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Originally Posted by schwa
Cubase is pretty clearly not doing a pre-roll. If I had to guess I’d say it was playing at an arbitrary fast play rate until the play head catches up with the offset. The advantage is that everything gets played, the disadvantage is that the play rate is arbitrary - the first two clicks have essentially random timing.
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I don’t think it’s an arbitrary play rate. I think it’s an offset calculation based on the distance of the MIDI from the play head. I’ll try to think of a maths example. At a dinner thing now.
For most orchestral situations where the offset is usually less than 150 ms, it’s a pretty transparent solution. Mostly this is to alleviate missing MIDI playback when tracking MIDI parts. Upon mixsown, just go back a bar.