I vote for this. It's been on my list for a long time.

I'm scratching my head ...as to why not with patching the loop, by whatever means and muting where needed.  Yes, some flip of the buttons within Sonar would be nice, but most people at this point in recording should be able to do this with minimal hassle.
 
However...the idea mentioned earlier about a newb expecting to record their VSTi live is most excellent.  Why would they think otherwise?

Where do I vote for this?

It is hard to believe that at
http://www.cakewalk.com/CakeTV/SONAR-University/Get-Started
and the manual
http://www.cakewalk.com/support/doc.aspx?DLID=1005
have no instructions on how to record the audio from a VSTi.
So I looked at the 38 MB X3 Reference Guide
http://www.cakewalk.com/support/doc.aspx?DLID=1002
and again only how to record midi only. Perhaps I did not look hard enough?

I did a search for “record” at the forum
http://forum.cakewalk.com/SONAR-f70.aspx
and only seven items came up. That was not much help.
 
In our modern day I feel that one thing that any DAW should easily is to record audio from a VSTi in real-time. As one member said it is expected that Sonar being a top DAW will have this feature. Users are amazed to learn that is not possible in Sonar. They finally spend hours on research and in my case three days trying to get this to work. What a waste of time for all of us Sonar supporters.
 
I see many threads asking about how to record audio from a VSTi on real time. Cakewalk should by now realize that this is a very desirable feature to implement. They have not after so many version updates and so they will never do so in my opinion.
 
So, my feature request is that Cakewalk put in their manual and in the forums an official statement that Sonar cannot easily record audio from a VSTi in real-time. There are as scook to quote him directly summarized:

“Plug-in output is not recorded in SONAR. The only solutions are VST recorders, loopback (with physical and virtual audio connections) and bounce using live input. That is it, there is no more.”
 
Officially state that Sonar has been designed to disallow any real-time recording of any and all VSTi’s. This will reduce the threads on this subject and save the members hours spent on research.
 
List all the applicable threads:

 
If you are happy with how recording the VSTi is currently done you have company.
 
Midi and external audio can be recorded in real time. No-one asking that to first freeze the tracks and then to bounce.
 
1. For me it is workflow.
2. the bounce clip may not be identical to what I recorded. Some randomization from the VST and VSTi will not be reproduced properly.
3. Cubase which I dropped for Sonar can do this so I was expecting that all great DAW's can record the audio from a VSTi in real time. 
4. I am not crazy about work-arounds. Yes perhaps if I do adopt them I may get used to them.
 
The FR I am proposing here is not to start a debate as to why but to inform other users as stated in the OP. The why and how debate is going on in other threads.

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Just to clarify that this will not work for this feature inside SONAR before I share this so not to confuse people.
 
The only thing I know of that does a similar feature elegantly is Geist. Geist comes with a very small and convenient audio tap VST called "Spitter" which can be inserted anywhere you can insert an audio VST. All it does it simply create an "audio out" routing that can used by Geist's sampling engine to record "what you hear." Unfortunately, that audio out is only scripted to be used by Geist (which make sense), since Geist internally does not route that signal back into the audio engine while sampling (essentially the muting required to be effective).
 
Spitter is a very simple VST (no bells or whistles), but seems the same basic principle could be done within SONAR itself... VST tap an audio signal which can be recorded into a muted audio track.
 
Again, Spitter's audio out does not appear inside SONAR, they are only visible to Geist's sampling algorithm so this not a workaround to this functionality within SONAR.

Jatoth,
 
Thanks for the reminder as I am collecting all the possible work-arrounds.
I shake my head when I read them. Tears are rolling down my cheeks. Oh,
well onions do this for me all the time.
 
I will evaluate them and attempt to implement them and experiment with workflow.
However I am examining other DAW's and two will be releasing new versions shortly.
I dropped Cubase as a contender due to a couple personal work flow issues and no ARA.
Recording the VSTi in real time can be the deal-breaker for me though there are a few
others troublesome areas I hope to resolve as I learn to use this very fine DAW.
 
I had gone into Sonar with such great anticipation and so early in the process of learning
to use it I stumbled and fell and time will tell if this caused any brain damage. So hj?kll
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My vote was for a simple and general solution that do this and more:
 
For an record armed track - ability to select recording source.
The source could be any tracks output.
And one could disable Echo monitoring if such a source is selected - if there is a dangerous route for feedback.
 
Reaper has implemented this - for both audio and midi.
This means you can use an audio->midi plug - and record the midi from that to another track.
And you can record synth outputs or tracks after fx too.

the ability to record a synth's output in realtime would be incredibly convenient: rather then faffing about with loopback cables or other VSTs, to just select that synth's output as an input on an audio track
(ref: http://forum.cakewalk.com/Really-incredible-that-we-still-can39t-record-a-soft-synth39s-output-in-real-time-m2869414-p5.aspx )

"record a soft synth's output in real time"      Yes vote!
 
A very important feature to have as part of any DAW. I was astounded to find out I could not do this with Sonar Producer x3. Will have to rethink my switch to Sonar DAW if this is not integrated going forward.