We experienced timing problems when we had a windows system (a long time ago). We had to set the latency up to 500ms to get a bit of stable timing. It's bizare because an 15 year old atari is powerfull enough to give stable Midi clocks and handle a whole studio, but a P2 350, 64M ram can't???? (You still got work B.Gates). Well, We trashed the PC and bought a Mac, end of story, end of problem. But nevertheless here are some things on timing for ya.

1. Bigger latency improves timing; Favor midi timing over audio too. If possible disable the audio part of your sequencer to get more power to the MIDI part.

2. Cubase favors the first 8 tracks in your arragments and always sends these first. Place timing sensitive parts there.

3. You can sync cubase from a drumcomputer. Normally these machines have very stable timing clocks, far better as most PC's. With a bit of luck your computer is stable in following the clock.

4.Get a Mac or an Atari or an Amiga. (They all tend to have better timing as a PC (not that PC's can't get decent timing)

5.update drivers.

6. get a new motherboard (It's our guess (after the problems we had) that the motherboard is the source of the problem. Probablly some minor incompatebillities with the chipset.)

7.Get some Prozac.