Funny hey!
It's quite obvious that the op needs some serious study time if he can't get 24 tracks of plain audio recording/playback. I commented because like it or not in the last few years there does seem to be a lot more (how can I say this) perhaps passive aggressive responses to posters that are critical of Sonar/cakewalk. I remember when even trolls/tards couldn't get us worked up on these forums. We happily WALKED with a simple STABLE daw. Sure the OP probably needs to DEFRAG his drive but there are some major FLAWS, ISSUES, BUGS, whatever you want to call them in sonar they have been present for at least 3 versions now.
HERE'S ONE!.>> Looping midi clips that drive soft synths in the matrix. There is a noticeable drift of between 1-2 ms when the clip is looping in the matrix compared to the same clip looping in the arrangement pane.The flanging in and out when you duplicate two syntyhs is the first telltale sign then there's the erratic hits and velocity on the first notes of the matrix looped syn.ONLY with ASIO latency set at 1.5 ms does it get close to OK! (close isn't good enough).
This does this with my harware as well (Virus TIJV1080,Supernova,Venom,TB 303) all LFO's sync PERFECTLY when looping in arrange page throw them in the matrix oh oh !! here comes the drift...
Despite having crappy editing tools and the ugliest GUI ever LIVE CAN DO IT EXACTLY right in session and arrange at the same time without this problem it just can't do all the other things that I "LOVE" about SONAR.
Now.... Tell me it's Audio Drivers, my mobo my H.D.D my ram my OS my .INI file my byte allocation size on my drives ,my PCI latency or is it the look ahead plugs that im NOT using.
MAYBE it's just Sonar the once" (12) toned" mid 20's DAW that's slowly becoming the overdressed overweight BLOATED mid 40's DAW that can't just run down to the park and back anymore. ROLAND I have LOVED YOU FOR YEARS. get your sh8t together or I'm going to start sleeping around town sheesh I might even try logic on a MAC !!(EEEWW THAT'S TOO GOING FAR)
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RANT OVER
Just GOT x2 installed HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH