Midi timing suggestion on recorded VST instruments.

Conman · March 21, 2012, 8:07pm

chase:

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Conman, I might be mistaken, but it seems to me that part of the reason for the friction that’s just arisen here is that your posts have seemed to ignore the OP’s notion of what’s going on. So …

1) Do you actually agree that a possible - or, perhaps, even a likely - reason for the MIDI notes being recorded early is that they were played early? — played early (probably, without conscious thought) to make their sound come in time with what’s being heard (whether existing tracks or the Cubase click).

– That explanation is what the OP and some others in this thread favour.

Suppose, for the sake of argument, that that explanation turned out to be correct. Would you then agree that it would be a useful option in Cubase to have the placement of the MIDI notes automatically delayed by however many milliseconds early the performer had to play the notes in order to get the VI’s sound to align with what was being heard? (It seems that Cubase ought to “know” how many milliseconds that would be.)

From seeing the OPs video and answering the part above highlighted. No. What the video shows is midi timing completely out of whack. Nothing to do with what played when. Looks like something is just putting the midi miles out and that just is not happening to many users.
However, other users (the other posters?) who see similar but lesser timing discrepancies might actually be seeing a different problem that might indicate that there may actually be a bug with the timings that is not apparent with purely musical Projects (ie: where the timing does not have to be critically accurate).
So far it doesn’t look to me to be clear where the problem lies, we just know it involves erroneous placing of midi notes.

Cubase hears a note on and places it according to when it arrived (post latency). Now if that note on is erroneously reported by the keyboard generating it or midi filters blocking the midi sysex etc. you might find that a confused Cubase could get a bit arbitrary about note positioning.