^this
you’re not - it’s not the same
same would mean that you understood the difference between a pad being hit and the corresponding difference upon that being sequenced back - that’s where the offset was to be found
your issue is evidently nothing to do with that and has nothing to do with an offset
you’re just noticing that the range the MIDI outputs is camped in the lower half of the midi range - as it always has been - this is not new, it’s centred around Note 36 (+/- 24)