My audio is distorting in playback when I record guitar - not clean guitar, but OD.   Recording vocals, acoustic guitar or clean guitar is fine.   It's just when I record with a little gain on my guitar.

Increase ASIO buffers
Freeze synths
Freeze tracks with CPU intensive FX

Thanks!
Greg

Umm... How many tracks do you have when it starts do distort? 
 
Or does it happen at a blank project? 
How does your CPU level look like? (in Sonar)
DPC latency? 

kristoffer
Umm... How many tracks do you have when it starts do distort? 
 
Or does it happen at a blank project? 
How does your CPU level look like? (in Sonar)
DPC latency? 

I have about a dozen songs that are nearly finished except for lead guitar, which I am currently trying to record.   Each song has anywhere from 15-20 tracks.   I have not tried recording audio on a blank project.
I don't have a visible CPU gadget, so I don't know yet.  I'll have to check it today.
I have not yet checked DPC latency.
 
Thanks!
Greg

General rules of thumbs:
If your CPU is spiking, increase your ASIO or WDM settigns
If your Disk % is spiking, increase your Playback & recording I/O buffers
 
CJ

Thanks!
 
Greg

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kristoffer
Umm... How many tracks do you have when it starts do distort? 
 
Or does it happen at a blank project? 
How does your CPU level look like? (in Sonar)
DPC latency? 

I have about a dozen songs that are nearly finished except for lead guitar, which I am currently trying to record.   Each song has anywhere from 15-20 tracks.   I have not tried recording audio on a blank project.
I don't have a visible CPU gadget, so I don't know yet.  I'll have to check it today.
I have not yet checked DPC latency.
 
Thanks!
Greg

In your menu at the top, don't you have your core CPU load? 
 
To check DPC latency, use this tool: 
http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml
 

I don't have the CPU meter showing.  I have to go into Task Manager.   But I just checked my CPU, and it consistently runs under 10% - more around 5% and under.   So that's not the problem.   I did install new drivers for the Quad-Capture this morning but haven't recorded anything yet.   So we'll see..
 
Thanks!
Greg

I believe everyone is writing about the Performance Module in the Control Panel in SONAR not the Windows monitoring tools.