No sound output thru headphones of midi-controller keyboard

Hi,
I'm new to Logic and am encountering the most basic of problems: I can't hear any sound from my headphones of the midi instruments played with my keyboard controller. I ran several searches in the Logic Discussions archives, but didn't find anything about this particular scenario...
My keyboard controller is connected with a USB input, and the drivers have been properly installed. I cued up a new project, set my audio preferences for headphones out, checked those settings via i-Tunes, then selected a software piano and laid down a track whose volume and notes are both registering fine. Everything looks like its working great -- I just can't hear the signal.
With this same set-up of my keyboard controller, I opened up Ableton Live and played a software piano instrument there, only this time I could hear everything fine.
I flipped through the midi sections in the User's Manual and carefully the scanned the Logic interface for something to toggle that I may be missing, but so far no luck.
Please tell me what I'm not doing! I know it's gotta be super basic...
Many thanks....
Chris
Message was edited by: Chris Fizay

Weird.... After typing my question above, I did 2 things: I toggled the parameter on my controller for controller-only mode (to mute its synth output signal) and I tried using a damper pedal on my controller, with mixed results, after which I shut it down and fired it back up again, only to find that I had lost the output signal coming from my audio interface headphones jack. When I transfered my headphones back to the original headphones jack on my computer, I heard a signal...after resetting my Midi drivers from the now non-working audio interface to the synth/controller.
I guess my question at this point is, as a newbie to MIDI, how finnicky is MIDI? Does it require more intuitive and careful fiddling than I'm accustomed to in just keeping my computer running from day to day?
Confused....
Chris

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