Done with clicks and instable time when recording MIDI

Thalamus · Post by **Thalamus** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 3:15 pm

Ahhhhh, what a relief. I can now record MIDI without occasional crackle, clicks and pops.

For a long time, I though the problem was USB, Underpowered PC, RAM, the weather or even Dolly Partons fault, but the light of wisdom have now left me in totally happy MIDI tightness with no creative interruptions (sort of).

well, to the point... If your DAW of choice is Cubase SX or Nuendo, your OS is Win$2000 or XP, and your MIDI connections inside the app have the word [Emulated] in square brackets after its port name, AND (phew)you are having MIDI timing or stability problems, here MIGHT be the solution for you:

Go inside the root folder where Cubase is installed is a folder called "MIDI Port Enabler". Copy the file in there to the root folder (eg. "C:program filessteinbergCubase SX")

Now when you boot Cubase next time every MIDI connection on your system is available, not just the Directsound ones. The trick is to disable all emulated port (in the device setup/DirectMusic dialog...set show to "no"), and enable your original, nonemulated port in the Windows MIDI dialog. (set show to yes). From now on you are not going through M$ crappy DX layer (why is this made so anyway?).

Maybe I am stupid, but I didn't noticed this, even though it mentioned it the installer, and there is a text document descriping the problem in the root folder, maybe you didn't consider this a problem.

Hope I helped some poor people out there.

Happy sequencing.

By the way, I use a Emagic AMT8 MIDI interface.

Zer · Post by **Zer** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 5:49 am

using unitor with cubase is like usinge midex with logic...do not expect too much. They have been optimized for their sequencer.
You can quickly see the additional optimization switches in the sequencers for them.

mythalethe · Post by **mythalethe** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 6:29 pm

Thanks Thalamus! This fixed some timing weirdness I was having lately. (I knew I was playing beter than THAT!)

-mythalethe

Thalamus · Post by **Thalamus** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 6:47 pm

No problem, dude!!!

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 6:07 am

Steinberg have an article about this in their knowledge base (doesn't particularly add any more than what Thalamus said, though):

http://service.steinberg.net/knowledge_ ... enDocument

Royston

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Fri Nov 14, 2003 8:30 am

Thanks for the post,

I wonder why Steinberg would even have the bad emulated drivers in the first place? or why are emulated drivers in the default settings?