Just got this and already having problems and many questions lol

I have the same set up with home studio 6 and maudio fast track pro. Beagle had great advice. I copied his reply to me about a different issue, but it is a good starting point. Also, you can adjust your loutput evels on your guitar/bass, on the maudio device and in the console area in sonar. play with the levels so you dont hit the red and peak out. See Beagles advice below.

first, which driver mode are you using? with the m-audio fast track pro, I'd advise using ASIO driver mode. that alone might solve your problem if you've not disabled your onboard soundcard. to change to ASIO: OPTIONS>AUDIO>ADVANCED>DRIVER MODE = ASIO
close SHS
restart SHS

next, make sure that your sample rate in your project matches the sampling rate in your m-audio software. running at 44100Hz is typically good enough for home applications. set your project rate to 44100Hz and then check your m-audio software to make sure it matches. OPTIONS>AUDIO>GENERAL> press the ASIO button at the bottom of the window
that will bring up your M-audio mixer panel (make sure you open it that way, not from the systray).
on the HARDWARE TAB, check your sampling rate and make sure it's set to 44100.

arathiel,
We'll need information about your system to help further.
CPU, RAM, OS, we know about the Fast track, any other hardware?
Have you seen any error messages?
Many drivers are very picky about how they are installed. Did you follow the M-Audio instructions exactly(ie, don't let the Windows installer do it)?

What OS, XP or Vista? This is very important.

Good, that's in your favor at this point in time.
Do you have power management turned on? This can cause the computer to lose communication with a USB device.
Many times it is on by default with laptops.

Hmm. Just for grins, reboot your laptop, and check the physical connections on the USB cable. Switching to ASIO shouldn't cause you to lose the device. This is usually the preferred driver mode.
Tell us about any messages you get, or anything that seems off. Remember, we can't see what you see.

i restarted my computer and nuthin happened, installed the driver and still nuthin happened. so i still have no clue wat could possibly going wrong

arathiel - after you changed to ASIO driver mode - go back and look to make sure it did STAY in ASIO. if not, I'll have a solution for you to fix that.

Right on. My wing man's here.

ok i uninstaled everything and reinstalled, this time i installed maxis first and when i installed sonar a ran it a pop up saying that one of my usb devices does not support ASIO check ur sync settings in the control panel, but i dont know where that is and im worried that maybe this just wont work on my comp

ok this maybe random but would this work better if maybe i got the line 6 toneport ux2

yeah i did that the second time but no luck, it wouldnt really be scraping since i would be getting my money back and all, plus i have riffworks and line 6 set ups already work on my laptop

yeah i really want to thank everyone who gave me a hand with this, hopefully i wont have to come back once i got the line 6 lol

sorry - leave you, Robert! evening with the family and stuff. you know...NON-musical, non-recording kind of things!