What is the difference between z3ta+_fx and z3ta+-fx2

Hi - I'm a new user in Sonar Producer and looking through different Audio plug-ins.
 
In my recent release of Sonar, I have an Audio FX for zsta+, which then gives me two options - z3ta+_fx and z3ta+-fx2. When I look at these - they have the same sounds in each of them.  Does anybody know what the diference is?

John Larson


Hi - I'm a new user in Sonar Producer and looking through different Audio plug-ins.
 
In my recent release of Sonar, I have an Audio FX for zsta+, which then gives me two options - z3ta+_fx and z3ta+-fx2. When I look at these - they have the same sounds in each of them.  Does anybody know what the diference is?

I found this at Sound On Sound.  It's OLD information, because there have been changes to Sonar but I think it may help explain.  I am not at my DAW or I'd get the info from the manual.

But here's the article from the mag ....

OK, this is a Sonar workshop, but after all z3ta+ is a stand-alone Cakewalk product too, and it has a feature that, ironically, doesn't work in Sonar but does work in Cubase 4: the ability to send a track's audio not just through the effects section, but through the z3ta+ filters and VCAs as well. This is possible because Cubase can assign a MIDI track to a VST plug-in effect (it doesn't just do instruments), so you can trigger the envelope generators from a keyboard.
When you install Sonar 7, it actually installs two versions of the z3ta+ effects section: z3ta+_fx and z3ta+_fx2. The one with the fx2 suffix is the one you want.
In Cubase, insert z3ta+_fx2 into the insert of a VST audio channel (of course, you should also have audio on this track, so that there's something to process). Create a MIDI track and assign its output to z3ta+_fx2. Unless you want to play the synth section at the same time, go through each oscillator and turn each wave to 'Off'. Now your MIDI keyboard can trigger the envelopes; you can play with the filter parameters, drive parameters from LFOs, and so on. Fun stuff