How do you make Cubase play notes AS you're entering the notation?

Dear Anyone.

NOOB here, so if it’s an easy answer for you experts, be nice!

I’ve got Cubase 12. I use Realtek High Definition Audio Codec and couldn’t make Cubase find it, so I got Asio4All and it’s found that fine. Remembering I’ve only had Cubase 4 days and don’t know what I’m doing…

I choose a VST and put it on a channel (or whatever the correct techie word is!) Then I select STAVE for that channel and start putting in notes with the mouse - but I can’t hear any noise whilst I’m doing that. If I select PLAYBACK for that channel, I then hear all the notes I’ve put in - but of course it’s complete gibberish because I couldn’t hear what I was doing.

What do I select so when I put a note on a stave it immediately plays the sound so I know I’ve put the right note in? And is it possible to see more than one stave on the screen simultaneously so if you’ve got - for example - 6 instruments going you can see all 6 staves so you can add notes to whichever instrument you want to, without having to close the current instrument and open another one? It’s just I find having to go through the close/open thing every time I want to put notes in a different instrument VERY destructive to thought patterns - by the time you’ve closed one/opened the next, you’ve forgotten what you were going to put!

Usually I use Quick Score Elite Level 2, which just lets you have all the staves open and in front of you at once, a much better way of working! BUT - it can only handle 32-bit VSTs and JBRIDGED 64-bit ones don’t always work that well. There’s GOTTA be a way of entering a note with a mouse and hearing it as you’re entering it in Cubase, hasn’t there?

Yours puzzledly,

Chris.

The score editor has a tool bar at its top. A possible item on this tool bar is “Accoustic Feedback”.
Kindly have a look at this page of the manual:

and then this one:

If the option is enabled you should be able to hear the note while placing it.