Cubase 5/Yamaha UX16 Latency issues... please help

[kyledude56]

I'm going nuts.

I'm new to home recording. I recently picked up a USB-MIDI Interface (Yamaha UX16) (I read on amazon only the UX16 works for Yamaha keyboards) for my Yamaha P95 keyboard, which I'm trying to use as a midi device in Cubase 5. I'm having what seems to be latency issues.

While using the standard ASIO DirectX Full Duplex Driver (whether or not I turn on the moniter option), I can hear the keyboard coming through my speakers when I play it, but at a delay of ~1 second. It's so annoying. I already went on their website and got their latest Driver (I have windows 7 professional 64-bit), but I'm starting to get confused about which Driver I should be selecting in Cubase 5 wnen I plan on using the MIDI keyboard anyway...

I have an interface (Focusrite 2i2) also set up in Cubase 5, in case my built in one isn't good enough and I need to run through a better interface, or whatnot. Although I don't even know if that works with the keyboard seeing as that is MIDI, and the Focusrite 2i2 only has inputs for XLR and 1/4".

Like I said, I'm relatively new, so I've been at this for 5 hours now and still nothing. I can't tell if it's a software issue (Cubase 5), Interface issue (UX16), or hardware issue (Yamaha P95 digital piano). Can anyone please help? X_X

 

[Mo Facta]

You should be able to use the UX16 in conjunction with your Scarlett 2i2. I often see people confusing MIDI and audio drivers when in fact they are two different things. Your Scarlett 2i2 does not have MIDI i/o but this is not a problem since you have the UX16. So, the solution would be:

1. Install the latest driver for the UX16
2. Install the latest ASIO driver for the Scarlett 2i2
3. Select the Scarlett ASIO driver as your audio driver in Cubase 5 Device Setup
4. In the Scarlett control panel, select a low buffer setting of around 256 samples/buffer or less

You should now be able to get low latency while playing your keyboard.

See, the bottleneck is not your UX16, but instead the native Windows ASIO drivers. You needed to switch to the Scarlett 2i2 drivers to get low latency audio.

Hope that helps.

Cheers

 

[kyledude56]

Thank you so much for the reply!

Alright so I plugged in my Focusrite 2i2, and set Cubase 5 to use it, and changed the latency to 1 and 4 ms, with no effect; same delay coming through my speakers. Could it be a Cubase 5 and Windows 7 issue?

 

[kyledude56]

Another discovery, after doing exactly what I said I did in my previous post, if I leave Cubase 5 open and then play some other sound (via spotify for this example), when I go back to Cubase 5, I can't hear anything. The keyboard doesn't even make sound through the computer and playing back previous tracks also produces no sound. Any thoughts? X_x