Frustrations with tempo and audio snap

 So I'm working on my first EBM style remix style. Completely different genre than what I'm use to working with. I'm having some major issues though which have literally been driving me up the wall lately and it seems I'm not the only one having these issues and that it's been going on for quite sometime. Basically what I'm trying to do is something that should be very simple with a few very quick and easy steps: I'm trying to find the tempo of a song from an imported clip. Here's the process I've been trying and maybe I'm just being stupid and making it more difficult than it is or needs to be, but I've been smashing my head for over a week now trying to figure this out. I have cropped along the downbeat in loop construction; one single 4 beat measure. I move the clip to the beginning of the track and open audio snap. Turn on audio snap and click set project from clip. This process simply doesn't seem to work for me. The song doesn't line up properly no matter what I try to do in this situation. Any ideas here?

Depending on material type, you may find this video helpful. That is from a drum track recorded with no metronome and involves editing the clip map to get the first beat to line up correctly.

Audiosnap doesn't work on loops either although it's not clear from your post if that's what you are trying to do. You'll need to bounce to clip first and then re-convert to a loop after the detection if it is.

The enter key/paragraph thing is an issue with the forum software and Firefox V6 onwards. Chrome workas okay as does FF V5 and earlier. Not sure about IE.

Have you tried splitting the clip to a single measure and then using that to extract the tempo?

AFAIK audiosnap works on the whole clip not a selection so it will take the tempo of the whole clip not just a selected measure.

Tried a couple different things but what I've found is the results are never spot on.

I don't know the reference to EBM but is it possible your clip was recorded without a metronome?.
In that case it would have multiple tempos which will show up with Audiosnap. (Per fastbikerboy's video).

The biggest issue is trying to get the project tempo spot on so I can do work using the stems I'm given to do the remix.

EDM (pretty much any electronic music) typically has a single tempo throughout the song without changes. I did find the tempo last night finally for the song I was working on, but it was a painstaking 2 hour long process that would have taken seconds in Cubase or Logic with minimal effort.

It seems that Sonar is just way behind where electronic music is concerned with issues like this, not to mention the time stretching algorithm in Sonar is abysmal at best.

i know your upset at sonar for your projects frustration but theres no need to bring cubase or logic into it,if thats the case then why are you struggling with it,just do it in cubase,or is it cubase doesnt have the other options sonar has.which are quite a few more than both of those daws you mentioned,listen,you cant expect to take a whole clip of fluctuating tempos and have sonar follow it dead on all the time,because of its tempo not being right on(if its in synch to a metrodone,im not sure youd be having this problem,but ive found autosnap to follow my dead on tempos perfectly.
if you do what fbb was saying and take a clip and slice it you can get a basic time stamp for your song but nothing thats going to trace it like a photo.
trust me i wish the technology on sonar was doing this as well but as much as you say cube or logic can do this or do that,its fair to say sonar can do other things that those daws cant.its all a matter of preference.we're all going to run into a few problems now and then.im sure you have on cubase,if you didnt...you wouldnt be using sonar right now.never the less.hope it all works out.
i would like to see in future releases atleast a click with the mouse to set a tempo.i know it sounds corney,but to click your mouse with the song 4-5 times would give a general tempo would be nice.