Thanks scook.

No problem SGodfrey. I'll be buying my new Laptop in three days.
It's an HP Pavilion M6 (2.2ghz i7; 8 gig ram; 2gig graphics chip; Windows 8) I just hope to God that HP have provided a decent soundcard, or else i'm screwed; but actually i think most Laptop makers these days go with Realtek, and i'm sure Realtek are aware that Laptop manufacturers expect the latest standards and performance etc, so i'm guessing Realtek are aware of the need to continually upgrade converters and whatever else to offer increasingly better performance, so here's hoping. 


Yesteryear the inbuilt soundcards in Laptops were not known for professional performance, but i would hazard a guess to say that Laptop soundcards these days are being built with much better standards while getting cheaper as time goes by, as with everything; so if i use WaveRT drivers again, i'm expecting the same slick performance that i'm getting now. 

FYI the HP Laptop i'm buying has got a "Beats-Audio" logo on it, so hopefully that will bode well for a somewhat better driver or soundcard all-up. But i can only hope, because i don't really know what to expect until i get started. Cheers. 

The Realtek chip inside my Laptop is borderline junk!

No, I'll re-phrase that - it's total junk, and won't work with Sonar in any driver configuration.

If I were you, I would set some money aside for a decent interface

How old is your Laptop? What brand is it. I'm using a Realtek soundcard inside my current Laptop with WaveRT drivers and getting much better performance than ASIO on a dedicated third-party soundcard. 

I don't want to pay for a third-party audio-interface because i have no need for it; i make dance music which consists of all drum samples and softsynths and romplers, and thus i don't need to record acoustic instruments from outside.   

In my current DAW i have a song playing 17 different softsynths each on a different track, plus 18 tracks of audio, plus 124 real-time effects, and i can easily insert another softsynth and play it in real-time without any latency if i wish. None of this has been mixed-down yet, it's all playing in real-time direct from the cpu. I think this is all being dictated by the performance of the onboard soundcard and the driver, so using Sonar with this same set-up should be no different unless Sonar doesn't allow me to use WaveRT. Which reminds me, does anyone know if Sonar X2 will allow me to nominate WaveRT drivers in the audio preferences?

You'll really want to use ASIO and a dedicated audio interface with Sonar.

godparticle


How old is your Laptop? What brand is it. I'm using a Realtek soundcard inside my current Laptop with WaveRT drivers and getting much better performance than ASIO on a dedicated third-party soundcard.

In my current DAW i have a song playing 17 different softsynths each on a different track, plus 18 tracks of audio, plus 124 real-time effects, and i can easily insert another softsynth and play it in real-time without any latency if i wish. None of this has been mixed-down yet, it's all playing in real-time direct from the cpu. I think this is all being dictated by the performance of the onboard soundcard and the driver, so using Sonar with this same set-up should be no different unless Sonar doesn't allow me to use WaveRT. Which reminds me, does anyone know if Sonar X2 will allow me to nominate WaveRT drivers in the audio preferences?

If you get that good results with the integrated chip, enjoy it. You're one in a million and the other forumites are not going to believe you   :o) :o) Or are you the same guy they did not believe in another thread? If not, you're the second person  ever I've heard being happy with the integrated chip. But if your success is reproducable by others with other VSTs, there really has been developement in the driver/chip-field.

It's the same guy.

since youre on pc i say focusrite saffire all the way. my 3rd interface, the only one i havent had any problems with.

since youre on pc i say focusrite saffire all the way. my 3rd interface, the only one i havent had any problems with.

ASG


since youre on pc i say focusrite saffire all the way. my 3rd interface, the only one i havent had any problems with.

If anyone has problems with Focusrite interfaces, check your graphics card drivers. I've had a few Focusrite hiccups until I downloaded updated graphics drivers.