[sdiy] Reliable MIDI recording app for PC.. Or my Sonar X3 Pro DAW is not set correctly..

[Roman Sowa]

How about using some old program written when quality of the code still 
mattered more than graphical appearance and collecting user data? For 
example MidiEditor from Markus Schwenk.
I use it (rarely) for editing single MIDI notes, but it also does 
recording MIDI.
What might be appealing to you in this project - I think the piano roll 
notation is the only way it can show notes

Roman

W dniu 2025-10-29 o 17:37, Jean-Pierre Desrochers via Synth-diy pisze:
> Hi lists,
> 
> A while ago I built a MIDI piano roll player
> that can read old piano rolls and play them through its dedicated MIDI out.
> 
> The unit has 2 parallel MIDI outputs.
> 
> The first MIDI output is wired to a small Yamaha P50m MIDI piano module 
> with speakers.
> 
> The second MIDI output is sending the same signal
> to my Sonar X3 Pro DAW to record all the played MIDI notes
> so I can save the song in a .MID file. Fine.
> 
> Here is my problem:
> 
> When I listen and look at a fast playing piano roll
> I can see all the notes on the paper roll are correctly playing
> on the Yamaha module with no lags.
> That means that my player CPU is doing its job correctly
> and the MIDI output is reliable.
> 
> But after recording a roll in my DAW and playing it back
> using a piano plugin and noticed intermittent lags
> recorded in the MIDI track.
> I use a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 USB audio device with MIDI.
> 
> It’s connected in a USB3 connector on my PC.
> 
> And the settings in my Sonar X3 Pro are set to ASIO USB.
> 
> I thought this could be caused by some kind of timing precision
> or ‘Snap’ option selected that should not be..
> 
> The set timing was at ¼ in my last MIDI recordings
> 
> And maybe should be much higher (like 1/32 Triplet) ?
> 
> I don’t know what to do with this issue..
> 
> I was thinking of using a separate app that would be easy and reliable
> outside my Sonar.. But I think it’s not the way I should take.
> 
> 
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