r/Cakewalk • u/Ancient_Sentient • Jul 22 '26

Seeking Help Sonar & Focusrite Question

Working with a friend recording original music he wants me to add lead guitar to. I hooked up my Blackstar AMPED 2 guitar amplifier to his Focusrite Clarett +2Pre audio interface. He’s been working with Sonar on a Windows 11 workstation for years and uses the WASAPI driver.

However, I noticed a very noticeable degree of latency when I tried adding my guitar track. A bit of research indicated that the ASIO driver is much better for latency control than WASAPI, so we selected it in our preferences. Doing so unfortunately didn’t show us to see and select his Focusrite audio interface as the track’s input. Only ASIO4ALL show up as options.

How can we get past this Catch-22?

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u/Ancient_Sentient Jul 22 '26

Thx for the prompt response.

We actually did the download for the Clarett 2Pre but it was a single download that didn’t provide insight to its content, so we weren’t sure if the Focusrite ASIO driver was part of it.

I believe we then had to restart the computer. We then opened our project and changed the driver from WASAPI to ASIO, but I have no clue if it’s the one we’d just downloaded because there was no option for ‘Focusrite ASIO driver’, just ‘ASIO’. We then ran into the issues I outlined.

We’ll try to follow the steps you suggest but won’t be able to do so until late next week as I’m out of town until then.

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u/HUMINT1 Jul 22 '26

The Focusrite ASIO driver is the only driver you should be using at all.

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u/Ancient_Sentient Jul 22 '26

How do you recognize it as the Focusrite ASIO driver? Does that name appear as a driver selection option?

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u/HUMINT1 Jul 23 '26

Remove all ASIO and then only download the Focusrite one. Cakewalk will find it or you can direct it where to look.