Hi

Thanks for your reply. I decided to stop trying to use the USB cable when I thought one of my MIDI cables might be damaged and THAT might be the reason why I couldn't hear what I was playing as I recorded.

However, I've bought a new cable and STILL must have got my wiring wrong.

Do you have to enable a switch or setting on a keyboard to let it know that you want to hook it to a computer ?

I have a Yamaha PSR-3000 and I have connected its MIDI OUT to the MIDI IN on my computer and its MIDI IN to the computer's MIDI OUT.

The sound card I have is a SoundBlaster Audigy with a breakout box on the front of the PC for easy access to the MIDI PORTS.

I have downloaded a Yamaha PSR-3000 instrument definition file and am testing the Sonar 4 Demo.

I have opened a new MIDI file and have selected :

INPUT = SB Audigy MIDI Port [9800]
OUTPUT = SB Audigy MIDI Port II [9800]

(I wish the software would call them "In" and "Out" instead of "I" and "II")

CHANNEL = 1 Yamaha PSR3000
BANK = YamahaPSR3000Bank126
PATCH = Vintage Strum

When I start recording I hear the metronome through my keyboard and the notes that I am playing. However, they are from the Grand Piano Voice (not the guitar I have asked for) and no notes are sent to the PC.

It would be great if someone could let me know what I have done wrong.