So... this should be easy: MIDI Outputs

I feel like this should be a really easy question (but what do I know).
 
So I've got my keyboard wired to my Cakewalk soundcard by MIDI cable and I've got my hearing-cells connected to the soundcard by headphones. But I can't hear the Input Echo (realtime feedback) from the headphones like I do with audio.
 
The only sound I get is from the speakers when I select the "Wavetable Synth" as my output, but that's got crazy latency so I don't want that.
 
How can I make the MIDI sound go through my soundcard when I select it as the track's output?

I think he means "ears".

MIDI is not audio. Its computer instructions. They have to instruct an instrument in order to produce sound. Insert a softsynth in the synth rack, i.e., TTS-1 and set the output of the MIDI track to the TTS-1 and you will get audio.

you don't choose a softsynth from the OUTPUT menu of the MIDI track and you won't hear anything from MIDI until you send its output to a synth of some kind. 

MS Wavetable synth is a softsynth in the Microsoft windows operating system and that's why it shows up as an output on the MIDI track.  but don't use it.  use a SOFTSYNTH.

INSERT>SOFTSYNTH>TTS-1

Try starting there.

but you need to learn about softsynths.  do the tutorials in the help files.  specifically tutorials 4 & 8 are on softsynths.

how exactly are you recording?  are you trying to record the audio or are you trying to record MIDI?

it doesn't make sense that it would sound different from you playing the keyboard through the softsynth as opposed to playback after recording.  they should sound the same.

are you recording on a MIDI track, INSTRUMENT track or an AUDIO track? 

when you say the dots show up at the start of every note, are you looking at the track view or the piano roll view?