Sonar 4 Pro on Dell Inspiron

I'm having the same problem with Sonar 2.2 on a new Dell Inspiron 9300. On the audio front, I keep getting an "Audio Driver Error" when I start Sonar, on the MIDI front I get "No MIDI outputs selected" but "Microsoft MIDI Mapper" is the only one that shows up to choose from and I know that there's some kind of Roland SW Synth on the soundcard. Help??

To get my SigmaTel soundcard to work, I had to change the project to 48khz.

i believe LettuceChesse is correct ASIO4All will work with the SigmaTelAudio card at 48000 (and only at 48000)

I probably have a similar card in my similar older Dell 5000 and I've had it working with Sonar 3 PE and P5, but I went away from ASIO4All because of the slight inconvenience of 48000 when I wanted to burn CDs. There are convertors that can do thi sthough -- like Voxengo r8brain -- so it's really no biggie

I have a PCMCIA Echo Indigo card that works nicely

Sigmatel is a piece of Sh*T, but that's not to say that the Dell computers suck. I have an Inspiron 9300 which I use with an external USB audio interface for tracking etc and I use an Echo Indigo DJ for live use and for when I'm somewhere I can't be bothered bringing my Edirol. And it's sic! I can get Sound Forge and Fruity loops to run on the Sigmatel, but I don't want to because the sound is CRAP! Echo is the way to go. the PCMCIA system is awesome, but I am looking into the EMU-1616m because I'm tired of the Edirol and the 1616m has a PCMCIA card that can be brought out and about with a pair of headphones, which also gives you the benefit of a familiar workplace "away from home".

However, the 9300 is a workhorse! After some tweaking to the OS it's running like a bastard and I've seriously never been able to do so much work on a lap-top before. I would recomend it to anyone. And with small, portable, easy to use audio interfaces, why bother with that not-at-all-even-half-decent-rubbish-audio-interface that is Sigmatel something something...

mikea59- I've solved the Sonar (v2.2) on the Dell Inspiron (9300) problem (for me anyway). I found it in the Music Creator section of the Cakewalk Forum (postings from around 7/15/2005). Someone suggested going into Options/Audio/Advanced and setting Driver Mode to MME. After that I restarted and still didn't have sound. so I went back to Options/Audio/General and found that the Playback Timing Master had been set to None. I changed this to the Sigma Tel C-Major Audio, hit OK, restarted and everything works! I'm still springing for the PCMCIA card when I can scrape together the cash. Good Luck!

I have 2ghz inspiron 600m that works great with sonar. In the sonartest scores it's right where it should be with any other 2ghz centrino (~64% cpu at 1.5ms). The two upgrades I made was to replace the drive with a 7200rpm model and to pick up an echo indigo io soundcard. That said though, I often use the asio4all drivers with the sigmatel internal card just for monitoring and it sounds/works fine. Never recorded with it though...

PS - I did have to make the saio4all change to run at 48k