I am using Amplitube 3 inside X1 producer, how to i set the auotmation inside of sonar to turn on effects pedals inside amplitube at certain points in the song, i know how to set it up inside amplitube but for some reason sonar is not reading it right. thanks in advance

You have to assign the pedal a number controller (not a name) and the automate that numbered controller. 

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Get the automation dialog by pressing the AUTO button in lower right.

bapu, thanks alot, so then do i just turn the pedal on when i want it to be and turn it off when i am ready and the automation with read it?

Then you draw an automation envelope on that parm on that looks like this.

For visual purposed I did not raise the envelope all the way to the top (which is 100 "unmuted") bu that is what you would do.

I'm at this same point with a Stealthpedal, where I have the automation configured as shown above but it's not recording the automation (yes, I have write enabled).  Any more ideas?

What bapu is suggesting is drawing in the automation. Just insert a node (double-click) and drag it to the top to turn the effect on, or drag it to the bottom to turn the effect off. You may also have to right-click on the envelope between the nodes and select "Jump".

After further troubleshooting I've narrowed it down to the automation recording for only a few seconds then stopping (the audio is still being captured though):
 

 
Then once it's stopped, it may not start ever again until I close and reopen Sonar fresh, and then maybe I get a few seconds of capture before the same thing again.  VERY frustrating.
 
Here's my automation settings within Amplitube just so you know I'm not a putz:
 

Further clarification (see post directly above)... it seems that I get about 1 minute after opening the project to record automation, then it stops as seen above and won't work again until I close Sonar completely and reopen.  So what happens at the 1 minute mark that causes automation recording to suddenly stop functioning altogether?
 
The entire time the pedal is controlling the wah fine, so I don't think the pedal is the cause (and I'm even thinking Amplitube can be ruled out(?)).  But if I can't get this working then I can't use the pedal for its intended purposes (home recording tracking).

So are you on X1D?