Bad timing when previewing a VST with my QWERTY keyboard

Help, Support & Bugs
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When I load a VST and try to use my QWERTY keyboard to play the VST (to come up with musical ideas), the timing is extremely bad. There is a lot of latency, and the timing between the notes is inconsistent, so it isn’t just a matter of all the notes being late. The timing between the notes is not accurate to the input timing.

I have never had this problem with other VSTs, so I’m not sure what the problem is.

Does anyone have any tips?

Computer: MacOS M1, Ventura 13.2 (22D49)
Renoise version: V3.4.3

2

What particular plugin is causing the issues, also what are the soundcard latency settings in the preferences?

3

The plugin is Arturia Pigments. I tried AUMidiSynth (I think it’s a stock Mac thing? not sure) as well.

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4

Sync offset is only relevant when linking to another daw right? Related to ableton sync? I have it set to 0 ms here in windows 11. Can you check if setting it to 0 changes anything?

5

There are a couple of threads now of users that have some plugin that causes lag in Renoise.

I uninstalled SSL Flexverb and Drumstrip because they caused lag, but now my system is lagging again. It seems like my new alternative for Flexverb is causing it now. Relab LX480.

Not good.