Dylan
Thanks, I appreciate your point about the controllers.
Cubase Padawan, My midi system is not the problem. I think this
happens in your studio too with your fine parallel PCI stuff.
Please prove me wrong, that’s what I’m waiting for.
This is an example:
I work on an orchestral piece of music, and the project is loaded with lots
of plugins and instruments. Now I want to record a take with
Vienna Grand Piano from NI. My current output latency is high say, 20 ms.
Recording works fine though and I manage to play along in good rhythm.
Now I listen to it and the piano sounds like it was played by someone
needy to go to the toilet.
But… if I
Turn the volume down on Vienna Piano and
Turn the volume up on my outboard digital piano which
has almost zero latency and internal speakers. Now I record again.
I turn up the volume on the Vienna Piano
again and listen to the recording. It sounds much better.
This is a workaround that works fine on recording piano,
but I don’t like it, because when it comes to drums,
strings or whatever quirky sound, using a piano sound is
no fun and doesn’t give you the right feeling.
If there is one fundamental thing I’d expect from a sequencer
it is that the playback sounds the same as you recorded it.
I’m using VST instruments alot and each time I find myself
moving notes slightly to the right before it will sound normal
or before I’m able to quantize it - it gives me head ache.
So back to my suggestion again. I think the cure is to move forward
all midi data (which should automatically
be done by the sequencer) when recording on VST instrument channels.
Maybe there’s a smarter or even more accurate way to put it?
Suggestions are most welcome.