MIDI tracks cause massive lagging

[daveydaveydavey]

I have no idea why this is happening, but if I create a MIDI track, with or without a soft synth/output/what have you the entire program slows to a crawl. If I delete the track everything goes back to normal. It has made recording MIDI an impossibility and its driving me crazy. I searched the forum but I haven't come across anyone with quite the same problem, does anyone have any ideas?

Protools 2018.12
windows 10

[albee1952]

What happens if you use Instrument tracks instead?

[daveydaveydavey]

It's the same. It seems to be just the presence of a MIDI clip

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by daveydaveydavey

I have no idea why this is happening, but if I create a MIDI track, with or without a soft synth/output/what have you the entire program slows to a crawl. If I delete the track everything goes back to normal. It has made recording MIDI an impossibility and its driving me crazy. I searched the forum but I haven't come across anyone with quite the same problem, does anyone have any ideas?

Protools 2018.12
windows 10

Why would you not have the output of the MIDI track patched to a softsynth? How do you hear the sounds?

[daveydaveydavey]

I'm not sure what you mean. The issue is not with making or hearing sounds, the issue is that the presence of a MIDI clip slows the entire system down. I don't really use soft synths ever, I route MIDI out to my synthesizers so where the clip is going is kind of irrelevant.