Random notes, latency issues..
Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 7:49 pm
Hi, I bought both Sonuus G2M and B2M so that I could use them as controllers for my vsts, but unfortunely after months of frustration, I haven't been able to make these work properly at all. I've searched in every other forum about problems with MIDI for a solution with no success, so I hope I can find it here.
I'm using Cubase 5, before that I was using Cubase 4 but it did not work either way. The system is a Windows XP SP2 (i'm not absolutely sure about the service pack edition, though) and the sound card I'm using is a Line 6 TonePort UX2. The MIDI connector i'm using is probably by Roland, i'm not sure, I got this from a friend and it was working perfectly with his MIDI keyboard. This cable is a MIDI USB, but there are two MIDI inputs, when installing the drive for this cable, you can either choose it to make one of these inputs a slave or not, honestly I find it very confusing that there are two inputs but maybe that is not relevant for what is going on..
When I plug in my guitar cabble in my Sonuus G2M, the Power light goes green and whenever I strum the strings on my instrument the orange MIDI light starts flashing as if it was processing and converting my guitar signal into MIDI notes. On Cubase, I open an instrument track, then Kontakt or any other VST and on the Input Routing I select Roland Serial MIDI Input.
Now whenever I start playing notes separately, there's a lot of latency and the notes reproduced do not math with the notes i'm playing at all, in fact, sometimes if I play only one note, the program reproduces multiple notes in a very erratic and random way. It is not even a problem of pitch, because if I stay on the same note, the notes played by the VST vary greatly even though i'm playing the same note over and over again, so I have no control whatsoever to work with these kind of bugs.
I've checked the drivers on my TonePort and they are up to date, all I can think of is probably the driver for my MIDI cable but I reinstalled it multiple times and nothing changed. I've also did something a while back to display all the drivers in Cubase, I don't remember exactly what it was, but for example, now I can choose between Roland Serial Midi Input and Roland Serial MIDI Input (Emulated), and that did not change anything either.
Is there any kind of tests that I can do to check what exactly is wrong? I've did many and many processes and exhausting attempts to fix these problems but I haven't got any close from solving this.
Please, I would like to know if you have any more ideas so that I can one day make work..
Thanks
Nick
I'm using Cubase 5, before that I was using Cubase 4 but it did not work either way. The system is a Windows XP SP2 (i'm not absolutely sure about the service pack edition, though) and the sound card I'm using is a Line 6 TonePort UX2. The MIDI connector i'm using is probably by Roland, i'm not sure, I got this from a friend and it was working perfectly with his MIDI keyboard. This cable is a MIDI USB, but there are two MIDI inputs, when installing the drive for this cable, you can either choose it to make one of these inputs a slave or not, honestly I find it very confusing that there are two inputs but maybe that is not relevant for what is going on..
When I plug in my guitar cabble in my Sonuus G2M, the Power light goes green and whenever I strum the strings on my instrument the orange MIDI light starts flashing as if it was processing and converting my guitar signal into MIDI notes. On Cubase, I open an instrument track, then Kontakt or any other VST and on the Input Routing I select Roland Serial MIDI Input.
Now whenever I start playing notes separately, there's a lot of latency and the notes reproduced do not math with the notes i'm playing at all, in fact, sometimes if I play only one note, the program reproduces multiple notes in a very erratic and random way. It is not even a problem of pitch, because if I stay on the same note, the notes played by the VST vary greatly even though i'm playing the same note over and over again, so I have no control whatsoever to work with these kind of bugs.
I've checked the drivers on my TonePort and they are up to date, all I can think of is probably the driver for my MIDI cable but I reinstalled it multiple times and nothing changed. I've also did something a while back to display all the drivers in Cubase, I don't remember exactly what it was, but for example, now I can choose between Roland Serial Midi Input and Roland Serial MIDI Input (Emulated), and that did not change anything either.
Is there any kind of tests that I can do to check what exactly is wrong? I've did many and many processes and exhausting attempts to fix these problems but I haven't got any close from solving this.
Please, I would like to know if you have any more ideas so that I can one day make work..
Thanks
Nick