Midi latency

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2016/05/12 10:54:07 (permalink)

Midi latency

Hello, I am using Sonar X3 to record some songs. I am finding that when I record anything with Midi it sounds fine when I am recording the actual performance but after when I go to play it back and listen to it in the mix my midi performance is lagging behind and I have to perform some heavy Quantize to line things up and that different parts of the performance need different amounts of quantizing.
I used a Roland TD30 kits to record some drum parts with Addictive drums 2 and it was very badly off when I played back the performance but while I recorded the performance everything sounded great.
Is this normal or do I possibly have some settings that need to be tweaked? My drummer has recorded on a Pro Tools system he said and never had this experience so I started wondering what am I doing wrong.
Any help or tips are greatly appreciated.
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    Re: Midi latency 2016/05/12 11:27:28 (permalink)
    What size are your MIDI prepare buffers in Preferences? you might want to try taking them to 512 instead of the default 256 see if that helps.

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    Re: Midi latency 2016/05/12 13:36:29 (permalink)
    What audio interface, driver mode and buffer size?
     
    Is that interface set as both Playback and Record Timing Master in Preferences > Audio > Driver Settings?
     
    Are any other clock sources or A/D interfaces involved in the hardware setup?
     
    Are you monitoring the Addictive Drums output from SONAR while performing or direct-monitoring the TD-30 module?
     
    How late is the MIDI against the timeline on average in milliseconds before you correct it?
     
    Do you by any chance have a non-zero Timing Offset set under Sync and Caching in Audio preferences?

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