niles:
That’s the point!
Take some time to do a very simple test and you’ll notice there is something “shifty” going on between exporting or recording the playback signal.
New project
Add Groove Agent One (Preset Pop Kit) + midi track
Play a bar of rimshots (c#1)
Export it 2 times
Import the 2 export files and phase reverse 1 of them
mute the Groove Agent
Hit play
- Result = NULL
Delete the audio files
Unmute Groove Agent
Record the output of Groove Agent to the 1st audio track
Stop
Now record the output of Groove Agent the 2nd audio track
Phase inverse 1 of the audio tracks
Hit play
- Result = not NULL
I did the same test with Studio One on the same hardware with the same ASIO driver and the export and the recordings of the audio both nulled.
In Studio One even the export can be nulled against the VSTi after you shift the sample -0.06ms
With Cubase that’s impossible because the shifts in playback are totally random.
So it has nothing to do with midi clocks or other HW.
Whether it’s a showstopper or not is not the questions. Different styles, different needs.
That’s exactly my point. I read somewhere that midi driver within win xp causing the jitter, but Im wondering why there is no randomization in other DAWs?
Has anyone test this in other OS? win 7 or Vista?