It was here all along! Channel Tools

Oh yeah. It's great for that. Before I fully understood "delay" in its purest form I was manually nudging cloned clips to get Haas type delay. I didn't want to use plugs because... well they seem to do other stuff as well as the simple "move this ahead by x milliseconds".
 
Channel Tools... yeah just turn a dial and you're good to go. I put it on mono track clones and use it that way but I think it can be set up to do that without the need to use a separate track. Delay without all the extra guck and slapping around.
 
CT actually confuses the heck out of me because I still struggle with m-s, stereo, panning, etc crap but it certainly is one of the more useful dealymabobs we have. It seems to have been designed and included to overcome some of the on track limitations.
 
If they made it so you could insert VSTs into it and use them in parallel... that would make it knock down awesomesauce.

I've recently had the opposite problem - spotting the Logic equivalent of Sonar's channel tools :-)

DAWs are like word processors or graphics packages. If a particular function, like "bold" in a word processor, is available in one it's probable it is available in another. If it's a really basic function that's present in most then it will most likely be present in all.

Finding out what it's called and where it hides in "this particular DAW" can be quite a process though.

I've pretty much stopped buying any more plugins too...

Having as many 1176/la2a/ssl-bus compressors, and the quad eq giving both neve and so curves covers at least 90% of my needs...

Channel Tools? I've been using that for many things over the years... Delay is a nice touch... The mid-side control is there when I need it and mist often? The panning control so that I can adjust stereo widths and placement of the stereo image... I often want things to gave width without having either side glued to the edge!

Keni