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It sounds as if your soundcard is not set up within Cubase to transmit midi. I take it you have appropriately connected the virus midi in/out to the SB midi in/out. Ok, from within cubase itself goto the audio options/preferences screen and see if your SB soundcard has been selected for midi. Sometimes sequencers default to some kinda Microsoft GM interface. F*$& knows what that is lol! But anyway.....check to see what Cubase is using as the midi interface.....it must be you SB soundcard otherwise your Virus will not recieve any input from you sequencer.

Another thing. Select audio track one from your new song screen. Next to the track you will see a little bow tie icon. Right click that so that you can change the audio track to a midi one. This will then open a little box on left hand margin of your screen. You should see a little box called 'Output'. I suspect that immediately under this box youve got 'Microsoft GS Wave....' selected. Ah! Herein lies the problem. Click on 'Microsoft GS Wave...' and select your SB card from the list! Now, when you use the midi track one in Cubase it will send and recieve data from your Virus etc.

This is all from memory...and im not a Cubase SX user. I keep my fingers X that this info has helped in some way. But if not dont dispair. There are some Cubase SX users here who will help ya.

Cheers

DS