Does TC electronics power core plug in system work well with Sonar?

I've been using Powercore for over a year now, never had the slightest problem. It performs brilliantly!!
Heard some have had problems with the UAD, though it has more users so the percentage with problems might not might not be bigger than for Powercore users.
I guess you could say that they are very similar........

In my opinion, the reverbs are where Powercore is better than UAD, while UAD seems to have better compression tools.
At least it sounds like that at my friends studio, he uses UAD in a Cubase SX3 studio.........
The Powercore reverbs are almost incomparable to Lexicon Pantheon or Sonitus, as it runs on a dedicated processor, it can
get away with heavier algorithms and such, so I guess it will be unfair to Sonitus and Lexicon
But: Powercore Classicverb is much richer, transparent and sonially much closer to natural reverb than Pantheon and Sonitus, at least in my ears.
However, I would also rate Sonitus above Pantheon, they're fantastic tools too, but if you want even higher quality plug-ins,
an add-on card like Powercore or Uad is highly recommended.
Haven't looked back once since I first got the Powercore..

The TC Power Core worked fine for me when I had it - no problems at all. However, I didn't think the plugs were all that great so I got a UAD-1 card instead. Tor is right, the UAD card does have more problems, but they are well documented and fairly easy to work around. The thing is the UAD card, imho, kicks the Power Core's hiney. The compression plugs of the UAD are simply awesome, as are the eq plugs. I'll agree the reverb is a 'bit' better on the Power Core, but the Dream Verb on the UAD is nothing to sneeze at (although I often just use the Sonitus verb to save myself the processing space on the UAD - I'm not much for reverb, I try to use it sparingly). I also love the UAD's Mastering EQ and Precision Limiter - truly excellent mastering tools.

But to each their own, there are lots of users who love the Power Core - liking plug-ins is similar to liking bands, it's mostly opinion and preference. And I certainly understand not wanting to install a card - the firewire connection is very cool.

Good luck!

I too have UAD-1 and PoCo. UAD-1 for compressor, PoCo for reverb - that I guess is the dominating opinion on their strengths. With only one card you soon run out of cpu, so I decided for one of each. Runs fine in Cubase SX3 ... Yes, I am waiting for the UAD-1/Sonar problem to be solved, then maybe I will return to Sonar which I find easier to use.

Tor, we have been through this several times and done all the tweaking and streamlining to no avail. Some of us also have RME, though Fireface 800, but that should make no difference. Try looping with AUD-1 plug-ins, particularly the Pultec, and particulaly some Pultecs on tracks and one on main bus. See if you can do that with no problems. Most of us can't.

I think it's been pretty well established by this point that it is a SONAR problem that most of us are having, not a general DAW/hardware issue. Like tombuur above, I can also run my UAD cards without a hitch in Cubase SX3...I can fill up both my UAD cards, fill up the PoCo, and still run for days without an error...I can also let it loop a couple of bars hundreds of times without so much as a click.

I'd rather be working in Sonar, but I also am working exlucsively in SX3 these days....but I still linger around the forum here, hoping for word of 4.03