples and I try to ingore it.

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