Help: No Sound Ubuntu Studio 18.04.2

Hello, I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. When I launch pavucontrol I get some parsing errors but it launches - when I look at the output devices I have only have device listed: "Dummy Output"

I can confirm that I have an onboard HD audio controller and it's enabled in the BIOS. Can anyone help me troubleshoot this issue ? Thank you in advance !

lspci -nnk | grep -A2 Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:1c20] (rev 05)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller [1462:7678]
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:1c10] (rev b5)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport

4.4.0-101-generic #124-Ubuntu SMP Fri Nov 10 18:29:59 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

more os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="18.04.2 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS"
VERSION_ID="18.04"

Additional information:

sudo lshw -c sound
*-multimedia UNCLAIMED
description: Audio device
product: 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1b
bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
version: 05
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:fe600000-fe603fff

You should contact Ubuntu Studio for support on this: https://ubuntustudio.org/support/

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Make sure Backports PPA is on your system

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntustudio-ppa/backports
sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade