I think your understanding of what you should be able to do is correct.

From your description, I wonder if you are even hearing audio. It sounds like you are just hearing MIDI. If so, we need to know a few things:

What Build are you using? Help, About will tell you. Lots of patches have been issued.

In the Audio settings, what driver? ASIO, WAS, or MME?

What is your audio device for playback?


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