I’m trying to track down persistent crackling with Cubase (which doesn’t occur with PT8 - another issue in a separate thread there), and one thing I see is that the transport says there is lots of midi activity. The only external midi device I have is my M-Audio ProjectMix I/O and I’ll suspect it’s updating to often or something… I don’t know that it’s an issue, but…
Is there a midi event recorder in cubase (like the old sysex event recorder) that I could use to simply list the events cubase sees happen (like little bar next to the VU meter on transport described as “midi activity” in my cubase 5 book is always moving up and down at a rate of several times per second)… Seems odd…
I’ve used LatencyMon and dpclat.exe to verify that my system is pretty quiet otherwise… Don’t remember where I read about them, but they are really useful on win7…
Why not try enabling automation write and recording a MIDI track when you notice the activity? Then you could open up the Project Browser or List Editor to observe the MIDI or SysEx data being transmitted.
Thanks for the hints… I can’t record the activity, it appears to be driving out from cubase, again most likely to my mixer… I still don’t know that its an issue, and I’m leaning towards the occasional crackling being a combination of windoze hiccups and/or graphics overprocessing (seems like theres a lot going on and it gets way worse if I move a window while playing)…
As for Midi-ox, it seems like a great idea, except that I have to admit I can’t figure out how it works From what I can gleam, looking at the two midi ports to my mixer and the loopback port I added, there is no traffic on them at all… Which makes me wonder were cubase is sending the midi?
I’ve openned up a new project, and there’s no midi output, until I send something to a midi vst… Then the activity spikes (and stops when I do a midi reset)… And it does seem that in the empty project it stops, and adding some pure audio, the activity goes while playing, but stops a few seconds after playing is stopped (which is even odd in itself)… But I guess I change my mind an say it is probably not worth worrying about…
As a side note, I did find the Audio System options “Audio Priority” which I’ve set to boost, and clicked “disable cpu energy saving”… That seems to have tamed the clicking on the audio I bit… I hope
From what I can gleam, looking at the two midi ports to my mixer and the loopback port I added, there is no traffic on them at all… Which makes me wonder were cubase is sending the midi?