Middleman
You are selecting a lot of options which have nothing to do with your problem. I suggest you read the manual to get up to speed.
This is a useless response. Why did you spend the time to write it? If you have such wisdom, dare deign to share it with him versus the tired "Read the manual" admonition. Just help or go contribute somewhere that it might be respectable.
Cold Chili, is your Master bus assigned to the Echo card's active output? If so, then you have an issue.
Another way to check is to just assign one of the audio tracks directly to the audio card's output, and bypass the Master bus.
The Master bus setup is done that way mainly so you can affect all of the tracks at once in one main bus track, with a single volume control, pan and any effects that you add to that Master track. I've seen projects that don't use a master track at all, using no additional effects and using just the main output sliders and pans for control of the final mix. Basic, but it works.
Also, if I read your other wording correctly, you have a misunderstanding of how Sonar uses the outputs of your soundcard. Each track by default is "stereo" (left-right). Sonar will generally want to send its stereo outputs to one "set" (1-2 or 3-4 pair) of audio outputs. It won't send to both from one track or one bus (Master is a bus). Again, a track or a bus will be assigned to one audio output -- either the 1-2 or the 3-4 stereo outs. This is the basic way it will operate.
If you want to have the same output to both output pairs, you could duplicate each track and send the original tracks to 1-2 and the duplicates to 3-4. I understand that you are trying to deal with a funny speaker situation due to the cable length. If your outputs to the speakers are using 1-2 for left and 3-4 for right, this duplication method would get your overall output to be stereo, but you have to try to understand how it is doing this (and how each of the outputs is wasting one side of its pair) so that you have the concept.
But once your cables will reach correctly, you will find that you just use one audio pair (one output assignment) per track or bus for the most conventional way of using the system. A second output (your 3-4) may not even be needed, as many just use a second output for sending to a separate mixer input(s) for affecting that output differently. In modern-day software like Sonar, that kind of thing can be done in the program mixer with busses.
Jon
post edited by Tallsomeone - 2011/01/31 05:44:01