I'm reposting this in more than one place because it's driving me crazy! I have two MIDI devices hooked into two different MIDI ins. I have a m-audio keyboard hooked into a Digidesign Mbox2. I also have a Yamaha drum kit hooked into a Steinberg M14. I'm running Cubase SL 3 and various Vsti's. So, when I lay down the track, the midi is put in just fine, so I know it's getting signal, yet the sound from the input comes out about three seconds late. When I play the recorded MIDI back it plays in sync with the play line. Why is there a lag in the sound from the MIDI input, and why does it only happnen when it's being played live and not recorded?

NO CROSS POSTING!!!!!!


Anyway, midi 'lag' (latency) comes from DMA buffer sizes. Play with these settings until you get what you want. The lag is not the actual midi data coming in, the lag is a result of what you want to play.

Setting a buffer size too big will cause huge latency. Setting a buffer size too small will cause your sound to be "choppy". The way I do it, is just to test. First I set the frequency I want to record (usually 96K) then I set the buffer size as small as I can and not get any of those "chops"

Although, on my current machine I have a ton of ram and a pretty decent processor, so I get a small buffer size with 0 latency at 96K.

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Although, on my current machine I have a ton of ram and a pretty decent processor, so I get a small buffer size with 0 latency at 96K.

drool drool

Yes, I was pretty amazed myself! When I tried it I had a "Holy Shit' moment.

I used to route one set outs of my Delta to "Hardware IN", and feed that through the monitor board directly, but now the 'monitor' button in Cubase has a use.

EDIT: Even singing or playing into a microphone is 0 latency. 0 milliseconds... I would live with 5,10 or even 20, but wow..