MIDI and Audio Synchronization

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In Cubase VST/32 5 when I have MIDI and Audio playing at the same time they never seem to be synchronized together.

-I have my song set to 120 tempo.
-I imported a Fruity Loops 3 drum beat that I made at 120
-When I play the song my drum track is not synchronized with the rest of the MIDI.

-Scott
 
mm, pretty weird. It seems you have some latency problems. What PC do you have. Also check the preferences of Cubase. How much % of your processor do you use and what's your buffer size. Changing those settings can often help a lot.
 
definitely latency problems.. sounds like the classic soundblaster live mess up..
 
Actually, there's a Cubase bug that a lot of us are waiting for a fix on. That may have something to do with this, especially if you're using something like the Midex 3 or 8 "time-correcting" MIDI interfaces:

http://linux1723.dn.net/forum/Forum16/HTML/000541.html

It causes MIDI tracks to be shifted in time after recording and before playback, and it _is_ a pain in the ass.

I was recording an E-drum track yesterday, monitoring the Cubase click and the reference audio tracks in real time. I finished the track, and went back to give it a listen- and Cubase had decided to time-shift the MIDI forward by about 2.5 measures!

It was an easy workaround, because I could just grab the track and slide it to line up properly- but that's a pain to have to do. It also appears that the offset varies- it is often 0, in fact. But you have to check each track carefully. It's not clear what causes the tracks to slip, although power-cycling the Midex seems to help fix it for a time...

For the time being, I'm always recording some lineup clicks in each MIDI and audio track, until they get a solid fix for this. It appears to have cropped up in 5.1...
 
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