Nicko

Liquidator - Harry J All Starts

Nice pic, but I'm not going to get an entry in this month. I'll be following as I think there's a lot of inspiration in the image. You'll all be pleased to know the turkey is already cooked though.

My Ding A Ling - Chuck Berry

Erm, Could It Be Magic - Take That

Classical Gas- Mason Williams

I don't practice I only learn songs. If learning new songs I will sit and listen - mostly with tab in front of me which may or may not be correct. In most cases it will be mostly right and I'll try to work out the notes that are missing (without a bass in hand). For me the most important aspect of learning a song is internalising the parts and structure and this is the key stage. I suppose it's ear training as well. Sometimes where the tab is so obviously wrong I'll try to tab it myself by ear. Then I'll try to play the song which might involve figuring out the fingering deciding whether to use a pick or fingers, changing the notes I thought were right. If I'm learning scales or modes I will only do it on guitar cos I might as well have the whole fretboard figured out and just forget about the top two strings when I go to bass but to be honest I don't do that very often. I'll sometimes come up with a song idea and have to work out what key/mode it's in and I think I've only ever consciously sat down and though "I will use ionion for this section and locrian for that" when I was looking for a specific feel.

Damn, I missed the vote deadline - it might have broken the deadlock but well done to the winners.

The Swiss rejected membership of the EU narrowly. I wonder if they are still whingeing about it.

Hounds of Love - Kate Bush

I'm afraid James got there first.

As described - I'll even post it for free.

As described - pay the shipping only.

Jump - Van Halen

Eels like Heaven - Fiction Factory

All about the Bass - Mehgan Trainor

Anyone who has been (un)fortunate enough to hear me putting words to music would realise I have no training, fail to hit the right notes frequently and don't even make up for it with a voice that is distinctive. It may not count as singing by some people's standards but that's what I call it.

Day Oh - Harry Belafonte

Dirty Dirty Water - Quo

The problem I had was not in what I hear when recording, its what I hear when I play back.

Thanks @lowdown, I've adjusted the buffer size. The latency shown on the interface window is significantly lower, and the issue I had seems to be less though not completely eliminated when playing an instrument on an audio track (I can see it on the audio track but not really hear it). Somewhat strangely there is no global defeat for the Latency Compensation - it's described in the manual and I just can't find it on a toolbar but I did find it on the track window where you pointed to. Possibly because I have a cheapo version of Cubase. Even stranger, with the latency compensation defeated anything played via the midi port is defeated so it looks like the compensation is double what it should be. I can live with it on the MIDi as I don't do anything too complex and can shift the notes manually or via the track delay function.

I only really use a tuner and an EBS MultiComp. I don't really use much compression but I use it to thicken up the sound a bit https://www.compressorpedalreviews.com/post/ebs-multicomp-dual-band-compressor

That's modern by the standards of the box I'm using.😀

By advance I mean shift to the right (ie delay it). Otherwise your understanding seems correct. I wondered if there were a latency compensation as there is in some DAWs but if there is in this version of Cubase I can't locate it and it's not detailed in the manual. There is an auto compensation and this could be the problem, but it cannot be adjusted you can only set a threshold. That only deals with VST latency and not interface latency. You may be right that it's simply me anticipating what I hear but I doubt I'm actually that consistent - especially across bass, guitar and keys.

Thanks S'manth The software and interface are 10 years old, and the computer is due a replacement but that is on hold until I move house. RAM is 8GB and I'll be looking to up this to at least 16GB as part of the upgrade.. I'd have thought that the issue would be more variable if it were a demand issue - increasing teh impact when I'm running more VSTs and less when I'm not which is partly why I'm baffled. I've noticed recently means I've always had the problem but not really understood what the problem was.

I'm using Cubase 7 LE Elements on a Windows 8 PC with limited RAM, via a Focusrite 2i2. MIDI keyboard goes direct through USB not via the interface. I've noticed recently that when record an audio track or play via the MIDI keyboard it's out of time with any track programmed through the piano roll, and this is the bit I don't understand, the audio is before the beat. If I advance the audio by 30mS I can correct the error but I really can't understand why it's not a delay. According to the device manager the input latency is around 20mS and output is around 30mS. Is it a latency issue or my poor technique (which seems remarkably consistent across instruments).