Omar, If you have a small mixer, just run the synth outputs into the mixer and listen through the headphones. You'll be hearing the synth respond to the MIDI messages as they rout from your synth, into Sonar, and back out to the synth. Works just fine. Dave Carlson Sent from my Dell Latitude E6520 using Windows 7, San Francisco Bay Area ----- Original Message ----- From: Omar Binno To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 11:51 Subject: [ddots-l] Re: input monitoring on midi tracks I think that's the step I was missing. So am i right in creating an audio track that's routed to the inputs where the synth is plugged into the interface, then route the midi track to that synth? ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Christer To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 2:49 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: input monitoring on midi tracks You can't monitor anything on a midi track, you have to monitor via its audio track... l8r ----- Original Message ----- From: Omar Binno To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 6:40 PM Subject: [ddots-l] input monitoring on midi tracks Hello, If I want to monitor an external synth in sonar from its midi track, don't i simply have to just turn on input echo on that midi track? I'm doing that, but I still can't hear the keyboard through sonar's input monitoring. Am I missing any steps? Thanks. OMAR BINNO WEBSITE: www.bigoproductions.net AIM: LOD1116 SKYPE: obinno1