robertn

take a cubase sx3 crash-course. in spite of what you might have been told, cubase is very newbie-unfriendly.

crash course getting sound out of cubase while importing midi files.
1) import the midi-file.
2) press F11 for vsti's, click on the dark bar next to 1 and choose EWQLSO (silver, gold, whatever your flavour is).
3) when the sampler is loaded, load in an instrument (by again, clicking on the bar next to a number, i'd suggest number 1).
4) back to the midi file. click on the track, then on the left of the screen there are lotsa things concerning this track showing. in the top of this list there are buttons like, mute (m), solo (s), read (r), write (w) and other thiongs like, volume, panning etc. etc. when you don't see this, you can 'unfold' this 'menu' by clicking on the bar top-left which has the midi-name written in it bold.

ok, look for in: and out:. 'in:' probably says midi input or whatever, doesn't really matter unless you're recording midi on this track, which is not relevant right now. the 'out' though, we need to change though, click on the bar next to 'out' and select EWQLSO or whatever synth you've loaded in the vsti-load-thingy (F11). also, makes sure the channel is set to 1 (since you've loaded the instrument in the sampler on 1).

i hope this helps and i didn't just waste 5 minutes of my life typing this.

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getting latency down could (in most cases) also be done, check the 'device manager'. you do use an asio-soundcard right? if not, you should try the asio4all drivers, which will most def. get your latency down by numbers.