recorded MIDI is pre-delayed

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guttadaj

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Howdy. I just took the plunge and hooked up my keyboard (Roland XP-50) to my soundcard (Turtle Beach Santa Cruz) so I could use it as a MIDI controller for easier MIDI recording. Adding 1 note at a time in my Cakewalk Piano Roll view was growing quite tedious! :rolleyes: Anyway, in a surprise move, I actually got it to work! ... sort-of :( The problem, though, that I'm having is that the MIDI parts that I record are being written to the track a bit earlier than I'm playing them. I know I'm no human metronome :D but I tried just recording a really simple track with just snare hits on the 2 and 4 beats REALLY paying attention to the Cakewalk metronome. The hits ended up on average around 200 ticks (at 960 ticks per qtr note) before the beats! Does this have something to do with the L-word :eek:? I don't really understand latency very well but it sounds like that kind of thing from what I've been reading on the subject. Anyone have any thoughts?

Thanks,
-Jeff
 
I didn't have that, nor shure your Cakewalk version... But there's a Time+ in your track view (Along with Vel+, Key+, Pan, Vol, etc...). I've never tried this for recording, but does it make any sense if this can affect the way you record MIDI ? Set Time+ to zero could help.

;)
Jaymz
 
Pre-delayed MIDI recording!!!

I am having the same exact problem! It is so frustrating! I just got a brand-spanking-new computer for my music and now this!! It seems inconsistant too. Sometimes it'll be very "pre-delayed" and sometimes it'll be almost dead-on and sometimes it'll be severly "pre-delayed". I think that it also drops out too. Because I did some tests. I recorded a semi-long track and then manually offset it so it would be on beat. But after a little while it gets off beat again, like it's dropping info inbetween notes or something.

I know it's not my sound card because I tried two different ones. I know it's not Cakewalk because it happens on Cubasis also. It must be a driver or XP or something else.

My system specs are:
2 gigahertz Athlon processor
1 gigbyte of ram
2 80 gigabyte hard drives
Windows XP SP1
Audigy 2 Platinum sound card
Asus motherboard

I'm going nuts 'cause I know it shouldn't happen with this system!! It worked better on my old system which was only 128ram, 550mhz, Ensoniq sound card. I'de appreciate if you or anyone else could share their knowledge with me as to how to correct this stupid problem!!!!
 
Hi. Just as an FYI - I took this over to the Cakewalk forum here, and the long and the short of it is that I eventually managed to get rid of the problem by lowering my latency. (I feel like the guy on that cholesterol-lowering drug commercial - I just want to tell everyone "I lowered my Latency..." :D)

-Jeff
 
Nice to hear you figured it out, guttadaj.

;)
Jaymz
 
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