cliffpc
ubw newbie
Joined: Apr 23, 2006
Location: Edmonton, AB, Canada
Posts: 9
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| Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:45 pm |
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Ahhh, I am not alone. I struggled with this for a week (with Nuendo and Cubase) and tried 3 different MIDI interfaces before I came across the solution. It was funny, I looked at the little lights on my MIDI interface blinking in perfect unison with my playing, but the recordings were way out of sync.
I think you have the same problem I had. Here is the issue, and I have highlighted the fix.
(From "Sound On Sound" www.soundonsound.com ,Sept 03, Mark Walker)
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Steinberg were keen to support real DM drivers for their Midex interfaces to take advantage of the improved MIDI timing that comes from locking it to the soundcard's clock, so Cubase SX requests this capability, using the DirectMusic component of DirectX 8 or higher (Win XP ships with 8.1). In the absence of available true drivers, however, emulated DirectMusic MIDI drivers appear inside Cubase SX, just as many soundcards get emulated DirectSound drivers with lacklustre performance if the developers haven't written proper versions.
Since any software-emulated drivers will always provide poorer performance than true hardware drivers, Steinberg incorporated a filter from SX 1.02 to stop them ever appearing as possible options. Unfortunately, some MIDI drivers seem to get incorrectly reported by Win XP, and the result is that with a few interfaces the real drivers end up being filtered out, leaving only the emulated ones as options.
This problem (which, among other interfaces, occurs with M Audio's Midisport 8x8 and MOTU's MIDI Timepiece AV) can be solved either with updated drivers, or by bypassing Steinberg's filtering altogether. To do the latter, find the supplied Cubase SX file named 'ignoreportfilter', drop it into the main Cubase SX application folder, then restart the application.
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In your case, the file 'ignoreportfilter' goes in the main Nuendo folder. When you restart Nuendo, go to the DEVICE options and try the non - "emulated" MIDI inputs and outputs. Be sure to apply the changes on each of the pages. I also disabled the emulated MIDI ins/outs so I don't accidentally choose them in recording or playback.
Hope that helps. Your MIDI timings should be around 3 to 4 m/s now.
Cliff |
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