Bad VST quality while in Sonar X1

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Hey all..new to the community here. So I figured I'd reach out for some assistance.

I am a Sonar X1 user, and I recently starting using Amplitube3 as a VST placed in a standard audio track FX bin. When I am using the Amplitube3 program outside of sonar as a standalone application, it sounds great, but when using it as a VST, the quality is absolutely horrible. Poor quality guitar sounds..very poor. I am not sure if this is a driver setting issue, because I have tried ASIO and WDM at 48khz / 24 and 96khz / 64 (meaningless I know, but just for testing I set it that high) with no success.

Before I purchased my Profire2626, I was using a SoundBlaster X-fi, with a Line6 guitar port, and for whatever reason I was able to record in Sonar using the Amplitube program as a stand alone. The sound as I was hearing it, was being recorded..and it was not just the plain clean signal when playing the track back within Sonar(as if input monitoring was on, but no FX in the track bin) The track was configured as my input being the SB-xfi sound card, and outut was the SBxfi card. Driver was WDM. Now,the Sonar project master bus is configured with my profire as the input and profire software return 1 as the output.. My profire is set at 48khz / 24 bit with a latency buffer of 64. I did try setting that higher as well with no success.

Now when I hit record on the audio track and play with the stand alone version running, it doesn't record anything but the plain track.. as if it never picked up the sound from the standalone version, just the raw wav data.

Is there a specific way that Sonar needs to be configured to allow the standalone app sound to be recorded in real time? Or make the sound quality at playback, using a VST, sound like the quality that I am hearing? Either way, I would just like my Amplitube to record and play back as I am hearing it, weather its a VST or not.
I tried reaching out on the Sonar forums but was unable to get help there. Any assistance would be great.

I'm using Win7 64bit, sonar version is X1, 32bit. 6gb ram, Intel I7 930 processor.

Thanks,
 
A little hard to follow your post so I have a few questions...

Does Sonar record the input of your guitar cleanly? As in, is the audio messed up if you turn off Amplitube or is it specifically the sound in Amplitube that is getting weird?

All your drivers up to date?
 
A little hard to follow your post so I have a few questions...

Does Sonar record the input of your guitar cleanly? As in, is the audio messed up if you turn off Amplitube or is it specifically the sound in Amplitube that is getting weird?

All your drivers up to date?

Apparently it's coming in clean as far as I can tell.. it's only playback which causes the issue. Maybe at recording it's picking up the clean plain guitar raw wave data, which makes it sound fuller..and on playback, that clean signal isn't there.

My drivers are up to date for the profire 2626 using ASIO drivers.
 
Apparently it's coming in clean as far as I can tell.. it's only playback which causes the issue. Maybe at recording it's picking up the clean plain guitar raw wave data, which makes it sound fuller..and on playback, that clean signal isn't there.

Maybe? Simple to find out if the input is the problem or the VST is the problem. Turn off the VST and see if the untreated audio you've recorded sounds OK.
 
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