Very Confused W/ Virtual Instruments Options

[JOLTINJAKE]

hi, i have an edirol midi keyboard hooked up to an imac, and the imac has cubase on it. i also have an MAudio Duo hooked to the computer, which i can use for recording live instruments. now heres where the trouble starts.. when i try to record midi music onto cubase with the edirol keyboard, i see the little red and green bars showing the incoming signal, but no sound comes out.

someone recommended that i check my virtual instruments, but after reading the manual, i still have no clue what to do. i think cubase has some built in bass and percussion virtual instruments, and i thought i had those set up right, but there was still no sound coming out. ive tried selecting all the different output options it gives me, but still no sound comes out.

if anyone knows anything about this stuff, please help me!!

do i need to download/purchase virtual instruments from somewhere? am i missing a piece of equipment that allows me to hear the music?

thank you very much for any assistance you can give!

[Synthetic]

it sounds like your midi is coming into Cubase ok but... it sounds like you don't have the midi track assigned to anything as you noted. I don't work with Cubase so not sure how to do it but basically, you need a soft sampler, vst instsrument plug or whateever Cubase uses for sound assigned to the track which your midi is coming to.

Just to make sure your sound output is correct... I suggest trying to record some type of audio signal and play it back. If you see the audio waveform and see it playing but no sound... then your sound output for the whole app is not right. If you do get sound from the audio playing back... then the above problem sounds related to just setting up VST plugs to play your midi which I am no help with since I have never used Cubase. I use Logic and this is what must done in Logic for midi control to make sounds in the Logic app. I assume principles are the same for both apps but they probably do it a little differently.