Next up in the latency/jitter testing is Cubase!

If you don’t understand what this is, please read the introduction post (This article is being updated if/when changes are made!).

Other parts in this series:

• Daw v Daw 7.2 update, again...
• Pro Tools
• FLStudio
• Live
• Bitwig
• Mixbus
• Ardour
• DP
• Logic
• Reaper
• Waveform
• Studio One
• Conclusions

Contents

• Introduction
• 64 sample buffer
  • 64 sample buffer
• 256 sample buffer
  • 256 sample buffer
• 1024 sample buffer
  • 1024 sample buffer
• Data
• Conclusion
• Meta

Introduction

Read the introduction post. I have updated this post since it was originally published.

For Cubase I used a Sampler track.

No settings affected these results. (ASIO-Guard had no influence, among other settings).

Reminder, don’t trust dweebs on the internet. Do the tests yourself, or at least double check my data.

64 sample buffer

Reported Latency

• Input - 4.583ms
• Output - 4.354ms

64 sample buffer

256 sample buffer

Reported Latency

• Input - 8.583ms
• Output - 8.354ms

256 sample buffer

1024 sample buffer

Reported Latency

• Input - 24.583ms
• Output - 24.533ms

1024 sample buffer

Data

Here is a csv of all the data, including the config files used to plot it using deltafinder.

Cubase data

Conclusion

• Cubase experiences the “MIDI Jitter” problem being investigated.
• Cubase’s is the lowest, along with Waveform

Meta

This post took:

• 1 hour to mess with Cubase’s settings.
• 22 minutes to test.
• 30 minutes to write the article.