Basic, Basic Question

V-Studio with Sonar X1 - MOTU 5x5 MIDI Interface.  MIDI sound modules conneted to MOTU via MIDI and connected to V-Studio audio interface.
 
MIDI sequence runs, but I can't hear anything from MIDI modules.  Faders (on screen and on V-Studio) are all up.  MIDI ports set correctly in Track Inspector.  Speakers connected and monitor level turned up—I can hear audio loops in Sonar, but not MIDI instruments.  Also cannot hear virtual instruments.
 
There must be some simple set-up I need to change.  What am I missing?  Thanks.

The MIDI tracks in question are set to output to the ports and channels correct for the hardware synths.  I am wondering if there is something basic in the audio interface or Sonar X1 global settings that is wrong.  Running the sequence makes no sound.  When I bang ont he keyboard, I see MIDI lights flashing but don't hear anything.

Hey Beagle, thanks.  Actually, I have been using MIDI since there was such a thing and was using Sonar 2.2 to sequence MIDI and run RealGuitar/RealStrat before I moved off an external recorder to X1/V-Studio.  Struggling to figure out if there is some global MIDI set up incorrect in Sonar or if it is something to do with the inputs in the interface.  I will mess around some more and see what i can figure out.

By the way, I am a Ft Worth person also.

I am having some technical issues with the set-up of Sonar, V-Studio, and plug-ins—it was all preinstalled by Sweetwater on a "Creation Station" 64-bit machine—but I think the issue in this case is a knowledge gap for me.

Left and right outputs of a MIDI sampler (Kurzweil) plugged into inputs 3-4 of the V-Studio (1/4" phone plugs).  In Sonar I created an audio track and for input selected V-Studio Stereo 3-4, but still hear no sound.

I am sure I will feel quite stupid when I understand what I am missing here.

By the way, no issue getting plug-ins (e.g. Fab Four, Ivory II, Vienna) to play as simple instrument tracks, so  it is the audio input I am struggling with.

Thanks

Thanks for your patience and help on this.  I will check it out as soon as I am in front of the console this afternoon.

Track 9 is a Kurzweil PC2R MIDI Track. I see MIDI signal happening on the track.

 
So the PC2R is a keyboard synth, right? Is that MIDI track echoed too so that the MIDI gets back out to the Kurzweil's sound module, or is the Kurzweil using Local Control? SONAR will echo MIDI automatically by default if the MIDI track has focus. If not, you need to force the input echo on.
 
Do you see signal in the audio track meters with it armed, and can you record it and play it back even though you don't hear anything while recording?

Issue finally resolved.  Thanks for the great help.

1-Your question is not dumb, but I did have audio outputs connected.  (Although I have certainly been frustrated in the past over a failure to notice some simple thing—so it does happen.)
2-Problem in the case had a number of causes: (a) the MIDI interface was flaky so I went back to my trusty M-Audio 4x4; (b) MIDI ports were not set correctly on the tracks in Sonar (my stupidity); and (c) there are intermittent issues with Sonar and audio drivers.  I have a work-around for this last issue, but Sweetwater is still analyzing the root cause since they did the software installation (Sonar/V-Studio, Ivory II, Vienna, Fab Four, and Creation Station 64).

Different things happening at different times made it hard to diagnose the problem, but I think I am OK now--and thanks again.