Weird Thing Recording MIDI Drums
I've been recording my band with MIDI drums lately. I always capture the audio out from the e-kit, as well as the MIDI, so I can make tweaks based on what I hear. The most recent song we did is a pretty simple thing, drum-wise. It's a basic eighth note hi hat thing with snare on the 2's & 4's, and kick on the 1's and 3's, sometimes doubled up. It's a little faster, but nothing insane, tempo-wise, maybe around 160 BPM.
Anyway, listening back, the audio drums sound right on, but the MIDI sounds a little off for the first quarter of the song, especially the high hat - there are all kinds of little stutters in there. I don't have the MIDI input auto quantizing - heck I don't even have the tempo set, since I was planning to beat map it later.
Any idea what might be going on here? I'm using a slightly older laptop, but it managed to capture 5 separate audio tracks at the same time as the MIDI without any problems. And on the other 3 songs we did before, this was never an issue. I expect we're up for a re-do either way, but I'd like to avoid having this happen again.
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