DOES SONAR X2 WORK IN LINUX?

Nope. There might be some type of Linux Windows emulator but I seriously doubt it would run Sonar reliably. There are Linux based DAWs though. Google Ardour or Linux Studio.

Some Linux music info here (but not for SONAR) ...
http://www.digifreq.com/digifreq/discuss/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7871
 
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I am increasingly interested in what it would take to get all of my Sonar VSTs working in Linux, but I haven't begun to try. Has anyone done this?

Sonar X2 in Linux: Why would you want to do that to yourself? Mac-based DAW's are much closer to Linux than Sonar, but even then, I'd have to think that you're entering a world of pain. I'm a Linux guy for some things, such as Server Infrastructure, DNS, Web-caching, logging, and other interesting things, but I personally wouldn't even consider running Sonar, not even running as a V.M. or using Wine. Not even for a split-second.

gswitz  You are likely better off just using a DAW that runs in Linux natively like Ardour.  Wine and other VM solutions can work great but they usually fail miserably in applications where speed is an issue.  Even if you got it to launch, the time figuring out workarounds  might better be served learning workflow of programs that will undoubtedly run better.

Some of the same things that make Linux awesome also hinder it for things like music production.  The android branch is a prime example.  In theory android could be even faster than apple ios, but it's not even close when it comes to media applications because of the vast differences in distributions.  As ti is , Android had to shift further and further from mainstream linux development in order to to make it competitive with iphones and ipads.  In the video world these problems have been overcome mostly through borderline fanatical dedication and pricd considerations.  High end film work requires so much processing power that Linux options often come into play.  It would seem if high end programs like Nuke and Resolve can handle massive video data, that porting DAWS like Sonar should be possible.
 
My guess is that many of the companies that make mid-level products don't see any profit to doing so.   The media production programs that are most successful on Linux are either free, open source models or so high end that piracy is almost irrelevant.  Example:  I doubt a production house would spend 30k on custom control surfaces and then try to steal licenses for software they will undoubtedly need support for.

Beepster..not sure if it is as dismal as that.  Although commercial products like Sonar are less likely to take the Linux leap, there are plenty of amazing applications that are available for free on Linux that bring processing to ordinary people not available years ago.  Blender is a notch below Maya,zBrush and other commonly used commercial 3d animation apps....but not that big of a notch and it gets better all the time.  To get the power of Blender would have likely cost over 100k 15 years ago.  Ardour is amazing and the commrecial Harrison Mixbus is heavily based on Ardour.  The differences between Da Vinci Resolve and Resolve Lite is practically irrelevant to the hobbyist, meaning amateur film makers have access to professional grade color correction for free.

I certainly don't want to dissuade anyone from using Linux as a DAW. I love the fact that Ubuntu has become somewhat of a standard Linux, and it can run some serious applications now. I still find it more clumsy than Windows, but nobody can argue it's rock-solid platform and lower harddrive consumption. It's quite efficient!
 
But I personally would not try using Linux to emulate a DAW, regardless of how fast the emulation can run. Unless the DAW is tested and supported for that hardware, I would highly recommend against doing it to save some $$. Just ask anyone who's tried running MAC OS X on a PC, and you'll find very few of them successful, and even less than that number recommending MAC OS X running on a PC.
 
Sure, there's some success, but only in a perfect environment of hardware, drivers, and a little bit of luck, but I dare say that absolutely none of them said it performs faster than a real Mac, and that they didn't encounter some strange errors along the way.
 
With all of that said, emulating Sonar on a Linux machine in at least some stable method might be useful for editing or automating, things you may not need super speed to accomplish. I have a Mac Book Pro from 2012, right before the retina screens were released. From what I've seen, it performs well for DAW work, but it's a total dog for other applications, such as Camtasia, Photoshop, Mac Mail, and even this forum. It's a slow performer when it comes to multi-tasking. I won't consider using it for DAW work at all. As a VM, Sonar performs very poorly on this machine (I tried it here to test editing).
 
 

Ubuntu and various forks of it (I'm a big fan of Linux Mint for Linux beginners) are amazing in that they are much easier to use than most people would think when they hear thre word Linux.  Unfortunately, some of the speed advantages fall by the wayside.  For the true Linux geek, one of the biggest advantages is the ability to streamline by not adding all the bloat that comes with other OS's.  linux machines used fror pure processing power like a render farm typically forgo even using a GUI.
 
Beepster, if you are just recording, an old laptop with Audacity will probably do the trick.

with a faster computer i have done tasks like watched movies online with disk based linux distributions.

A friend of mine who does a lot of location recording uses Linux on a laptop as his backup. He splits the feed from the mics to his MacBook running ProTools and his Lenovo running Linux and Ardour.
 
Works real well for him.