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Garbled MIDI Playback and Lag

Posted: Sun May 02, 2021 5:10 am
by aprilwine
I just bought a smoking fast powerful new laptop that should have no trouble running anything. I installed MTStudio and recorded a simple little MIDI piano track to play back using the default Acoustic Grand Piano MTSi instrument. When I play it back using the Windows Vista driver, the sound is staticky, garbled, and completely distorted (so are audio tracks). When I try the ASIO driver, it plays back fine, but then I noticed when recording a second track that there's like 1/4 second of lag between hitting a key and it being recorded, so I can't record two tracks in sync with one another. How do I make this work?

Re: Garbled MIDI Playback and Lag

Posted: Sun May 02, 2021 6:02 am
by André Giroux
Sounds like the buffering is set to high. With ASIO I set the buffer at 128 to 256 max. Anymore than 256 you’ll start to get latency.
Hope that’s it and resolves your latency issue

Re: Garbled MIDI Playback and Lag

Posted: Sun May 02, 2021 12:13 pm
by Support
aprilwine wrote: Sun May 02, 2021 5:10 am When I play it back using the Windows Vista driver
What version of MultitrackStudio do you use on your smoking fast powerful new laptop?
'vista' was removed from the driverset name in 2014...


Giel Bremmers

Re: Garbled MIDI Playback and Lag

Posted: Mon May 03, 2021 4:30 am
by aprilwine
André Giroux wrote: Sun May 02, 2021 6:02 am Sounds like the buffering is set to high. With ASIO I set the buffer at 128 to 256 max. Anymore than 256 you’ll start to get latency.
Hope that’s it and resolves your latency issue
Buffer size on ASIO is 10ms.

Re: Garbled MIDI Playback and Lag

Posted: Mon May 03, 2021 4:32 am
by aprilwine
Support wrote: Sun May 02, 2021 12:13 pm What version of MultitrackStudio do you use on your smoking fast powerful new laptop?
'vista' was removed from the driverset name in 2014...
Version 10.0. The name of the driver is Windows but the description mentions Vista.

Re: Garbled MIDI Playback and Lag

Posted: Mon May 03, 2021 8:59 am
by Support
Of course. Sorry, my bad :oops:

What audio device are you using? Is its driver up to date?


Giel Bremmers

Re: Garbled MIDI Playback and Lag

Posted: Sat May 15, 2021 4:03 am
by aprilwine
It says Realtek (R) Audio, and the drivers are up-to-date.

Re: Garbled MIDI Playback and Lag

Posted: Sat May 15, 2021 5:55 pm
by Support
Please switch to the Windows driver type, and make sure the correct devices are selected. Then send a report (see https://www.multitrackstudio.com/contact.php), so I can see the settings.


Giel Bremmers