i'm waiting X3D and do a full back up and go for those 2 major things ....

Well for me I managed to at least get it to work as a MIDI controller today with Addictive Drums. Can't work out how to push separate notes to separate MIDI channels though.
 
I can also use it as a soft synth, it will sync and play along with X3C however the MIDI notes will not show realtime in Sonar. Guess it has to be dragged into the tracks later.
 
I don't seem to have much joy getting to sync up with X3C as a standalone app using MIDI clock.
 
Anyway early days for me... So much to learn...

YES! I've work how to get it to 16 audio outputs using this video: http://youtu.be/_ScjVqnzgG8
Works brilliantly once you (finally) know how! (the UI for the MIDI outputs has changed a lot it seems).
But now I've worked out I can't record them in Sonar for some reason... Wave forms get displayed when recording a track such as a snare, but then I can't seem to play them back.... Then the tracks disappear if I disarm record.... Oh well tomorrow is another day, I'm probably doing something stupid.

I haven't got into this in any great depth today, but this is what I've ended up with:

* The maschine soft synth is on 17 with MIDI out enabled.
* The seperate outputs are on 1 to 16 and sound comes out of them.
 
If I press the red button (see Maschine12) and record the Wave form appears in the tracks but won't get played back if I press play. If I press that red button again the waveform disappears. Again probably doing something stupid, the audio tracks appear to have turned into soft synth tracks... anyways...
 

do the recording of maschine stuff inside maschine within sonar as a vst. export sounds or groups from maschine and bring back into sonar for mixing (i love automating maschine fx within maschine with the knob tho) i love workin in sonar just as much as the next guy, but trust me, learn to use maschine the way it's intened to be used and you'll truly appreciate it. must have for Electronic music that has a modern edge. my 2 cents...

In Maschine there's a tab arrow down, then file, export audio, then choose the region ( all scenes), output ( master, groups, sounds.... sounds would be every single pad from every group, all individual), choose destination folder (project audio folder), further options include normalize, loop optimize, and bit depth. once exported, import maschines wavs from your project audio folder into your project.

Thankyou, appreciated. Ill check it out. Well there are about 3 or 4 methods of workflow and I want to get them all working, right or wrong I like doing things backwards sometimes it adds to productivity in my little brain cell.

However I'm trying to get this method to work before I move onto the next. I like a good mystery :) The sounds are coming onto the Daw but I'm not recording . Why?

Spent a couple of more hours, think I'm stuck.
So to summarise with #54 all I can do is generate what Sonar calls a waveform preview on each channel, and I can't record the audio I hear.

set the loop size in maschine, press record in maschine, press play in sonar, play maschine pads and see them recorded in maschine.. now its in maschine and will play side by side within sonar. next you must add more stuff till you're happy, then export from maschine (as described above), or bounce to track (highlighting the source maschine track as well as the synth audio track), or freeze maschine within sonar. Maschines export options provide great flexibility for wavs or stems or master. Wavform preview is just that, a preview of what the wave will look like once frozen or bounced, can't record the preview.

Well I created a new thread here to avoid confusion, looking at it from the Sonar/wave preview point of view rather than just the Maschine angle, for instance freezing the track won't work either, in this instance just a maschine demo loop is being played (using it as a plugin not a controller):
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Waveform-Preview-m2949348.aspx