Hi Casa,
If you want to hear the Virus, you connect the Virus outs L/R to the 828, and then open up a
Audio Channel in SX (
Stereo) and click the little
monitor icon (next to
record icon).
You also have to make sure that the inputs that your stereo audio channel is set to, corresponds to the inputs (on the 82
that your Virus is plugged into.
Now, you can D/L a Virus patch script for SX, which you place in the Cubase SX patch scripts folder (in the active section). Then when you add a new MIDI device, name it KC etc, and the KC sound banks will show up. I think you also have to select the MIDI port as well in the MIDI device section.
OK......Now, open up a
MIDI channel in SX, set the in
ort 1 (KC), and out
ort 1 (KC). Are you Mac or PC? With Mac, there is a thing in utilities calles Audio MIDI Setup, and here you can set up the Virus, name it etc, and also hook it up to the 828 MIDI ports. I dont know if this needs to be done or not, but I do it anyway cos it looks cool. You can also test your setup from here to make sure everything in communicating correctly.
Anyways, by now when you press a key on the KC, you should see MIDI activity, and you should be hearing sound through the Audio channel in SX (Which may need to have the monitor button activated). There are also a few recommendations in the Virus user manual that relate to using the Virus with a software sequencer. These have something to do with
Lo-Page/Hi-Page Im not really sure, but you can just read the manual for that. Also make sure that SX is
NOT filtering any important information from the Virus (Check SX MIDI preferences for MIDI filter section)
It would be usefull to have a small mixer with a few stereo line channels, so you can monitor your synths and control the output from the 828.
Hope this helps, good luck!
Jase