Thanx for the info Johny Six string.I am having some more issues mayb you are soone can help with. Dont know if it is a vista problem or what. It frezzes up during recording and playback frequently. I have a 500gb harddrive and 3gigs of ram.with an amd 64x2 athlon processor. so everything should be more than enough to process fast enough. Sometimes it give me an error message saying there has been a major problem in cubase. Does this sound familiar to vista users? Idont know what to do its driving me bloody mad. Someone please help.