It's ok no problem... this community is full of people who will help you.

It is a bit complicated to explain every little steps... But I will try to guide you a little bit. You should get a quick book about Cubase and how to compose with it.

Get yourself ONE synth box (Supernova or Nova, or Virus..), and hook the MIDI OUT of the PC to the MIDI IN of the synthesizer.

Then, get a cheap MIDI CONTROLLER keyboard, hook it's MIDI OUT to the MIDI IN of the PC.

Then open Cubase VST 5, and click on a track. You will see columns on the left (Track, Chn, Instrument, Out...) right?

ok now, forget the tracks with the word "Master" in the Out column.. these are Audio...


click on a track, and select Channel 1 in "chn" and select an output device in the column OUT (it can say "SB Live OUT" or something similar.. depends on your MIDI interface).

You have to tweak around yourself... but you should start to understand... And isn't there anyone in your shop who can help?


Okay... if you press the controller keys you should hear the synth... if not, you have ot edit some MIDI options in cubase... but it would be long to describe everything.

Ah you also need to connect the AUDIO OUT of your synth to the AUDIO IN of your PC (and enable LINE IN in your sound options) in order to hear the synthesizer in your PC speakers.


Hope this helped you a bit. Sure there is a LOT to explain (could take a 500 pages book in fact!) but you'll probably learn a bit here to start your passion.