When i open up a VST there is a long delay before i hear the note from when i hit the key…
I know i can reduce buffer size and all that, but its not enough and i dont remember having this problem in cubase 7 or before…
“Direct Monitoring” is greyed out, but i assume that would be able to solve my problem??
I am running
10.9.5.
3.5GHZ Intel 7 IMAC
Apollo THUNDERBOLT
Any ideas???
thank you
peder
Hi Peder,
Not sure if this will help because we are on different platforms!!!
I was having exactly the same problem and, after a little investigative work, I found out that it was because I had several active inserts in my Stereo Out bus.
By passing them didn’t work and I had to remove all my Stereo Bus inserts to get back to zero latency on both midi & audio tracks.
Maybe this is what’s happening with you because this wasn’t an issue with earlier CB programes, it started with CB 8
I hope this help, good luck 
Jim B
Direct monitoring is a function of our audio interface that Cubase just allows control of. If you’re not using an interface then you don’t have direct monitoring and if you do you might have to control it from the interface software so nothing unusual in it being greyed out.
BUT asuming your problem is with vsti playing with a midi controller it will make no difference. It only passes audio signal from mic or line inputs direct to outputs with no latency. A vsti is processed within Cubase so can’t take advantage of this.
As suggested you probably have something else adding extra latency or you may have some other problem.
A quick check is to click the constrain delay compensation button and try again…if this drops latency then you certainly have a latency inducing plug somewhere in your chain (that this button simply disables temporarily)
(and in any case Direct Monitoring isn’t available on Mac, afaik)
I too was having this problem with plugins on the stereo buss. As soon as I removed them it was fine with unnoticeable latency