Ableton type tricks on Sonar?

There's nothing specifically "Ableton" about that stuff at all, apart from the instrument sounds if Ableton's were used. The drums sound like a Live plugin, but that kind of tinny hard digital drum sound can be had or created easily enough if you want it. Personally I don't like any of the Ableton instruments/samples, but that's just me.

So. Eq (with automation), swept filters (or eq with a steep Q), delay, compression, delay, chorus, tremolo, pitch-shifting to create harmonies and more auto-tune artifacts than is generally considered wise would seem to be the way to go.

As for the video, 8+ minutes full of words saying nothing other than how wonderful everyone thinks everyone else is and how cool using standard electronic music processing on vocals is because, like, no-one's ever, like, done it, like, before, like. And how, like, cool am I and how cool are they!!!!! Like.

Painful. Though I guess I'm not, like, the target audience

Now, if you'll excuse me I have to go wash my ears and brain out.