MIDI Recorded, No Playback

You have to set up a synth for midi otherwise you won't hear any playback. Midi does not transmit audio signals

Here is a link to a video that you should watch: http://cakewalk.com/CakeTV/SONARU.aspx/Get-Started
click on the inserting synth video. That should help you out.

Yes the video is in X1 but the only difference is where the soft synth Browser is located.in v8 go to the insert menu-insert soft synth and choose your sound there. It doesn't matter if you use keyboard, drums or other midi controllers as anything that has a midi out should work.

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If you're trying to hear the sounds from your Yamaha then you'll need to have it's audio outputs connected to your monitoring system somehow.

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if you want to use the actual sounds from your keyboard, then you don't need to record MIDI anyway.  record the audio output of your keyboard into your soundcard.
 
if you want to record MIDI, edit any mistakes then record the audio from your keyboard, you would record the MIDI (just use your keyboard's audio output or headphone output to hear what you're playing), edit the MIDI, then set the MIDI track's output back to the keyboard.  connect the audio output to the soundcard, set up an audio track to record the stereo input from the keyboard, then press record on the transport.
 
the MIDI data will be sent to your keyboard, the audio from the keyboard will be sent to the soundcard and recorded on the audio track.