Hi Dennis,
don't know if I'm being over critical, but I vaguely remember the whirring of the zip drive used to annoy me on the VA7, it was constant, a bit like the constant whirring on my netbook. Maybe being 2nd hand, my VA7 might have been faulty? but to me it was a bit of an annoyance.

With my PA800 currently being down, at least I might finally get around to try & sort my little V Machine out. Unfortunately when I bought it second hand, it wasn't in it's factory state,and Miss KnowItAllhere,
didn't think it would be all that hard to figure out. ( It's more complex than I'd anticipated haahaa)
I'm hoping to get it working with soundfonts & OMB or Livestyler & my Netbook.
Are you keybordless at the moment or is the VA7/GW8 just a second board.

best wishes
Rikki