John If you see ASIO for your internal audio chip its likely one based on ASIO4All a poor choice.

 
the only asio choice for onboard realtek, etc, that don't provide their own asio driver!
 

mudgelI'll bet it's ASIO4ALL.

it probably is, yet:
 

coltpeacemakerim using ASIO as it giving me the best results atm

 
getting somewhat tiresome, all this anti-asio4all nonsense, it clearly works for many people, indeed the most-used driver with sonar according to the analytics, i'm so sorry you guys couldn't work out how to configure it to work for you
 
@coltpeacemaker - if you do get an external audio device that as its own asio driver, don't forget to uninstall asio4all as sonar may get confused by it (for reasons unknown)

pwalpwal

John If you see ASIO for your internal audio chip its likely one based on ASIO4All a poor choice.

 
the only asio choice for onboard realtek, etc, that don't provide their own asio driver!
 

mudgelI'll bet it's ASIO4ALL.

it probably is, yet:
 

coltpeacemakerim using ASIO as it giving me the best results atm

 
getting somewhat tiresome, all this anti-asio4all nonsense, it clearly works for many people, indeed the most-used driver with sonar according to the analytics, i'm so sorry you guys couldn't work out how to configure it to work for you
 
@coltpeacemaker - if you do get an external audio device that as its own asio driver, don't forget to uninstall asio4all as sonar may get confused by it (for reasons unknown)

I can somewhat agree with you here on ASIO4ALL gets a bad rap, but with good reason.
Most users who are using it are newbies, there for don't know much about driver support.
They go buy a real interface and try to install the supplied drivers, then the problems begin because they didn't uninstall ASIO4ALL.
 
I have used it in the past but it started becoming more of a problem than a solution.
 

i'm not sure John and mudgel count as newbies!

pwalpwal
i'm not sure John and mudgel count as newbies!

of course not. Those guys are seasoned professionals (like you man )
You know what I mean though. Newb's get an interface after years of using a soundblaster with ASIO4ALL, then forget to uninstall it, then they say the ole "Hey why doesn't my sound work" ?

yeah, not long ago i was wearing my current shoes when i bought some new ones (shoes), but they didn't fit! turns out no one told me to take the old ones off first! all the old guys at the shoe shop were just going "shouldn't have been wearing shoes!"
 
btw, soundblaster does have its own asio driver ;-) although the kxproject drivers (oh no! open source and free!) are far superior, exposing the whole dsp engine for custom routing, fx, etc... ("soundblaster" just being the consumer-branded version of the professional-branded emu chipsets found in samplers everywhere for quite a while...)

Cool, its settled then. I'm throwing out my Focusrite and installing that old SoundBlaster.