Novation BASS STATION 2 KEYBOARD!!!

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Originally Posted by TweakHead

Yep, but in my case it's better to send midi to a synthesizer from the sound card, instead of the keyboard, which is a novation sl mk2. Don't know why, but the timing is better that way. And some sound cards, like RME, have a rock solid world clock which is very reliable.

Don't know about software integration on synths, since I don't own the TI but the C instead. But it's kind of natural, I guess. What you change on software has to be sent some way or another to the hardware to update the patch, so a little lag feels natural to me.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding things (been away from hardware for too long), but I think the host (Cubase) is the source of the timing in my case. Maybe there's a way I could use the clock on the Saffire Pro24?

I can kind of understand a little lag for MIDI messages in general, especially something like bulk sysex data, but updating the tempo seems like such a simple and common task that it should be something like sending X/Y coordinates from the mouse through USB to the motherboard (i.e. instantaneous).

Oddly enough, using the UltraNova editor, I can hover the mouse cursor over the virtual cutoff knob in the VST, then use the CMC-AI knob (Cubase hardware controller) to sweep the cutoff, and it feels just as fast and responsive (maybe even a little more so) than using the dedicated filter knob on the hardware board itself! That's a signal going from a third party controller, through the DAW to the plugin, through the sound card back out the USB port to the Ultranova, and I'm guessing the polling required would be much more frequent than a bpm tempo change.