Does SONAR (Platinum in this case) have a Chord identification option?

I agree, I've mentioned it several times here on the forums how nice it would be to have such a tool at our disposal.
However, if your know how to read music (which by your comment it seems you know theory) than it is pretty easy to digest what makes what chords. (9th, M3rds, exc).

http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR&language=3&help=Plug-ins.3.html#1630142
 

scook
http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR&language=3&help=Plug-ins.3.html#1630142
 

Looks promising, ill have a look at that later.  Thanks for the link.

I've never gotten good results out of the Cakewalk Chord Analyzer plugin.  I'm not exactly sure what it is doing most of the time.
 
If you want to know what chords are in a MIDI track (or that you are playing), try Insert Piz Here's midiChordAnalyzer
http://www.thepiz.org/plugins/?p=midiChordAnalyzer
 
It's an instrument.  Put your MIDI on it's input track (or your keyboard) it shows what the chord is.
 
You can then feed it's MIDI out to a real synth to hear it, just turn echo on it and the real synth.

As snaut2000 said, Sonar's built-in MIDI plugin "Chord Analyzer" does exactly this. I just recently found it. :) It shows the chords in realtime on a piano graphic as well as a guitar neck (I'm no guitarist, but I think it is one!).
 

 
I wish for 2 things for the Sonar Chord Analyzer:

• An option to show chords with flats instead (seems like Piz Here's midiChordAnalyzer can do that - thanks for the tip msorrels!)
• To integrate it into the Control Bar as a module. It is done like that in Logic, it's really cool. That way, it could be permanently visible, but take almost no screen estate.

msorrels
I've never gotten good results out of the Cakewalk Chord Analyzer plugin.  I'm not exactly sure what it is doing most of the time.
 
If you want to know what chords are in a MIDI track (or that you are playing), try Insert Piz Here's midiChordAnalyzer
http://www.thepiz.org/plugins/?p=midiChordAnalyzer
 
It's an instrument.  Put your MIDI on it's input track (or your keyboard) it shows what the chord is.
 
You can then feed it's MIDI out to a real synth to hear it, just turn echo on it and the real synth.

Thanks, that's a nice one!  Also shows the flats if you want to see them.
 

It does. Not great though.

cyberzip
Here is how a chord analyzer is built-in into Logic's control bar:
 
Bakers - please implement this in Sonar! :)
 
Here is a link to vote for an idea for this at the Bakery.

Unsurprisingly its got my vote.

Thepiz.org referenced above has a pretty hefty set of free plugins for MIDI. Be aware that they are MIDI plugins, so they will not appear in the audio FX list, but some of them are rather useful.

I don't need it, but the feature in Logic would make a great addition to SONAR for many users.

SigiZ58
+1 
 
Are you in Advertisement business ? :-)
 
Perfect presentation!

No, but I get called "Don Draper" a lot anyway... ;) Thanks, I just really dug that Logic feature!
 

mettelus
Thepiz.org referenced above has a pretty hefty set of free plugins for MIDI. Be aware that they are MIDI plugins, so they will not appear in the audio FX list, but some of them are rather useful.

But the Piz Here midiChordAnalyzer is a regular VST instrument as msorrels said above?

Many users use the phrase "MIDI plugin" when they are really VST instruments.  This is because VST doesn't actually have a MIDI plugin "type" but a VST instruments can process MIDI.  SONAR supports MFX MIDI plugins that can be applied to a MIDI track, those are a Windows DirectX thing.  I don't think very many DAW applications ever supported MFX plugins.  Which is too bad really.
 
The MIDI-oriented plugins at Thepiz.org are very useful, but I wouldn't get worked up about naming issues.  You just have to remember that VST plugins that process MIDI are instruments inside SONAR and can't be used like SONAR MFX MIDI plugins.  Which can be applied to MIDI tracks as effects.
 

cyberzip
abacab & msorrels - thanks for your input! Agreed that the MFX MIDI plugin standard is cool and underused! :)
 
For this purpose, it seems that the quickest way is using a MIDI (MFX) plugin (the Cakewalk Chord Analyzer), since the other alternative requires setting up routing between VST plugins.

Not really.  For example, just insert midiChordAnalyzer as a VST instrument, and set the MIDI input to omni.
 
Then any notes you press on any controller connected to Sonar will register on the display.  No need to route anything between plugins to make it work.

RSMCGUITAR
That's a staff, not a guitar neck.

Thanks. :)
 

abacab
Not really.  For example, just insert midiChordAnalyzer as a VST instrument, and set the MIDI input to omni.
 
Then any notes you press on any controller connected to Sonar will register on the display.  No need to route anything between plugins to make it work.

Ah, should've guessed, that was obvious! :) Thanks!