Thanks

Thanks to everyone for their input. I'm very grateful. Its not easy to admit fault but I guess I was loading an earlier version of sonar. Ver 8.1. I loaded up sonar x1.5 and it looks like it will work. It was too late to try anything but the drivers were all there and selected. Once again, great support.

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Thanks to everyone for their input. I'm very grateful. Its not easy to admit fault but I guess I was loading an earlier version of sonar. Ver 8.1. I loaded up sonar x1.5 and it looks like it will work. It was too late to try anything but the drivers were all there and selected. Once again, great support.

If you get a chance could you maybe elaborate a bit (for the sake of others searching similar issues and for my own weirdo curiosity)?
 
If I am understanding this correctly the reason behind the missing driver channels was because you were opening your project in Sonar 8.1 when you intended to open it in X1. Yes?
 
Now I'm no brain monkey and I did not own anything before X1 but in Sonar 8 I'd imagine you'd be able to have access to all the same channels from your interface as you would in X1. Basically those inputs should always be there no matter what DAW you are using... as far as I know.
 
Just trying to understand why you would lose input options between the two versions. Lots of other wierd stuff can happen when opening projects in different versions but this is a new one to me (admittedly I encoutner new things daily).
 
Glad you got it working though.
 
Cheers.

Okay, I'll try... this is my theory
based on my experiences.

Theothers will. If you are recording digitally spdif or optical, then it all depends on frequency lock.

Anyone else use optical 96hz locked
Input and output?

You should have left the extra details in your previous post. IIRC you were having a problem with external devices screwing up at different samplerates. This is important.
 
I saw that post earlier but wasn't smart enough to help. Thing is you need to keep external devices in sync and based on your now edited post that you had external gear or something inside sonar set weird. Not enough details were provided.
 
The only advice I can give (and it is paranoid, dum dum, non professional advice) is keep everything sync'd. Always use the exact sample rate and bit depth through out a specific project until it is completed. When using external gear, if it has any settings like this make sure they match up to your project, soundcard and whatever else is going on.
 
Just keep everything consistent and bad things are less likely to occur. There are several mechanisms that allow mismathced this thats and the other to play reasonably well together in Sonar but my philosophy is... don't tempt fate. Unless you REALLY know what you are doing make sure everything matches up wherever and whenever possible.
 
More details will help the smarter dudes help you.
 
Cheers.

I know what I'm doing but thanks for the reply. I thought it might sound complicated.
Thank you so much again