Steve, here is how I setup eight audio tracks which is my Sonar 8.5 startup. Sonar starts with a tempalate file called normal. There are several AAA tempalate files you can pick from. This is on a xp machine, so I don't know if this works for other operating systems. Run my computer. Open up your c drive. Find Documents and Settings and open it up. Look for the folder usually the name of the owner of the computer. In my case, the folder name is Mark dew. Open this folder. Now look for the folder My Documents and open it up. Next find the folder Cakewalk and open it up. Then open the folder SONAR 8.5. Next, open the folder Sample Content. Here is where the tempalate files are located. Press the letter n until Jaws says normal tempalate. Rename this file normal.old Now press the letter a until Jaws says AAA eight audio tracks. Rename this file normal. Next time Sonar is started 8 audio tracks will be loaded. There might be a better way, however this is how I do it. Hope this helps. Mark My WEBSITE http://www.markdew.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Wicketts To: ddtots Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 8:34 AM Subject: [ddots-l] back to basics simple template on sonar start up. Hi Guys, A friend of mine who lives in Ireland has just purchased Sonar 8.5 and Caketalking. She needs just an 8 audio track template on start up. Could someone give me a step by step on how we do this? Also She armed an audio track yet when she pressed R it said not recording, why would that be happening. She's a novice and I'm trying to help through Skype but I'm certainly not a tutor, I just about get my Sonar 7 to do what I need it to do lol. Any help gratefully appreciated. Steve W __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 7139 (20120515) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com