[Nomy]

Hello all.

Sorry to dive straight in with a question after joining, but this little glitch is driving me mad.

I am very new to all things Midi and PC. I have just set up my little studio and I have:

XP Pro running on 2GB Ram, 6600 Dual core.

M-Audio 2496 soundcard
Triton LE keyboard used as Midi keyboard and use of it's sounds
Cubase SX3

Now, I managed to get everything talking fine. I was shocked to be honest! I've put down about 4 audio tracks and my first MIDI track for the bass guitar went without a hitch.

Now I'm trying to record the drums and this is where I am getting the 'glitch'. I am not using the drum editor, I am just recording a 4 bar loop in the track window. I recorded the bass drum, no problem. I then recorded the snare and hi hat, again no problem. But then for no apparent reason, I noticed that when I hit a key on the Triton, there was about 1/4 second delay before I heard any sound during play. As soon as I stop play, the sound is accurate again. restart, and the problem is there again. keep pressing start/stop a few times and eventually it falls into time again. That's why I describe it as a glitch, because there is nothing in particular that I do that cures it. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't! If I look at the Midi in activity meter, it would certainly seem that the data is coming in on time, but somewhere along the line of Midi out, it gets screwed up. The pre-recorded Midi data is fine, so that's going to and from my Triton ok. It's only when I am playing along side it.

Just for your info, I have local note off on the Triton set to 'off', I am recording the Midi data via the Triton, the Midi then comes out of Cubase back into the Triton, the sound from the Triton drum program then goes to my mixer and out to the monitors.

I do have another problem that may or may not be related. If I start to record a Midi loop from Bar 1, the sound will cut out about 1/2 second before the end of the loop, but then restart as it loops from the beginning. if I set it as non loop, it plays fine. I get round this simply by leaving a couple of bars at the start. As I say, it may not be related and there is some rule somewhere that says not to loop Midi from bar 1, but the tutorial DVD I have for SX shows creating a loop at bar 1.

Sorry to waffle on and on, but I wanted to give you as clear a picture as possible.

Any ideas would be most welcomed!

<edit> I just noticed that if I knock off the loop and set it to play before the recorded data, then I can play along with the music fine, until it comes to the four bars of Midi drums, then it plays out of sink, but is fine afterwards! But again, it will sometimes respond all ok....ARGH!