haha I know, I just find it amazing that anyone can actually use that program without a manual!

I made a bit of progress last night, connected the midi keyboard and got some sound out of it, and got the VST to work. The next bit is working out how to enter stuff in the sequencer when using VST instruments.

Now I've set up the midi keyboard with Cubase it seems to have messed up my audio settings - the setting for my keyboard is meant to be "ASIO MAudio Ozone", which is what I've had it on when using Reason. Now when I use Reason no sound comes out from anywhere although the level meters are lit so something is happening somewhere. The "ASIO Multimedia Driver" setting works, although it's a different sample rate, so presumably that's not good? The DirectX setting works but the manual recommends ASIO...and I can't get it back!

The existing settings probably work if Reason and Cubase were linked up, but 9 times out of 10 it crashes, or I get an error message saying the Reason engine isn't installed. Argh!

I really want to get my head round it though, the manual is hard going so I might see if there are any tutorials around, like a quick guide on how to enter in the various elements of a track, like synths, drums and samples. I was very tempted to uninstall it and just carry on using Reason, but if it's as good as everyone says, I may as well battle on...