I haven't been able to trigger anything with MIDI in BB 2016 yet either. Well that's not totally true.. I can trigger general midi sounds only. When I boot up and open a new song, if I play the keyboard, it sounds like a piano plays (with high latency). If I simply go to the MIDI/Audio Plugin window and click on MIDI settings and just close windows, (not changing any actual settings -- it was set for ASIO from a previous session, and routing midi to the Thru track - even though it says for ASIO this doesn't apply, not sure how that makes any sense, since it is indeed routing it somewhere), and then suddenly the latency becomes low. This is 100% repeatable.

1) Boot computer, open BB2016
2) start playing keyboard to hear some midi patch's delayed audio on thru track
3) Open the windows: Options->Midi/Audio Driver->Audio Settings->Audio Drivers
(was already saying "ASIO (Always)" and those two checkboxes "Use VSTi/DXi synth" and "Route MIDI Thru to Midi Driver" boxes were both checked previously)
4) Click OK on the Audio drivers window, and now the audio is not delayed anymore. It's as if it was being set to MME on its own even though I'd changed it to ASIO in the past and even though the settings visually reflect that when I open those windows on startup.

But then when I try to use a plugin on the thru track (sample tank, ivory, whatever), there is no sound at all. But I can see the level meters moving on that thru track when I play the keyboard. Just no sound! If I click the faux piano keyboard in whatever VST I'm using, it indeed produces sound.. and those same level meters move.. but just nothing when I play the controller (except for the moving level meters on the thru track).

So.. I have no idea what to do with this software yet. $800 for nothing so far!

FWIW, I am using an RME Fireface UCX and the Kawai VPC1 keyboard, Windows 10