Sonar X2 and Maschine 1.8 (seth OR BILL!!-i know you are in here.....HELP ME DUDE)

So, after a myriad of problems, I took the plunge and bought a solid state drive.  I came back to the studio, pulled my old hard drive, loaded a fresh win 64 on to the solid state drive, downloaded all windows updates.  Then installed Sonar, downloaded and installed all updates.  Installed Maschine, got all updates, and now I have the craziest behavior ever...here it is:
 
When i insert Maschine as a simple instrument, it loads up fine.  I hit play on the transport, Maschine starts up right in sync.  I can hit the pads, all working great.  NOW, when I arm the track to record, it gets totally crazy.  I arm the track, hit play/record and all starts as normal.  Then I start playing Maschine.....the pads register my hits, and flash, just as normal.  however, the pattern that I am playing ALWAYS starts one measure BEHIND where the transport in Sonar says it is.  Like a time warp....I play, then hear the pads that I hit in PERFECT TIME one measure behind.  Tempo does not matter.  I have changed it from 100 to 130....always a measure behind.
 
Here is where it gets stranger.....If I go in and change the metronome to 0, got back out, arm the same track and push record, all of my pad hits are in perfect time.  If I go in and change the metronome to preroll 2 measures, my pad hits on Maschine are then in perfect time 2 measures behind.
 
I have fought this thing for 2 days since my fresh install.  The solid state drive is worth it's wait in GOLD for anyone wanting to know.  It really flows like glass with the interface.  But damn...damn...damn.......I'm right back onto the forums again with problems.  I have already fully uninstalled Maschine and put it back on...I even rolled it back to 1.5...same problem.  I'm tapping out.  Anybody got anything for me?  Seems to be a metronome problem from Sonar...but I really have no clue.

Bigboi,
    I have had the same exact problem in the past.  Switching the metronome count in to 0 always fixes it.  Everything will show up exactly 1 measure late even when you play it in time. 
    I never used Mashine but I will have it happen with various other soft synths.  The odd thing is, sometimes it will do it, sometimes it will not.  Settings never change.

Thank GOD...at least I am not crazy.  By the way Seth...you guys should know that the main reason I have stuck it out with X1 is that I see you and Ryan and Willy and others ACTIVELY in here trying to sort out our problems.  I almost jumped ship to Studio One, but your support has kept me around.  And check out the joined date...been here a while.

To add on, since Mike said he's experienced this issue with other plugins, I would guess its an issue with SONAR. For now, just record with no count-in. Hopefully we can resolve this issue sooner rather than later.

SP

I don't like to use maschine as a plugin and someone told me about a rewire plugin check out the demo
http://www.energy-xt.com/index.php?id=0115

I'm on 64bit to it works for me its worth a try

Wonder why i never had this before I reloaded? I have not changed anything, just reloaded onto the ssd.  I had Maschine working great before.  Oh well, I will keep playing with it.  Do me a favor though and let me know when you have time to talk to the techs about it.  I'd like to know if there is a fix on the way sometime soon.  Your workarounds will work for now.  Do you have to have the metronome trigger an external synth only, or can I setup tts, load an instrument and let it trigger that track (not to fond of having to mute and unmute all the time.) Again...thanks ...DUDE. "Careful man...there's a beverage here"-my favorite quote.

should be in "hardware"

Which ones don't you agree with Susan? Maybe the moderators can take a hint.

Maschine is software that can use an optional controller. Since the issue is with SONAR and Maschine this thread will stay here.

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 ... 

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?

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.

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 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...