OK, so I got the above method working but the sound quality is ATROCIOUS! not NEARLY mixdown quality!!!! Live recording is just NOT an option.  I'll just have to copy and paste the ****! and mixdown.
 
All of this needs to happen in the EXPORT dialog.. Live recording to disk does not process the sound like it should!  The thing that frustrates me most is that I don't understand half the terminology flung around here

RedSkyRoad
OK, so I got the above method working but the sound quality is ATROCIOUS! not NEARLY mixdown quality!!!! Live recording is just NOT an option.  I'll just have to copy and paste the ****! and mixdown.
 
All of this needs to happen in the EXPORT dialog.. Live recording to disk does not process the sound like it should!  The thing that frustrates me most is that I don't understand half the terminology flung around here

that just solidifies you cant just open up a DAW and think your gong to be superman.
it takes time and effort. most of us have been doing this for years and continuously learning the tool we use.

chuckebaby
 
that just solidifies you cant just open up a DAW and think your gong to be superman.
it takes time and effort. most of us have been doing this for years and continuously learning the tool we use.

Thanks, this helped me solve my issue!

RedSkyRoad
OK, so I got the above method working but the sound quality is ATROCIOUS! not NEARLY mixdown quality!!!! Live recording is just NOT an option.  I'll just have to copy and paste the ****! and mixdown.
 
All of this needs to happen in the EXPORT dialog.. Live recording to disk does not process the sound like it should!  The thing that frustrates me most is that I don't understand half the terminology flung around here

 
Aux recording and bounce/export will produce digitally identical output if set up correctly. It's not clear what you might have done wrong.
 
I should have mentioned that sending from Master to a new aux track that's created with the output going to Master by default would create a loop, so SONAR will fail to create the Send in that case.
 
I understand how all these little gotchas can be frustrating until you understand everything. Can't really be helped. But life is a lot easier if you don't insist on doing things the hard way to start with.

brundlefly

RedSkyRoad
OK, so I got the above method working but the sound quality is ATROCIOUS! not NEARLY mixdown quality!!!! Live recording is just NOT an option.  I'll just have to copy and paste the ****! and mixdown.
 
All of this needs to happen in the EXPORT dialog.. Live recording to disk does not process the sound like it should!  The thing that frustrates me most is that I don't understand half the terminology flung around here

Aux recording and bounce/export will produce digitally identical output if set up correctly. It's not clear what you might have done wrong.
 
I should have mentioned that sending from Master to a new aux track that's created with the output going to Master by default would create a loop, so SONAR will fail to create the Send in that case.
 
I understand how all these little gotchas can be frustrating until you understand everything. Can't really be helped. But life is a lot easier if you don't insist on doing things the hard way to start with.

Thanks for trying to help.  I only come to the forum if I cannot figure out something on my own or through the online manual.  I make no use of live recordings in my music.  Everything is VST based, so I don't focus on things like "comping", etc...
 
The reason I have to bounce this clip 3 times, is because SONAR can't like FL Studio (which I started on) merge the delay&reverb tail over the beginning for looping purposes.  For listening purposes, it just sounds terrible if you loop a single WAV and it repeats dry at the end of the phrase.
 
Anyway, let's leave this until I know what things like "slip-editing", "punch-in/out" is (not that I might need it)