Hey man, thanks for joining the thread and validating my insaneness 
First things first, I’m actually on W7 and not 8.1
Unfortunately, I have not solved this issue, and have dismissed it as reality due to the following: Upon looking through every single session ever, I’ve always had the issue, and it’s never been bad enough to notice until i looked closely, so I’m just leaving it and manually moving the parts.
This is a bug. Plain and simple. This is not how the DAW is supposed to transmit midi. I understand, there has to be SOME kind of latency, since the DAW and outboard midi hardware cannot predict the future, but 365 samples worth of it? That’s pretty high! Not to mention, as the other poster had validated, even doing a midi loopback produces out of line midi. That’s just not right.
I am about to pass this on to steinberg as a bug. that’s what it is. plain and simple.