Wow fizbin that’s completely bonkers.
If I draw the MIDI note into the sequencer, then hit record so that the VSTi is recorded onto my audio track, then the two events appear in the sequencer at the same time (but we already know that delay compensation works correctly for audio export, otherwise there would already have been a riot!)
It’s only when I record via MIDI keyboard that there is a distance between the two notes, in which case it looks exactly like xtigma’s screen shot with the MIDI note early. The exact distance changes depending on latency, which makes prediction of a compensating shift very difficult.
So there’s a subtle difference between xtigma’s test by (a) drawing a note in the sequencer with the pencil and (b) playing it from a keyboard… it’s the results from test (b) I’m most interested in 