SONAR X1 AUDIO DEVICES/DRIVER ISSUE

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Is there any way to connect my studio monitor to my pc without interfering with the boss's setup because i want to use the amplifiers when i am playing and recording but do not want it to act as a playback device.
 
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I am not familiar with the Boss me 25, but most interfaces have a mix control that allows you to control the amount of the processed sound and the unprocessed sound.  Is there such a knob/dial on you me 25 or is there software to configure the me 25?
 
Hit back.  I'll look for your pedal on the net to familiarize myself in the meantime.
 
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Living Room Rocker

Thanks for the reply. The signal going in and out of Sonar does include ME 25 signal as it is a multi effects processor. The ME 25 has a single channel output and that is the problem i am facing. Is there any way i can use both the drivers (PC and asio). What i am basically doing is connecting my guitar to the me 25 input, connecting the amplifier to me 25 output and then i connect the studio monitors directly to the computer using a basic aux cable. But Sonar does not display any other output drivers apart from ME Out. Is there any specific driver that i can install or any way Sonar can display PC in the output driver section so that i can select my PC (which goes into the studio monitors) as my playback device. When i select MME instead of ASIO in the main driver section, i cannot use ME25 because its not listed in the input driver section. ME25 input with PC or studio monitor Output is what i really need.
 
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The ASIO driver specification means that usually only one audio device can be used by Sonar if you use ASIO drivers. There are some exceptions in that a few interface managers write drivers that will allow more than one of their interfaces to be used at the same time, but I doubt the Boss unit is one, and if it were you would need another Boss to make this work.

ASIO4ALL can be useful if the only soundcard/interface available is the one built into the PC. It is not a true ASIO driver though, and has been known to cause problems for other audio drivers on the system, including ASIO ones. If you do install it and manage to get it to work I don't know if Sonar will allow you to use it with the Boss driver as well, I've never tried this.

You can use more than one interface/soundcard if you use Window's WDM drivers (if the Boss and soundcard have WDM drivers) or if all else fails Window's MME drivers. Id you are monitoring whatbyou are recording through Sonar's track echo function though you are likely to have big problems with latency using WDM and certain to with MME drivers.

I'm not sure how you are recording the guitar? Are you recording audio from the Boss, that is without also recording the guitar amplifier? If the ME-25 has amplifier simulations and you are using them then one answer might be to use the monitor instead of the guitar amplifier (because it's output will not be being recorded in the first place).

Your best answer is probably to look for a USB audio interface that has multiple inputs and outputs and ASIO drivers and use that to do all the audio input and output from Sonar. If that is not possible it might be possible to use the PC's own soundcard with ASIO4ALL if necessary, but I would avoid that if possible.

The ASIO specification only permits one ASIO driver for I/O at a time.