Spent 4.5 hours looking for the answer before this.....help.

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Using Cubase 5.1, Presonus FP10 firewire recording interface, and midi controller.
I can't get the VST instuments in cubase to playback or monitor at all. I can record midi tracks just fine, and I understand the concept of midi. Also, when I set the output of a midi track to microsoft GS wavetable synth I can monitor the track, but only through my computer (unless I set the default playback to my firepod, though my sound devices outside of cubase). However, the problem still remains that I cannot monitor or listen to VST instruments, because when I set the output of the midi track to "Drum -GrooveAgent One" (This is the specific VST instrument I am trying to use; it came with Cubase), I again hear nothing. What am I doing wrong?
 
What do you have the output of the synth routed to? Should be going to the FP10.
 
Also, I botched my first install when I first got cubase and never installed the samples and had the exact same problem. So are you sure you installed the samples.
 
It took me a while to figure out how to route the midi right - I think I record the midi track then route that output to the VSR track? Or maybe I just copy the midi data to the new VST track. But that might not be your issue.
 
Please don't give up on me.

The samples are installed, and I have the output routed to the FP10 in the VST connections settings. Maybe the problem is that I can't seem to get the MIDI track to record as an audio track at all. Groove agent shows up as what looks like an instrument track, but it doesn't have a record button at all.
 
Well if you can hear the midi track though the MS Wavetable the problem isn't the MIDI track.
 
NeilChampine said:
The samples are installed, and I have the output routed to the FP10 in the VST connections settings. Maybe the problem is that I can't seem to get the MIDI track to record as an audio track at all. Groove agent shows up as what looks like an instrument track, but it doesn't have a record button at all.
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You are actually dealing with two seperate outputs with MIDI synth tracks. I don't know about Cubase but this is how it works in Sonar.

You apparently have already figured out to route the output of the MIDI track to the synth. Then you route the output of the synth to the corresponding audio track that is created when you inserted the MIDI track. Now route the output of the audio track to the FP-10.

In Sonar the way you get the audio waveform onto the audio track is by freezing the synth. Then you can bounce the audio in the original track to a new track to save it as an audio take.
 
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