Sonar Producer 7 - flapping/ clicking sound when using imported audio files

what are you using for a soundcard in sonar,importing audio is a fairly simple task as i do it all the time.try adjusting your buffer..look in the preference menu and see what sonar has chosen to use as a driver..all else fails if your only importing audio use mme then run the wave profile and you should be good to go..sonds like sonar picked a driver that wasnt going to do what you want.it did that with me

sounds more like automation to me..you got me on that one?look into what driver sonar is using..ill b back later..

there is a way in the preference menu to change your setting to mme..the realtek is what my wife has she uses mme..it got latency issues but for what your doing you dont have 2 worry..change the driver to mme in the..i think(playback recording section of the menu.
then hit apply then it will say...sonar is running some tests..bla..bla...thats the wave profiler..after that it should be good....the latency bar you moved higher is what is giving you pops..chopy sound...try to turn it lower before you switch drivers..dont worry your not doing anything thats not reversable..play with the buffers in queue..try 2 instead of 4(it probably says now)..or try and drop the latency slider...not to low or it will be worse..keep testing as you drop..but im telling ya..use mme for now..i use it now and with great results,unless you got a exturnal soundcard..use mme with reltek...trust me..i gotta split send me a personal meesage in an hour or so..or i will try to get this worked out for ya by sending you a personal meesage with instrutions step by step.

It's very hard to run Sonar on a laptop with the on board sound.
There are tonnes of threads from people who have tried. Sonar really works best with a proper audio/midi interface. That's why I'm looking into running a simpler DAW on my ASUS Net book because I'm going to be traveling and I don't want to lug along an interface. My reading points to using ASIO4all when trying to run Sonar on a realtech on board card.
I havn't done it for a long time but last time I tried Sonar P 7 with my netbook,  it just crashed unless I used MME which is useless to me. Soft synth's seem to hate MME. So you have to play MIDI with the MS wavetable ! yuck! The only good thing about ASIO 4 all is this situation so give it a try, it's a free download. You can always remove it.

GK, do you still have Sonar LE installed on your laptop?
If so, check to see what driver mode it is using.
All versions of Sonar prior to X1 (and maybe X1) default to WDM. The Realtek soundchip does not support that driver mode well.
In Sonar, go to Options>Audio>Advanced.
You can change the driver mode to MME, which will give you higher latency, which is not an issue of you are doing playback only.
You might also try the WASAPI driver, if Sonar 7 has that option.
It should be supported in Vista and W7, and is much more efficient.
In either case, run the wave profiler, and restart Sonar.

btw, you don't hear this in the players, because they are not attempting to use the sound card in a full duplex mode. Sonar does, and it puts a real strain on the sound card and its drivers.