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I did allready do that and more...... very tiresome..... finally I found something that seems to meet my needs, it's called "External Insert plug-in" and is included in the Studio and Producer versions of SonarX.. Thx though 4 the input!!

How do you record your guitar with your Roland-V? Guitar -> Input1L| RolandVS100- Preamp|USB out -> USB in |Sonar X1 Audio Workstation - VSTfx MixerMonitor| USB out -> USB in|RolandVS100|Main out->Headphones When you have that scenario setup, you can hear your guitar as you play/record it... right? Yes, I control everything through the DAW, mixing and the effects. I'd assume the only difference is when the specific track in use on your Roland is either set for "monitor" (record) or listen/mix. Don't know what you mean here, different from what? I use the monitoring in the DAW (buttons: mute, arm, solo, monitor) Your Roland manual should clearly explain this whether IT's how I just mentioned or via USB? Again, I don't know what you mean.. What is IT? I believe the Roland's are more advanced that what I use to use (Tascam 788). The outputs maybe...Your unit has more control strips, mine only one, but then I do most things on the DAW. Maybe I should have made clearer, I want to hook the pod up more as an FX processor. Also while playing back dry tracks~on the DAW!!!

Thx, that clears it up a little. But when you say "direct monitoring" do you mean through the mixer on my Roland? In other words not through Sonar. That would not work unless I also route all the other virual Sonar Virtual Intruments, right? Also, why not use USB? Or has that to do with the fact that you can only have 1 audio interface when using Asio (I read that somewhere)? Why is this so hard? Can't I just make an FX bin/strip? Anyway thanks, maybe this is more a DAW (Sonar) discussion than a Line6 one. But it's so frustrating finding out how stuff will work out in your specific environment. I think some of this stuff should be in the manuals. I.e. How to integrate the 500x in an excisting studio as an effectsprocessor!

But do you then also use the USB? I don't get it, sorry.

I'm leaning towards buying a POD HD500x, mainly as an effects processor for my home studio, my computer is a bit old and it can't handle all that VST violence. I'd like to be able to record the dry signal and listen to the wet signal at playback (on a single track) or while monitoring (through SonarX1). N.B. The Pod will not be the main audio interface. For monitoring and playback I will be using the MainOut of my Roland V-Studio 100. I've loads of outputs and inputs on that, including spdif. What would be the best way of connecting the Pod in this scenario? Also(maybe) what I need to do concerning: routing in- and output for tracks & creating busses in Sonar?