I want to go back to my old school ways, that have turned out many cd's of songs, both original and covers. The plan is to use my new Zoom R-8 for recording, the 24 channel board for inputs, instruments, etc. my somewhat old rack effects such as BBE, compressor, gate, EQ, etc. I am hoping to get the VL2 in the loop for harmonies. I will also be using Realtracks for songs etc. as backing tracks. I know it might sound lame but I am tired of fighting computer glitches which I am sure is my fault but I'm 60 and not able I guess to understand ins and outs..........The VL2 is great but in my new windows 7 computer can't get it to operate as in old XP computer. The midi track works fine, my vocals I can monitor but can't hear RB tracks, I tried many times to fix but..... so it's impossible to record vocal tracks. Thanks for listening to me ramble............

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