Creative audio editing in Sonar 8...?

Hey, guys...
 
 
What's the best way to creatively edit audio in Sonar 8???
 
Is there a way to create pitch(or whatever) envelopes and such on an audio track so as to be able to creatively twist up your audio as it plays.
 
Is there also a quick destructive method to doing this?
 
V-Vocal doesn't seem suitable for doing this to an audio file? Not from what I've managed so far anyway.
 
Also, I find if I try to apply audio effects directly to an audio file, I find auditioning, or closing the audition rather seems to crash Sonar completely.
 
Cubase seemed to have a very smooth seemless way of editing audio (and midi), I find Sonar 8 a bit clunky, but it's what I have and what I work with, though I've gotten more used to it over time, I still find a lot of tasks seem not to easy to figure out how to achieve or just carry out, such as this audio editing.
 
When I double click to open an audio file, there seems little I'm able to do to edit it from within that window, nothing I click seems to do anything.
 
Any help here would be appreciated. 

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It was the very first thing that threw me off with Sonar as I too was used to Wave Lab ( same as Cubase) and it's powerful audio editing.  You click a track and there's no wave editing.??
Sonar does zero. What you have to do is use the "Tool" menu and the highlighted track will open in a separate wave editing program.
I think most use Abilton Live for real time creative stuff. Sonar is just a sequencer and multi track tape deck with a lot of menu's.