I recently bought a Focusrite VRM Box from B & H foto for $75 inc. shipping. It works great with I-tunes and T-Racks 3 but I can't get it to play nice with either X1 or X2. The asio driver shows up in the list but remains greyed out. I'm using it as a stand alone i.e. no other sound card or S/PDIF. This little unit is cool but would be way cooler if I can get it to work with Sonar. Any suggestions? Thanks.
 
Rocky
 
Dell laptop studio 15, i5 quad core w/8 gigs of ram,Windows 7 64 bit, Sonar X1 & X2 64 bit

So the next question would be what version of the drivers are you using, are you using the latest driver. etc.

http://uk.focusrite.com/downloads?product=VRM+Box

I do have the latest driver Alex. Thanks for the reply and link.

Rocky

Try following first 5 steps for M-Audio interface (sure I understand you are using focusrite, pretend you are not :)
http://www.cakewalk.com/S...m=asio&man=M-Audio

Otherwise...
Running any other software that could be locking out this driver?
Tried WDM drivers (if you have them?).

CakeAlexS


Try following first 5 steps for M-Audio interface (sure I understand you are using focusrite, pretend you are not :)
http://www.cakewalk.com/Support/hwsetup.aspx?dm=asio&man=M-Audio

Otherwise...
Running any other software that could be locking out this driver?
Tried WDM drivers (if you have them?).

I tried WDM and didn't have anything else running. Thanks for the info Alex. I give it a whirl tomorrow.
 
Rocky

Did you check the settings in the VRM's Control Panel? 

Also check the Windows 7 mixer. 

When you are using the VRM box as the only sound card you need to set the SONAR Audio Bit Depth to '16'. When you are using the VRM box in the S/PIDF of another sound card then you can run SONAR @ '24'. The VRM Box is probably working with itunes because itunes is functioning at '16'.

I got mine from B&H too, great little box. I believe I had trouble getting it to work as a standalone as well, although I didn't try the bit depth setting above. I just went ahead and connected it to my interface via S/PDIF and it works great (although I took me a little while to work out that you're not supposed to have the VRM box selected as input & output drivers in Sonar - just your interface). 

You should be able to use the VRM box with Sonar just fine using ASIO drivers at 24 bit without using SPDIF.  I'm playing a session in X2 at 48KHz/24-bit through the VRM box as I'm typing this.

Make sure driver type is set to ASIO and Focusrite USB ASIO Driver is selected on the Devices and Driver settings tabs of the preferences.

If you are still unable to get the VRM box working with Sonar, please use this link to contact Focusrite support:

http://www.focusrite.com/answerbase/en/contact.php

Thanx for all of the help! I'm diggin' the VRM box and lookin' forward having it work with X2.

Rocky