Version X6.

When I am on a midi track and try to plug in an instrument is get a message about needing to do something with asio and monitoring. When I press the keys on the keyboard of the instrument it looks like the volume meter shows something happened but i get no sound from my speakers. I have never figured out what I have to do with this software just to get it to work. I don't know why it is shipped without it working and making me struggle to understand what the heck it is talking about and never getting to compose or use it. It seems to expect me to be highly educated on what I need to do instead of being set up to work.

Does anyone know what I need to do to set up the midi instruments to play, be monitored, recorded and the results to be bounced and saved? And why it isn't set up to work in the first place? It seems to me I should be able to use a program to record and compose, not set up and struggle with.

Thank you.

Douglas