O.K. Yes you are using regular MIDI tracks.
Your 1st screen shot shows us which audio inputs are available (e.g. which socket of the Audio6 you plug your guitar intoā¦ has nothing whatsoever to do with the BFD, whose audio output goes to the main output of Cubase, which in turn, goes to the stereo output (presumably 1 & 2) of the Audio6 via the USB cable.
Maybe we need to explain, briefly, what MIDI actually is? (in itself, it has nothing to do with audio 
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Can you picture a mechanical player piano (that plays, all by itself, by means of a perforated āpiano rollā, where the holes allow the mechanics to open and close)? Well, MIDI is merely the software version of that (thatās why, when you open Cubaseās MIDI Key Editor window, it even looks like a piano roll ).
So, the data on a MIDI track does nothing more than tell the receiving instrument which notes to play, and when, and for how longā¦ it has no way of knowing (or even caring ) which instrument that data is being sent toā¦ if there were such a thing as a MIDI washing machine, it might be programmed to switch to āfast spinā whenever it received a MIDI note of āmiddle Cā 
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So, the BFDā¦ has a MIDI Input (ready to receive data telling it which notes to play), and a MIDI track has a MIDI output (which sends out that āpiano rollā data). (A MIDI track contains no actual audio )
So, in the Inspector of a MIDI track, there are two fields, one for MIDI in (the incoming signal, which, in your case, could even be left as ānot connectedā, seeing as how you donāt have an external MIDI keyboard with which to actually play an instrument in realtime).
And the other field is the MIDI Output (i.e. the destination for that piano roll data). So, in this case, it wants to be routed to BFD3- MIDI In (i.e. routed to the input of the BFD3). Using the exaggerated example from above, it could have been routed, instead, to āWashing Machine - MIDI Inā!
Now, as for the audio that the BFD is generatingā¦ in your 2nd screenshot, you see a folder track named āVST Instrumentsā. Click on it, to open it, and inside, youāll see another folder track (dunno whether it will be open or closed) labelled āBFD3ā. This is where the audio from the BFD is actually happening.
As regards the MIDI track, the routing that we see in your 2nd screenshot is almost correctā¦ the Input is wrong (could cause a MIDI feedback loop)ā¦ set it to anything other than "All MIDI Inputs or āBFD3 MIDI Outā (in fact, since you donāt have an incoming MIDI keyboard, safest bet would be to set the input to āNot Connectedā.
But you say that, even in the 2nd screenshot configuration, you are still not hearing the BFD?
Try a little experiment (if it works, it will sound horrible, but at least weāll know that there isnāt just silence )ā¦ load another standard Steinberg instrument into the VSTi rack, and change the output from that MIDI track to be now routed to that instrument instead. If all is working correctly, this instrument should now be trying to play the notes from your MIDI drum loop. Do you hear anything or is it still silent?
Open Cubaseās Mixer window. Do you see any activity on the Main Outputs? (there is no reason why you shouldnāt .
If you are seeing meter activity on the Main Outputs, but not hearing anything, then the problem is with the monitoring.
Please upload another screenshotā¦
In your 1st screenshot, that window is showing the VST Connections - Inputs. Please show us a screenshot of the other tab, āVST Connections - Outputsā.
You say you can hear your guitar, but I have no way of knowing, at the moment, if you are hearing it through Cubase, or directly from the Direct Outs of the Audio6. So, once again, play your guitar, and see if you see any activity on the Main Outputs of Cubase.
In fact, please also upload a screenshot of your Cubase Mixer window.
). Are you talking about MIDI drums being played live (and wanting to be recorded), or a MIDI track already containing the data?
