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--></style></head><body lang=FR-CA link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi lists,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>A while ago I built a MIDI piano roll player<br>that can read old piano rolls and play them through its dedicated MIDI out.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>The unit has 2 parallel MIDI outputs. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>The first MIDI output is wired to a small Yamaha P50m MIDI piano module with speakers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>The second MIDI output is sending the same signal<br>to my Sonar X3 Pro DAW to record all the played MIDI notes<br>so I can save the song in a .MID file. Fine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>Here is my problem:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>When I listen and look at a fast playing piano roll<br>I can see all the notes on the paper roll are correctly playing<br>on the Yamaha module with no lags.<br>That means that my player CPU is doing its job correctly<br>and the MIDI output is reliable.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>But after recording a roll in my DAW and playing it back<br>using a piano plugin and noticed intermittent lags<br>recorded in the MIDI track.<br>I use a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 USB audio device with MIDI.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>It’s connected in a USB3 connector on my PC.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>And the settings in my Sonar X3 Pro are set to ASIO USB.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none'><img width=733 height=644 style='width:7.6354in;height:6.7083in' id="Image_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01DC48CF.BA6C92A0"></span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none'><img width=733 height=643 style='width:7.6354in;height:6.6979in' id="Image_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.png@01DC48D0.12C685F0"></span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>I thought this could be caused by some kind of timing precision<br>or ‘Snap’ option selected that should not be..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>The set timing was at ¼ in my last MIDI recordings<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>And maybe should be much higher (like 1/32 Triplet) ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none'><img width=452 height=589 style='width:4.7083in;height:6.1354in' id="Image_x0020_3" src="cid:image003.png@01DC48D0.CEFBFB10"></span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>I don’t know what to do with this issue..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:12.0pt'>I was thinking of using a separate app that would be easy and reliable<br>outside my Sonar.. But I think it’s not the way I should take.<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>