MIDI Sound Breaking Up

I'm having serious problems with MIDI breaking up and getting 'crackly' sounding and warbling when I try to play or record any MIDI in Logic Pro. I'm running 7.2 now, but it was happening when I was running 7.1.x as well.
I'm using a M-Audio Keystation 61es attached directly to the Mac via USB.
Please, any help would be great. Thanks in advance.

Thanks everyone, that was quick. I increased the buffer size and it seems to have helped.
Any suggestions on how high or low I should have the polyphony set?
Cheers,
GS

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