If i export it will i still be able to work on it it sonar?

 
The SONAR project will still be intact. The export will be an mp3 mixdown of the project. If you have that option in SONAR.

The ME-25 is not an audio/interface. You plug the ME-25 into a audio interface that is plugged into the computer. The sound goes into the audio/interface to record, then if playing back the sound goes out to the audio/interface to go to your amp. http://www.sweetwater.com...udio/audio_interfaces/ You can try a built-in sound card with probably adaptors to try and get it to Sonar but a regular audio/interface is much better. All things go into the audio/interface and adjust volume to record into Sonar. Use ASIO as the driver if you have those as a driver with the audio/interface and set things in Sonar to tell it in the Audio Menu Options Item when after setting things there to enable you to record and playback in the first place. The ME-25 is a guitar effects box, and although you can use the pedal as a volume (I have not used my yet, but have another manufacturer's guitar box also I have used) to get the volume into Sonar still needs an audio/interface to get into the computer and out of the computer back to the audio/interface to get to your amp. It just don't work that way.

That is with the guitar type cords plugged into the ME-25 with the previous post. I saw on there a USB output or plug-in on the ME-25 but you will have to read the book on that one. First the computer would have to recognize the device as an input in Device Manager on the computer as a USB input device (like a mouse perhaps say), but still it is not a playback device like an audio/interface, still you may get it to record into Sonar if Sonar recognizes it as an input to use, then that has to be marked in Audio Menu Item of probably Options where you set up Sonar to record and playback, and the playback or output of Sonar would have to go into a sound card (bad not professional) or an audio/interface (good) then, and then to the amp. Sure you can plug the ME-25 into an amp, but a computer audio/interface or sound card is not an amp. The audio/interface or sound card is only another type of input and output for the computer to use and record or play music. And then if the USB works on the ME-25 (which I have not used yet) then Sonar will only work with 44,100kHz sample rate (which has to be set in Sonar) and what 16 or 24 bit into the computer and Sonar. That is how it all works.

It is an audio interface, too.
 
Boss ME-25 Guitar Multi-Effects Pedal   Guitar Multi-effects Pedal with COSM Amp Models, Aux iPod Input, 38-second Looper, and Built-in USB Audio Interface - Mac/PC

So it is an audio/interface. I should hook it up and use it, but I like the cords out into another audio/interface instead of USB.

Cassidy - did you ever get this up and going?  Seems like you were close.  During playback if you can see the Sonar meters moving it's probably playing.  As Kalle pointed out, the ME-25 becomes your audio interface, so if you're not hearing anything try plugging headphones into the ME-25 and then see if you hear the playback.

I can not find my manual for the Boss ME-25, but I do own one, and a Digitech Guitar Effects Box also and found that one. All of them to me are the same. They all are a recording device only with an aux input (mini-plug - 1/8" for plugging in a playback device say from the computer). But in Sonar for each track you wish to record on, you have to set up the input to the track and the output for the track. I use a audio/interface so the ASIO drivers become the input - like left, right, or stereo for each track to record on. The output I usually put to Master for each track for Sonar to mix down with before sending it back out to a audio/interface or say a sound card in the computer. The aux mini-jack on the ME-25 would be like playing a *.mp3 file from the computer sounding out to the sound card and taking a cord and hooking up to the aux input of the ME-25 to say listen to a recording while play ing along with it. But only the guitar plugged in to the ME-25 is going to come out of it and be able to record into the computer with. There are not sound synths (soft synths) in it, just tones and sounds to change a little with pre-sets for distortion, or reverb or wah, or phazers or whatever effects for the guitar sound instead of the plain -ol' straight guitar. If anything they are only one-way recording devices and not a playback device unless outputting from a sound card or audio/interface into the ME-25 in the first place. Just like new synths have an input to play a *.mp3 file or wave file perhaps into a synth but it does not output the sound again to record with only the synth output sound of the patch of the synth. It sounds like the problem you are having is setting up the tracks in Sonar to record on. There are separate inputs and outputs for each track to set before arming the track to record on, and the volume is only handled by the ME-25 volume pedal, except on my Digitech (same type unit) even full down on the pedal probably won't overdrive the input into the computer and any volume changes like a volume pedal on my synth will not be moved much to change the volume into the computer and Sonar recording software.

I must say when I edit the sound on my Digitech that there is volume for stuff you can set for the distortion and other effects, and perhaps an overall volume that can be set in the unit, I would have to find out how to edit on the ME-25 when I find the manual to see if the volume can be set. But I think that there is a difference between the two units (the Boss and the Digitech units) and the Boss may not be as flexible but sounds better than the Digitech unit I bought before it. That is the only reason I bought the Boss ME-25 because the amp sims and effects are better in the unit than the Digitech unit. Well that is about it, wonder what I did with the manual have to find it.

Yes, found the manual (on the shelf behind me in plain sight. Duh! The Aux input (say *.mp3 file playing) does not record out of the USB only the guitar sound if playing along with a iPod or IPad or iPhone whatever they are. It mentions nothing about the 1/4" regular cords out of the unit. You can edit sounds on it for effects and what to use the pedal for (which all the way down turns on the FX effects like wah in which case the pedal becomes the wah pedal) which is usually used as a volume pedal. I imagine the Boss ME-25 does not put out more that way then the Digitech in which case the volume all the way up is just adequate enough to record with into Sonar, and backing off a little makes for the volume changes needed for recording a song. There is also the solo switch on the unit which may raise the volume output of the ME-25 for leads but in any case changing the effects around or storing your own sounds into the unit in one of the slots for storing a setting it is best to read the manual because you get to set all of that up or use it like it came from the factory where it was built. The End!

Sorry guys for my disappearance. btw i didnt get a chance to read all your stuff spacealf but jhughs: Yes i did get it running but when i record something then unplug the ME-25, i cant listen to what i recorded. Do i have to have it plugged in 24/7?