monitor vox through verb

Does your Focusrite interface not have DSP for direct monitoring that you can enable?
 

Charles, I have a Focusrite Scarlett audio interface.  Here's how I do it.
 
1. Track you're going to record on, all set up, receiving the direct input from your microphone.  Input echo is on. Routes to a preferred bus you have.
2. Extra bus set up (I call it Live Monitor).  On this bus add a reverb effect.  Since it's on a bus, set the reverb effect to fully wet.
3. Add a Send from your track that you're recording on to that Live Monitor bus, and add in Send volume to suit your needs.
 
This works fine for recording/tracking.
 
On playback turn off the Send to the Live Monitor bus to hear how it sounds with your regular track mix.  You don't need input echo actually for that track at that point either.

Craig Anderton suggested a great idea for lowering latency issues on weaker computers while tracking. He suggested bouncing the whole song to a stereo track and muting everything but that and the audio track you are recording.

Seems to work whenever I've had a latency conundrum.

OK lawajava - I have the Scarlett also. I followed yr steps. Haven't had enough time yet to play with it, but here's what I got:
I have to engage the Sonar input echo in order to hear the verb bus...not sure why as I don't know what the input echo button actually does - reroute the signal??
When it's engaged I still hear a delay...I could lower the latency as was suggested but a prefader send + mute the track I'm recording seems to work to eliminate the delay. I still need to test it more. 
Do you do any special settings in the mix control? They mostly seem to be for power users. 
 

lawajava
Craig Anderton suggested a great idea for lowering latency issues on weaker computers while tracking. He suggested bouncing the whole song to a stereo track and muting everything but that and the audio track you are recording.

Seems to work whenever I've had a latency conundrum.

Actually I suggested archiving, not muting, as that disconnects the tracks from the CPU. 

Charles, okay, a bit more detail:
 
Scarlett MixControl.  Mix 1 Tab.  Leftmost channel (Analog 1/2 In). Let's say you've got a microphone plugged into 1.
Routing under sliders: Mix1 L to Monitor Output 1, Mix1 R to Monitor Output 2
Input buttons at bottom set to Line (not Instrument). 
 
Settings button at bottom of Mix Control - set to 2.0 ms if you can do that.
 
In Sonar Platinum have an audio track ready to record your microphone. Let's call this track Vox1.
 
Also have that Vox1 track with an output to a bus.  Let's call that bus "Vox" and have that Vox bus point to a Master bus.
 
Set up an additional bus called (for example): Live Monitor.
 
Here's a tip (what I do).  Actually have two Live buses.  One called Live Monitor, one called Live Verb.  Each of those buses should route to the Master bus.
 
Having two allows you to definitely increase the volume of what you're tracking/recording (put it in the front of the mix in your headphones) and also allows very easy balancing of how much verb you want in your ear.
 
On the Live Verb bus add a Verb effect, set to 100% wet. 
 
On the Vox1 track, first you have your track output going to the Vox bus.
second, you add a Send on that track to Live Monitor (which is your dry monitor, allows you to add volume)
third, add a second Send on the Vox1 track to the Live Verb bus.
 
Turn the input monitor only on the Vox1 track.
 
Turn on the Sends on for Vox1.  They start at 100%, but you can move the send volume down.
 
You can reduce the Live Verb send to much less than the Live Monitor send and you'll have a light reverb touch, or you can increase it.
 
Alternatively, you can just have one Live Monitor send (with the reverb on it).  But I've found having two makes setting the adjustment of how much reverb and the overall monitor volume for that track super easy to control.
 
When playing back the track after recording it, simply turn off the Sends and you'll hear the track as it should play at normal volume without the "live" bus reverb.
 
Personally, I like bringing to the forefront in my headphones the monitor volume of the track I'm recording (leaving the rest of the song at a lower volume)
 
 
 

I'm up & running. One send is enough for me so it's easier. Thanks again.