where can I find the generic usb-midi driver?

five fathom wrote:
Hello All,

I'm having trouble with logic recording any midi signal as having latency. This is not the usual buffer question as I'm not concerned about a laggy audio playback when I depress a midi key - I'm more concerned about having logic record what midi I play exactly when I play it.

What exactly is it doing instead of "recording what midi you play exactly when you play it?"

Is it shifting notes at random? What is the problem?

What happens if you turn on low-latency mode and/or set PDC to tracks + instruments, and not "All"..?

What are your audio buffer sizes?

This is normal, and depends on a number of factors in both your MIDI and Audio setup. Read up in the Logic pdf (or paper -) Manual on Latency.

Read up on Latency, don't be a "rebel without a clue."
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxqljtom-petty-into-the-great-wide-openmusic

five fathom wrote:
How can this be normal? If logic can't track a midi performance accurately then that's a huge flaw... What are other artists doing to work around this? Mousing everything is not an attractive option.

MIDI is an old protocol, and not a very fast one.

Different audio devices and different audio device drivers take different amounts of time to process audio and bring it to the outputs, or to process audio that comes IN through the inputs and is recorded, resulting in different latency for different interfaces.

This is normal, and completely expected - once you've read up on the basics of computer-aided recording, which is why people are telling you to read up on "latency" in the Logic manual.

This is why Logic has come with latency adjustment for playback/recording and MIDI output (positive or negative) for years and years - another reason why people are telling you to read up on "latency" in the Logic manual.

😉

Standard setting in Logic is to take the reported latency of the audio interface driver, and automatically shift the recorded data to that amount of time earlier, to compensate for the roundtrip latency.

In addition, as I said, MIDI is old and slow.
Depending on what MIDI devices you're talking to, there can be quite a delay - so MIDI output can be shifted to earlier than the actual playback location in order to compensate for that lag.

If you add incorrectly configured recording latency, it's very easy to apparently record audio from devices "before" they've been triggered.

Please READ THE MANUAL SECTIONS ON LATENCY. If you had, YOU WOULD KNOW THIS ALREADY.

I thought you were triggering a sampler via MIDI.

You're triggering a SOFTWARE instrument sampler via an EXTERNAL MIDI keyboard.

Ah.

Gotcha.

Googling for "logic records midi late"
finds this:

http://www.logic-users-group.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1810

Well, if the OP had tried the few specific things I said in my post above, and reported back, we'd be there already...