Topic: Superior Drummer falls out of sync with EZDrummer2 Midi Out

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Replied November 24, 2014 at 21:30 #1976037

JetX
Participant

I think I’ve found the culprit. It looks like Cubase’s ASIO Guard. Disabling it entirely or just on EZ & SD seems to make cycling work together.

Doesn’t help the dodgy timing however, even after turning off (All Off) Humanize in the Sound Engine setting.

Replied November 25, 2014 at 10:22 #1976043

Henrik Ekblom
Participant

The Humanize function does nothing to the MIDI and the timing of the notes, it changes what sounds the engine should play when a MIDI note is played.
Is it latency that causes the bad timing, e.g. the MIDI is played a bit after when it should be played?
Does this problem only occur in the Song Creator (e.g. are you playing the MIDI straight from the Song Creator’s previews of the different MIDI files) or are you playing the MIDI from the song track?

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

Replied November 25, 2014 at 19:38 #1976052

JetX
Participant

Thanks for that info on the Humanize function. Couldn’t find anything in the EZ2 manual.

No the midi is not playing consistently late, the timing is just wobbly, like it desperately needs quantizing.

It’s an Avatar midi file which I have dragged to the song track in ez drummer and repeated for the length of the song in hopes of using EZ to add fills and variations.
It plays beautifully off the midi track with Superior. Same with the audio outputs from EZ drummer. But somehow from the Midi Out of EZ into SD it’s losing it’s timing consistency.

Replied November 25, 2014 at 20:16 #1976055

Henrik Ekblom
Participant

Ok, thanks for the update. I’m going to check that, to see if there’s a bug somewhere…

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

Replied November 25, 2014 at 21:52 #1976060

JetX
Participant

Henrik,

It looks like you may be right, I’ve played with the buffer settings in Cubase and the shorter the buffer, the closer the timings between the two. What were enormous flams at 2048 samples are now minor at 768 (the lowest I can go at this stage with this song). I do believe that is the issue, so probably no bug. Just me hearing it out of sync and being thrown off.

Thanks much for your suggestions, really helped me for where to look. Didn’t even think of this since I wasn’t actually playing a controller.

Replied November 26, 2014 at 09:47 #1976080

Henrik Ekblom
Participant

Alright, nice to hear that you sorted it out. 2048 is a pretty big buffer size which will add MIDI latency. Sounds like a new sound card should be the next investment (or an update to ASIO driver, if you don’t use that already)

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack
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Superior Drummer falls out of sync with EZDrummer2 Midi Out

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