Midi Question

I have an Ensoniq ESQ-1, an Akai Cd3000i, A Roland Alpha Juno 2 a Roland XP-30 synth, Reason 4, Sonar Home Studio 4, and an M Audio Firewire Audiophile audio/midi interface. My issue is that I love the sequencer on my ESQ-1 but for some Reason I cannot get all of my gear to play nicely together via midi. I can sequence my hardware together just fine but when it comes to adding Reason to the mix I always have midi problems. Everything will communicate and I can sequence everything on the ESQ-1 just fine but when it comes time to dump the midi data into Sonar in particular for Reason for some strange reason Sonar does not recieve any midi data. Can someone explain to me why this is. My midi connection is as follows

ESQ-1 Midi out to Firewire Audiophile Midi in Firewire audiophile midi out to Cd3000i midi in cd3000 midi thru to alpha juno midi in alpha juno midi thru to xp 30 midi in xp 30 midi out to esq-1 midi in. My ESQ_1 does not have midi Thru. I would think this is a sensible connection for my gear but for some reason it is not and I would like to know why it doesn't work the way I'd like it to.

*LOL*Glad I'm not the only one confused. I was actually typing a lengthy response with several options and then realized I wasn't sure what I was responding to!

Well, if I got it right I think the problem is trying to get MIDI data from the ESQ 1 to Sonar. If that's the case, then Sonar will aceept MIDI data from any MIDI device as long as the MIDI device is connected to a valid MIDI In port selected in MIDI devices menu. (Reason is just a rewire device of Sonar so whatever Sonar sees Reason will see too). If that is the problem then you need to check the MIDI in definitions in Sonar and make sure the ESQ-1 is actually sending MIDI data - consult its manual -

Obviously inserting Reason as a rewire device is not related to the MIDI data issue - Reason would be just a part of Sonar once it is rewired - so the problem should be related to how MIDI data is transfered to Sonar. That's why I thought about what he needs to check as I mentioned above. But now that I'm saying this I get confused myself.

What he said in the OP:

Everything will communicate and I can sequence everything on the ESQ-1 just fine but when it comes time to dump the midi data into Sonar in particular for Reason for some strange reason Sonar does not recieve any midi data.

He isn't clear whether the problem is only with Reason or with SONAR in general (which I guess he might be implying)...