Whenever we watch quiz shows here at home, the answers to the questions are so easy.......if you know them !
I've had Cubase SE and I use Essentials 5. I only use it to house my VSTis as I record to a portastudio and a standalone DAW. And both times, being largely computer illiterate in 2004 and muzzy headed by 2009, trying to simply connect all the bits then get it to talk to my controller keyboard was a headache par excellence that took months, involving phone calls to Germany, waiting literally for hours on hold {when I did actually get through and that took two weeks of near constant phoning} and not being able to understand the technical advice given, even when I said explain it like you would to a 9 year old just starting with computers, reading the manual until all the words on the page turned to one black mass, wasting money going on a Cubase course in which the producer that ran it couldn't hook me up, asking lots of either music recording or computer savvy friends, none of whom could help, treading around the various music shops in the West end asking for advice and being spoken to like a bleedin' IT grand master
wunderkid, taking all my tackle up to a shop that kindly offered the help of their IT expert on the day he was in........
Cheese Louise ! What's not to get ???
The funniest thing is that both times, I managed by {humongous} trial and {plentiful} error to get the things connected. I don't know how ! I couldn't tell you now. The second time was most embarrasing as I'd taken all my tackle to the famous Chappels of Bond Street and did what I had been doing for months in trying to show the IT guy and VST woman how it just would not connect and work. And I pressed a key on the MIDI keyboard to show how there was no sound. And I heard sound ! I was mystified.
It's been great since, though. And it was in my quest back in late 2009 that I was directed back to HR which I'd forgotten I'd joined about 4 years previously. So some good came of it !