Some of the most common causes include a large buffer size, a slow sample rate, the wrong audio driver, faulty plugins, overloaded CPU, poor specs on your computer, or problems with your cable. The first thing you need to do is find out what is causing the latency issue.
Now, you may be wondering “Why does my keyboard lag” and “How do I lower my recording latency?” There are many reasons why your MIDI keyboard could be lagging, and many simple solutions.
This lag is called latency in audio terms and often has nothing to do with the MIDI controller at all.
A MIDI keyboard allows you to channel through virtually any sound and play it in various pitches and keys whilst recording the sounds directly into your DAW.Īlthough extremely useful, MIDI keyboards come with their challenges, the most common and frustrating one being a lag between playing a note and the signal transmission. An important tool in every producer’s studio is a MIDI keyboard or controller.
