Help me record my mixes please...

Welcome to the forum!

What soundcard are you using? What drivers?  You surely could do something, but it would be easier to answer if we knew something about your settings and and what you have done this far. Are you recording audio or MIDI?

If your latency is set low, try increasing it to 10-12 milliseconds.
If you're using the onboard soundcard, try downloading ASIO4ALL drivers, they sometimes help.

You description of the problem does not give me a clear picture of the type of the problem.

Does the scratchy sound come only when you listen to the mix, or also when you listen to individual tracks?
Are you using some heavy VST?

We don't know if your laptop is too weak, 'cause we don't anything about it.

...forgive me I'm not that much of an expert in computers...:)

thanks man,

is there any other software that i could use? I don't need anything special just to record mixes without interruption.

cheers

Will try them.

Thanks

can you post a sample of what it sounds like?

What about taking a deep breath and getting organised. What drivers are you using and what is your latency set to? These are the most basic things. Recording audio without overdubs the latency can be set quite high.
 
Secondly, you say you are using an integrated Conexant soundcard even though you have the UA. Why? The UA with ASIO drivers should be the only soundcard you use with SONAR.

Skipping beats when recording plain audio sounds strange. I tend to believe it's the missing RAM that cripples the whole machine. 1 Gb of RAM is hardly enough to run Windows, not to mention a recording software.

ASIO4ALL are not ASIO drivers. Download the ones specificly for the UA.

Try reading about latency in the help files. Surely there's something??!! Copy-pasting the help-files here doesn't sound like way to spend my evening (and I don't have the LE version). Maybe there's even tutorials ???

Hey, I made it!!!!!

It seems that all I had to do is to go to UA-1G setings in control panel and adjust audio buffer size to MAX.

My recordings are as smooth as a cake now:)))

Cheers!

Obviously your computer is too small to run Sonar or any other DAW properly, since Windows will require all of the RAM and more. Did you install Sonar on your friend's lap top, and were the settings set properly? Did you run it in ASIO mode?
I think your only option is to buy a bigger computer and then make sure that the settings are set right. In the "Getting Started" tread on this forum, Cakewalk provides a video on how to set Sonar up. You should check that out.
 
Cheers