Midi Only Plays first 3 Notes

Welcome to the forum.
Your first problem is you're using two soundcards which both are less than recommendable for audio recording. At least the Realtek would be better disabled, so you could use WMD or even ASIO drivers (if such exist for SB). Realtek (usually) only understands MME driver, which is rather poor. If you can use WDM drivers with both of those, then it's not that big a deal.

Give more details, please. Does the playback (and cursor) just stop
without any other symptoms?

You mention "rendering". Does the halt take place during mixdown or bounce or just ordinary playback? "Rendering" is usually used for
bouncing the MIDI to an audio track.

When you export MIDI, do you mean you save it as MIDI file and then play it with the internal GS Wavetable synth (=what is producing the sound?)?

What are your PC specs? Do I understand correctly: Are you using 10 instances of TTS-1? Have you been able to run that many instances before?

Trying different values in Options->Global-> MIDI [Record->Number of Buffers and/or Playback->Prepare Using   might also help ( if MC has that dialogue).

If only exactly three first notes are played back every time, there could be a selection, loop setting or something you've missed.

Hope you'll solve it.

Hi Kalle, thanks for the feedback. The SB card handles WMD and so does the Realtek (it's an alc888 onboard device) - neither handle ASIO and when I tried MME MC would let me change back to WMD and I eventually had to uninstall and reinstall MC.

The Cursor continues moving but is about one bar behind what is actually coming out of the speakers.

Sorry for the use of "rendering" I mean Playback.
Yes when I say save as Midi I mean as a.MID file and I can then play it on Finale 2007.

PS is an Intel 3G Duo core on a MSI P35 NEO Motherboard.

Only using one instance of TTS-1.

Will try buffer and play back options once clean install.

Not exactly first 3 notes every time - between 1 and 4 but never more than 4.

checked loop settings etc nothing there.

Thanks in advance.

DJS

Is the OS 64-bit?

Hi all,

YES! it works. Itwas the Latency setting that needed changing and disabling the Realtek that fixed it. Many many thanks all forthe rapid and helpful response. All I need now is a hit tune and some great lyrics..... anyone got any ideas?.

also any recommendations for a new sound card would be gratefully received then I can do some research on what's right for me. Thanks again...

DJS