Sonar 3 pe is not making any midi sound. HELP!?!

[austere]

I recently traded in my FL producer edition for Cakewalk's Sonar 3 Producer edition.

I have a big problem: I am unable to hear any midi sound from within Sonar. I had the same problem with FL (there I could also not get it to play general midi sound).

When I play the same midi file with winamp it plays back perfectly. So my midi is enabled & functioning it seems.

All the tracks have channels, banks & patches assigned to them. And none of the tracks are mutted. The songs are composed using CakeWalk Pro Audio 9b with a Yahama XG wavetable upgradecard installed in that particulair computer.

the output for the selected tracks is MPU-401.
When I choose the midi outputs I have the choise between: midi-mapper or MPU-401. If I choose midi-mapper it will say that I did not choose a midi-output.

When I play the midi or .wrk-file in Sonar the little midi-activity-meter in the systemtray lights up. Well the right of the two red 'lights' blinks.


I would really appreciate it if someone could help me solve this problem! Thank you very much for reading!

what I have is this:
Window$ XP Pro
amd athlon 2400+
512mb RAM
currently using onboard sound. It's a realtek soundchip, I think. Financial limmitations.

[Patrick9]

I am not sure what is happening with your particular setup but a possible workround is to go to 'Insert /DXi synth' and choose the edirol vsc.
Then select this as the midi output on your tracks.

Hope this helps,

Pat

[Stupid American Pig]

As patrick says, you got to route the midi note data to some sort of sound module. Win amp and other media players use the crappy GM midi synth included with Directx.

In sonar you need to add a GM compatible Rompler (you can use the plugin version of the above mentioned direct x 8 synth which is the Edirol Vsc) or something better like sample tank