Bit Depth Grayed Out

In the Unified Preference View, go to File>Audio Data and in the right where is says Record Bit Depth, change that to 16Bit.
 
Then, you will be good to go.

thomasabarnes
In the Unified Preference View, go to File>Audio Data and in the right where is says Record Bit Depth, change that to 16Bit.
 
Then, you will be good to go.

I don't think so. If the driver is fixed at 16bit, changing the Record Bith Depth will not change the driver setting. This is the fix for projects recording at 16bit when the driver is set to a higher bit rate.

The thing is he say's 

msr
I am trying to sync an external recording device to Sonar X2P 

So to me this implies clock rate, As in transport or word clock. Bit depth is not an issue with syncing gear usually. 

+1 to ditching ASIO4ALL (specifically uninstalling the drivers completely). The ASIO drivers (MixControl software) with the Saffire are what you should be using.
 
Sample rate is then adjusted from the MixControl software. Bit Depth as per post #2 above, but I would default to not changing those and dithering to 16 bit on a mix down (but I am not sure what you are doing so cannot speak to this really, just an opinion).

Because they are helpful  ASIO4ALL can become one's nemesis :(
 
I sometimes feel like I am in "Bug's Life".... "They come, they eat, they leave..."

I agree it is very helpful to get a confirmation that advice worked, not to reward the helpful poster with gratitude, so much as to help the reader with a similar problem who has taken the trouble to locate this thread and is not sure which suggestion solved the problem.
 
On a similar note, although it helps to have the OP re-do the subject line of the original post with SOLVED!, it would be even more helpful if he edited the body of his original post to include the details of his solution. That way someone looking through the forum will find the solution at the top, and will not have to read through many unhelpful solutions comments jokes etc. to get there. What is not helpful if for a dozen posts like this to be appended to the thread so that finding the solution is even further buried in the middle of a long list of not so useful posts.
 
I appreciate the irony  involved in appending this post myself.

Ah ha! you are right this is what I found in my inbox. Mettelus is a very helpfull poster around here, that's for the tag. I didn't know we could do that. I will do the same as I find some answers are spot on. 
 

March 14, 14 2:30 AM

mettelus just marked your post as Helpful

spacealf
In my case using ASIO drivers from my manufacturer there is not a choice. It is 24 bit. To change the driver bit depth in Sonar on mine on the General Tab of the Options -> Audio menu I have to choose Windows drivers - WDM/KS then I can do that, or perhaps MME drivers with the Advanced Tab of the Options -> Audio menu.
 
That just means that with ASIO drivers, I can Export the Audio out of Sonar and make it 16 bit then with or without Dither exporting the Audio into a Wave file (or perhaps *.mp3 file).
 

Back to you regularly scheduled music.
 

Sonar supports all windows audio drivers. Steinberg created ASIO for the ability to have one driver to work with both Apple and Windows. Cubase only supports ASIO or MME for Windows. WDM is actually a better audio driver model if the developer writes it well enough. The problem is WDM is huge because it is not just for audio but all drivers that Windows needs. It takes a programmer that knows what they are doing to do a good job. What often happens is a specific manufacturer may just work more carefully on ASIO because if it works well he will have Apple and Windows covered.  WDM will be an afterthought. On the other hand some do equally well on both and it becomes in the case of Sonar which you prefer. Not which will work or what is supported.