korg triton & mbox pro2

[jaimeparedes]

I have been using the korg triton le in my studio connected to a mbox2, but suddenly yesterday the signal from the keyboard is a little late, the others instruments are on time even audio (4 channels) and if I use some piano from xpand or other plug-in sounds perfect, so I think the problem is the midi information between korg and mbox, I don't have to much experience dealing with the midi settings from protools but may be something about midi input device.....any suggestions???
thank you friends.

[5454stevef]

I have been using the korg triton le in my studio connected to a mbox2, but suddenly yesterday the signal from the keyboard is a little late, the others instruments are on time even audio (4 channels) and if I use some piano from xpand or other plug-in sounds perfect, so I think the problem is the midi information between korg and mbox, I don't have to much experience dealing with the midi settings from protools but may be something about midi input device.....any suggestions???
thank you friends.

It's not clear from what you say exactly how it's connected - are you going midi out to the triton, then monitoring the audio by bringing it back in to pro tools thru the Mbox? What kind of track are you sending it to?

If you can be more specific as to how it's connected it would be helpful.

Depending upon the source of the delay, Pro tools has settings for "midi offsets" to deal with problems like this. This allows you to set, either globally (the offset applies to all midi outputs) or on a track-by-track basis, the timing between midi and audio playback. It's mostly used when using software instruments because hardware instruments don't exhibit much noticeable latency - you would set the offset to some negative number (expressed in number of samples) which essentially moves the midi playback that many samples earlier in time to compensate for latency in a software instrument. This doesn't affect the midi track itself, just the difference in time between it and the audio time base.

But I can't think of any reason why you'd need midi offsets for a hardware instrument unless you're bringing the triton in thru an audio track rather than an auxiliary.

Sometimes the easiest work-around for these kinds of things is to record the instrument to an audio track - if you decide at some point in the future to replace the sound you can do it easily as long as you don't ditch the midi track. If you record in real-time from a hardware instrument I doubt you'd have to mess with offsets at all.

SF