The cursor is not always in sync, greggybud. There is a certain scenario where you play a MIDI file back, note an error, stop the playback, double click the track in the Project window so that the Key Editor opens on the second monitor and the cursor is at bar 1, not bar 45 (for example) where you stopped the playback. You need to press the spacebar on and off real quick to sync both cursors.
At least, I think that’s the scenario. I’m not in front of an open Cubase project at the moment to see exactly when the cursor fails to sync. Necromorbus says to make sure the track in question is not selected. I’ll try that. On the other other hand, we have so much going on in a project’s work flow that making sure the track your working on is not selected is nuts. It goes against the basic premise of a GUI.
There should be no scenario where the two cursors are not linked by default all the time, no matter what track is selected. If I missed something here, please tell me where in the Preferences I can change this. If it’s there, I haven’t found it. Thanks 
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