If while trying to record from your keyboard nothing is getting recorded, 
it means you're not getting MIDI Input from your external Keyboard. This 
may happen because of one of the following reasons:

    *  The cables are hooked up wrong. MIDI In must go to MIDI Out 
       and vice-versa.

    *  Your soundcard drivers are not installed or setup incorrectly, 
       preventing MIDI from being received.

    *  Your Sound Card is not capable of handling MIDI. You may find this 
       hard to accept, since you never had any problems with "sound" before. 
       Most likely, you never used your Sound Card for MIDI as you were only
       playing Audio. The famous sound from AOL: "Welcome You've Got Mail"
       as well as all those 'silly' Windows sounds are nothing else but 
       "Digital Audio" 'Sampled' files. They simply are not MIDI. 
  
    *  Your external MIDI Keyboard is not setup properly in order to Transmit 
       MIDI commands. Please consult with your Keyboard's manual for proper 
       Setup.
     
       
     
     

See also: 'MIDI Input problem - No MIDI In'
______________________________________________________________________________