punch in recording stops short

I'm sending a Native Instruments S88 MIDI controller playing a piano plug-in to Logic (Mini M1) and my sustain pedal drops out but the recording continues until it stops recording BEFORE the punch-in is finished. Previous two tracks had the same settings - no problem. I exit the project, start a new project and try to replicate the error. Everything works fine. I go back into the previous project and replicate the error. Is this some kind of resource issue? Do I need to beef up some buffer or something? Is there a problem when I record too many identical setting MIDI tracks? I mean it LOOKS like I ran out of processing power.