Gary Shannon

Thank you all for your help. I'm definitely making progress now. I did use Cakewalk 14 years ago, but I sent my output directly to my old (now dead) Korg N5 synth. All this VST stuff is brand new to me.

@John Vere Thank you. I will check out those references.

Thanks. OK, I loaded an existing MIDI file and played it. It worked perfectly. I don't see the TTS-1 in the synth rack view, and I don't seem to be able to change any of the instruments. When I loaded an old Cakewalk WRK file I had from 14 years ago (the last time I played with any audio) I got no sound. Next I'll plug in my little Oygen 25 MIDI keyboard and see what happens.

Thanks. I gave that a try as you suggested and yes, a WAV file does play sound. But no instruments produce any sound.

I have also just downloaded and installed Cakewalk, and have the same problem. I went through every page of previous posts about this issue and watched every video and tried every setting, but I still am not getting any sound. As a total beginner I find it frustrating that tutorials for "beginners" start off assume we beginners know stuff we clearly don't know. Anyway, the only time I get sound is when I direct the output to "Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth", and clearly that's not coming from the soft synth.