Thanks for the suggestions. We'll certainly move threads when appropriate and when we have time to do so. This is just a tiny part of what we do as Cakewalk staff (nobody is a dedicated, full-time forum mod) so we don't always have time to move threads, chime in, etc.

For example, I am busy editing and rendering videos on two machines right now, and am just popping on here as the video renders.
Now, back to the original topic at hand ... 

OK, thanks for that Seth. Duly noted. It was worth a shot. 

Susan....do you have Maschine and is your install of Maschine working correctly?  Kind of desparate to see if this is a person to person problem, or if everyone with 1.6.2 has this?

Anyone have any findings on this? i too am interested to read how people use Maschine with Sonar X1

I make my beats with Maschine solo, then pull everything into sonar. With Battery3 I freeze it.  Recording live into Sonar from Maschine does not work for me either.

dang--- SOOOOOOOOOO frustrating. 
Maschine is arguably the best drum machine/sampler out there, and its not working. 
hope we can get this fixed soon. 

has anyone tried using it in standalone with sonar running via rewire or some sort of workaround? 

(i know you can export loops in maschine but i want to use it inside Sonar)

no issue here with maschine 1.5

Were you experiiencing this with maschine 1.5 ?

Are you making a loop ?
If so make sure that you looped in a multiple of the maschine loop :

Exemple : 

maschine loop 2 bars ...you can start sonar loop at any of 2 multiple ....do not start loop at bar 3 to 5 for exmple ...but 0/2 or 2/4 or 0/4 or 0/8 ect ...

don't know if you got it ...

Cpu is chilling and i ain't upgrading to 1.6 until i'm sure it's rok solid and cpu safe ...

I do thind that at any giving latency maschine used with maschine give more latency that maschine as a midi controller ...

Are you using maschine software to sequence or sonar to sequence maschine ?

I am using Sonar to sequence, and triggering Maschine for the sounds.   Theproblem is definitely not with Maschine...it is with Sonar's metronome. 

i havent yet figured out how to use sonar to trigger the notes in maschine--- but if i do i will use it that way. maschine would simply host/map the samples. 

For now though, Maschine won't even loop for me correctly. Ideally it would stop/start with Sonar, but it never stops. I had another post on this a few months back... 

the purpose of machine is to sequencing in it !!!

You can then drag and drope the pattern created as midi or audio .....so check you midi batch option in machine ...i have no issue in both way of using it .....sequencing in maschine or out .....