My First Post: Can't Hear My Oxygen 8 Options

[kidliquid]

Hi everyone-I'm a first time poster here, but hopefully I'll use this forum a lot. I'm also brand new to MIDI, having just bought an oxygen 8 keyboard, (which connects via USB) and installed oms and the keystation software that came with it. I can't hear the notes I record in protools, or any other audio software I use it in. It shows input from the keyboard, so I know it's communicating with the computer, but no sound.
OS 9.2.2.
Help?

[Synthetic]

i think you missed filarion's point... you see... midi itself doesn't carry a sound... the only way you are going to be able to hear a sound from your keyboard is if you run a software synth or sampler such as Reason, Absynth, Halion, FM7, and the list goes on. The notes you are recording in ProTools will never generate a sound unless you a) connect a hardware sound generator to protools using midi and then direct the recorded midi notes to the sound module or b) you run a soft sampler or synth with ProTools using directconnect such as Unity AS-1.

For example, I use a Yamaha CS6x 16 part multi-timberal synth... its a 61 note keyboard. I have it connected via midi and can play notes that record to ProTools or Logic. Since is 16 part multi-timberal, I can create up to 16 midi channels of midi data and use my synth to play back the data and record the audio output of the synth seperate from the midi data. This allows me to listen to my composition and if something is not right, I can go back and edit the midi data and re-record the audio again. So you see... the midi data has no sound only tells a hardware sound module or software sound module what to play and then you must record the audio output to get your sound from the midi.

The Oxygen8 differs from my keyboard by the fact that it has not internal sound generator and thus is consider a "controller" and this why you don't hear anything when you press the keys. If you wanted to actually hear the notes as you play... you will need to use software synths as mentioned above or sell the Oxygen8 and get yourself a Casio with midi input and output and then you can hear what you are playing and can use the midi data to play better sounds later.