Trying to use Sonar 8.5 with M-Audio FastTrack Pro and having major issues

Wondering if anyone else out there has got an M-Audio Fast Track Pro successfully working with Sonar 8.5,

I upgraded to Sonar 8.5 some time ago when I got a new Windows 7 machine, but haven't had time to do much with it, now I'm trying to get into that.

I have my guitar plugged into my computer through the M-Audio Fast-Track Pro, and have headphones plugged into there to pick up the output.

I can hear the guitar nicely through those headphones and can hear the audio coming out of the computer.

When I record, I can hear everything well and see the audio track being laid down.  However, when I stop recording, Sonar does some processing on the audio track and actually moves everything slightly to the left so that it's now all out of time with the rest of the tracks, everything playing just a fraction before it's supposed to.  Plus, I hear some popping type sounds in the playback like it's clipping or something, even though I've got the levels set low enough to avoid any clipping.

I've tried looking through all the settings, I even went online and downloaded the latest patches for Sonar 8.5 and also for the M-Audio device, but it didn't make any difference.  I've also gone through all the options and settings and can't find anything that makes any difference.

Hopefully someone out there can help me.

Also, when I run the Wave Profiler it keeps coming up saying that the best the M-Audio FastTrack Pro can do is 48khz, 16/24-bit.  But it's supposed to be able to do 96KHz.  Rather annoying as even the sound card built into my laptop will do 192KHz 24-bit, it's just a bit annoying having to plug everything into the Microphone input on the laptop!

I seem to have got it working now.  I basically fiddled with different settings until something worked.

I saw your comment about "ASIO drivers".  I had downloaded the latest driver for the FastTrack Pro.  I don't have a clue what ASIO is, but I saw it as an option in one of the drop down lists under options, so I tried selecting it.  It told me that taking that selection basically stopped the FastTrack Pro from working at all.  I tried a couple of the other settings in the same drop down box.  One of them was MME or something like that.  When I selected that it said it wouldn't take effect until I restarted the application.  So I closed down and when I went to open it again it gave an error saying the application failed to initialise the audio device or something like that and wouldn't open.  So I disconnected the FastTrack Pro and tried opening again.  It opened this time.  Then when it was open I turned it back on and it turned on fine, and now when I try and select input options instead of just having FastTrack Pro there, it has MME devices and lists FastTrack Pro under that.  So selected one of them and tried recording stuff again and it seems to now be working perfectly with that option.

Note, I did try the forum search before posting, but the search terms I tried didn't come up with anything useful.  It can be difficult searching forums.  I find I often either get no search results or thousands of unrelated ones.

But also, I have seen a few that had some similarities, but no clear solution listed, but at some point the person posts that they got it working, but never specify how.  Hence I thought I'd put the details in here.  Also, someone might see it and respond with more helpful details still.  But even if not, it looks like I've got it working in a usable way now at least!

I would use the Asio drivers. Set anything that has 128, 256, 512 etc to 256. This will work and not give any dropouts. Stick to 48k 24bit or 44.1k 24bit and mess around when you know it's all working. Make sure you have the latest drivers from the m-audio website.

So selected one of them and tried recording stuff again and it seems to now be working perfectly with that option.