A half second is typical for a basic windows setup using MME drivers. This would be the default settings.

What synth is sending the MIDI and what synth is playing the MIDI (generating the actual sound) and what sound cards/interfaces do you have available?

Knowing these 3 things helps narrow down the answer a bunch (especially 2&3)



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