[Implemented] Realtime internal recording.

Can you explain actually what happened? (what is the detail of "****ed up?"). A crash? From the sound of what you are writing you are saying that rendering with a dummy clip is just slow?
 
Well this is something I've wanted anyway. 
 
Cheers...

I'm just asking what he means by ***ked up, and I have backed up and agreed with his proposals Scook.
Yup will edit that last line out as it is irrelevant sorry.

That's weird. Undo did nothing?
If you have steps to reproduce it would be great if you could throw us a new thread here:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Problem-Reports-f77.aspx

Anyway I still agree with the feature request.

Cheera

Voted. Not something I'd use a lot, at least not in the past, but the more I play with Reaktor...
 

Historically it's been said that it is to prevent simpletons introducing feedback loops

Stupidly enough this was one feature my POS sound blaster Audigy card could perform, it had a little GUI mixer. Each source had a few options and "REC" had the "What you hear" option. 
I was so dumb I didn't know Cakewalk Guitar Studio had an Export feature, so I used to set Wave Lab in record mode and flip back to GS and hit play. I did this for a year! But this make me think I probably could have set an Audio track in Cakewalk to also record the output of the sound card. 
 
I know a What you Hear option is probably not possible with a proper ASIO audio interface, but are there not a few interfaces that allow loop back in the software routing? 
 
Anyhow I'll vote for this feature even though I don't think I'd use it, I think a lot of people would for live synth tweaking. I have this KVR freebie "Warp Delay"  that would be best to record that way. 

This is all true. It does not change the fact that Cakewalk has used feedback loops as a reason for not implementing this feature. There are other software solutions to the problem such as VoiceMeeter. I intentionally bought an interface with more I/O than I need just for this purpose. I also agree it would be a nice feature to have, along with real time effect recording in audio tracks.

As per:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/2949976

At present Sonar X3 cannot record plug-in effects or synth output, and this is a BIG deal for people who own synths or controllers with multiple outs. The most that can happen is a bounce which is far too time consuming in a lot of scenarios...   For use case and better understanding of the requirement please check:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Waveform-Preview-m2949348.aspx

Please can we have more flexibility with outputs in Sonar ! :)

Quotes that may persuade you:

Scook: "SONAR cannot record plug-in effect or synth output without a plug-in recorder in the FX bin to save the output to a wave file outside of SONAR or use a loopback through the audio interface." "The subject comes up every now and then, Cakewalk has never provided the capability. "

Sanderxpander: "Ableton does this just fine and I've used it effectively in the past."

CakeAlexS "I have given up on religion now I realise I cannot do this. I have come to the conclusion that there is no God and I will be spending more time with the womens 5 a side hockey team than with my Native Instruments devices".  

If that doesn't persuade you nothing will... I make light of this but it is a serious request.
 
(note there is a workground using a muted clip, see references).

+1 Funny I was looking for that feature today. I wanted to output audio track (with TH2 on it) --> input of another audio track to record the movement of microphone. Perhaps you can automate that, I just don't know how.

This is a simple example of an application for this, though it is more useful for random parameter switching synths.
http://youtu.be/IDCA2ybiOqU

Vas
How do I change to the universe where logic prevails.
 

Buy a mac?

gswitz
You can buy plugins that do this. They aren't expensive. Then you can capture the output to a file from any location in Sonar where you can put a VST.

Please show me the way.
 

swamptooth

Vas
How do I change to the universe where logic prevails.
 

Buy a mac?

You mean Logic.
I mean common sense!
 
 

Vas

gswitz
You can buy plugins that do this. They aren't expensive. Then you can capture the output to a file from any location in Sonar where you can put a VST.

Please show me the way.
 

http://www.meldaproduction.com/plugins/product.php?id=MRecorder
 
It's free.
 
Once recorded, you'll have to import the wave file to the track of your choice.

You're still not recording audio; You're recording MIDI, and the Freeze operation is generating the audio. The waveform preview is just a low-res visual representation of what the track meter is registering. You can get the same result by recording MIDI in a Simple Instrument track, and bouncing to another track. But you're still generating audio offline after the fact.
 
There is a workaround involving bouncing the soft synth track to another track with Fast Bounce disabled, and Live Input enabled, but it's more trouble than it's worth.
 
It'a best just to go ahead and create a loopback path, either with physical patching or in your interface's virtual mixer if it provides this functionaity.