Re: MIDI hell
2018/01/07 16:22:52
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The setting also influence the delay between MIDI manipulation (f.e. changing parameters in MFX plug-ins on MIDI track) and resulting sound.
(Technologically) the setting comes from DX times, it should have no influence on VST based synth, but
(observation) practically it seems like triggering some bug in Sonar when hitting particular combination of ASIO buffer size and particular number. If 1000 does not work, 500 / 200 / 700 / etc. can help to prevent the bug happened.
MFX (and I guess Sonar internal processing) distinguish between "real time" MIDI which is delivered "as is", so as original MIDI events, and "played from the track" MIDI which is processed using the buffer size specified in this setting and represented differently ("Note On" followed by "Note Off" events vs "Note + duration"). VST has no such separation, MIDI data are processed using audio quantization. F.e. for 44100Hz ASIO buffer 256, that is ~6ms. And so any "preparation" over 100ms in advance should not produce any troubles. But as we all could observe at least once, that is not the case.
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