And that’s what should be hooked up to your sound system for playback (or headphones or coming out of your computer’s speakers). That’s what Cubase will recognize as your audio in/out. The computer either came with one or you bought a better one that you either installed inside or is external in a rack or sitting ontop of your desk somewhere.

Only midi (commands, not sounds inside the keyboard that need to get into cubase via audio). The keystation is only a controller there is no audio interface built into it. Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 2.5 gHz What should I do? Should there be an M-audio driver that I can setup Cubase to use? Is there some way to set up direct monitoring to reduce the latency I hear when recording? Am I even asking the right questions? I was expecting to see an M-Audio driver in the list that way I could perhaps decrease the buffer size to get the latency down or perhaps setup a direct monitoring of some kind. But the latency is too high (~20 ms) and it makes recording anything very unnatural. Now if I use one of these default drivers, for example the “Generic Low Latency ASIO Driver” I can get my Keystation to work with Cubase. I checked Device Manager and the M-audio driver is there and installed without any issues. Unfortunately when I go into Cubase and go to Device Setup, I can only see the default ASIO drivers that come with Cubase (“ASIO DirectX Full Duplex Driver” and “Generic Low Latency ASIO Driver”). I formatted my computer, installed Windows 7 64-bit, installed Cubase 64-bit, and then installed the M-audio USB driver 5.0.1 in that order. I am totally new to this so if something here seems weird or doesn’t make sense please correct me because my understanding of this process is minimal at best. So recently I wanted to try composing some songs so I invested in Cubase 6 along with a Keystation 88es for sequencing.

M audio keystation 88 driver