Well... I have gone over and done everything that everyone has suggested I do. Still the same results. My last option is to look at Matt's idea - a bad cable, even though I bought it brand new yesterday. It is a "Supra MD 100" USB MIDI converter. As stated before... when I press a key on my MIDI keyboard the signal gets as far as the indicator light on the cable itself - but it stops there. I tried connecting a straight MIDI cable from the keyboard into the JV 1010 and the signal is going into it - the LED on the 1010 flashes when I press a key... I run another straight MIDI cable out of the 1010 into the MIDI IN port on the sound card... but still no sound. However, I would prefer to use the USB MIDI converter... and so I'm going to take this one back and get a new one tomorrow. I don't have anything to lose.

Bobby