And also thanks to all the other people who took their time to explain things. It really helped me out a lot! I run my own forum (something totally different) and i realized that what seems very easy to me is a maze to others. So i do my best to answer those questions. Once again thanks. I really appreciate it that so many of you took the time to explain something "easy" to me!

Hi there I assume you mean roland quad capture and its a really good partner to Sonar so don't dispair. First thing, record a mono track only by selecting 'left quad capture 1-2' from the input drop down and plug into the left front panel input only. Do not select a stereo pair input such as 'stereo capture 1-2'. The resulting recorded mono track can be panned left or right from the console. You can tell its mono from the single waveform in track view rather than two ganged waveforms. Its easy to miss this and just record stereo all the time.

I just wonderin'? If your feeding your sound cards output back to the Mackie for monitoring, unless you depress the MUTE solo buttons the sound would be re-recorded with the vocals will it not? Anyway, to use the Mackie I would use the direct output from your mike channel. This is generally cleaner. The last thing you would use is the mains out unless it was a sub mix of a stereo drum set up or a choir.The direct outs were put there for recording. ------------------------------------This topic is to much like a couple other threads with the confusion over the input numbering system.