Don't know why this is, but when I toggle either record or play metronome I get a large delay, like 5 seconds. The whole audio engine seems to halt for that period.

I flip the metronomes on/off a lot, some things like touchy feely piano parts no click, other times I flip the play metro just to check the overall feel so It's a bit annoying with the delay.

The rest of Sonar is nice and snappy, any ideas?

If it's the flipping on/off that creates this delay, maybe you can have the metronome switched on at all times and send it to a bus.

Then you can turn the metronome on/off just by muting/unmuting the bus, while waiting for X2 and it's (hopefully) better metronome.. :)

I tried adding TTS-1 as it uses little CPU and it's multitimbral GM just to see if it was the default metronome doing this. I set the Sonar metronome settings to "Use MIDI note" and channel 10 so it outputs to the TTS-1 GM drums.

Same thing, toggling the metro on/off, 5 second delay while everything stops dead, UI becomes unresponsive for that period.

I could have it just permanently on and turn it up when needed but then I'd lose count-in.

I get the same kind of delay when record enabling a track, or after going to Sonar options and back out, audio engine just seems to stop and everything is unresponsive for 5 seconds.

Playback is snappy, no delays, dropouts or cracking as you'd get with to low buffers.

I've tried upping the ASIO buffers to as high as they go just to check if that was the problem, but I get the same thing.

Kenneth

I could have it just permanently on and turn it up when needed but then I'd lose count-in.

Sorry.. I don't understand how you mean..
Why would you lose count in, if you just use the mute/unmute-button on the metronome bus in the same way you'd use the metronome's on/off switch?