vondano
ok cool!
 
what I was trying to do is add a console emulator pluggin (from waves) to all my audio tracks, but i cant find out how to do it without having to manually add the pluggin track by track...

For that I would use a buss. Route all the channels to that buss and use the FX you want there. It will effect all those tracks.

that pluggin is particular in the way at it is non-linear... it is a bit complicated to explain (and english is not my 1st language) but the point is to use multiple instances that add harmonic content, and them sum it up in a bus...
 
but i really have to use 1 instance/track...
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rpqNRtKFIk

I see your point, Vondano. 

Jeez, you're just not liking any of the answers eh?
 
Well, to future-proof yourself you should make a track template with this stuff added so you never have to have this problem again. Boom!
 
as for the current project, if none of the other solutions are gonna work, just drop it in on one track, then CTRL-drag it to the others to copy it in. It's a manual process, but if the tracks are all grouped near each other and you have them expanded just enough to see their FX Bins you can blast this out in about a minute or so.
 

ahaha sorry! i dont mean to sound like an ass! :D
 
this is really the way I gotta use that pluggin!
 
yeah i saved a template for future project!
 
thanx!
 
 

So it is a few years later so is this option available. So lets say I want to...e.g.  add VU meter to 12 tracks at once? (Not a Sonar effect)
 
Thanks
John

Big-John
So it is a few years later so is this option available. So lets say I want to...e.g.  add VU meter to 12 tracks at once? (Not a Sonar effect)
 
Thanks
John

select all the tracks you want to add the effect to,
hold down CTRL and insert the plug in.
its as easy as that.

chuckebaby

Big-John
So it is a few years later so is this option available. So lets say I want to...e.g.  add VU meter to 12 tracks at once? (Not a Sonar effect)
 
Thanks
John

select all the tracks you want to add the effect to,
hold down CTRL and insert the plug in.
its as easy as that.

Yes I tried this and it does not work. I tried this by using the insert audio FX "+" sign on the first track and even trying to drag it onto the 1st track from the Plug-In folder. I am trying to add LP-64 EQ and it does not work. Is there an on off setting for this?

I wouldn't use that EQ on so many tracks. It may seem like a good idea Linear phase and all but you don't need to use it that way. You only need it for mastering and not as much as people think. Its a special type EQ. One in which a problem with not using it will cause sound that is not wanted i.e artifacts. For the vast majority of eq QC is plenty good enough.     

Big-John
 
Yes I tried this and it does not work. I tried this by using the insert audio FX "+" sign on the first track and even trying to drag it onto the 1st track from the Plug-In folder. I am trying to add LP-64 EQ and it does not work. Is there an on off setting for this?

This feature (adding effects to multiple tracks at once) was added to the August 2016 early release program for Sonar.  To quote one of the features added in this early release:

"Quick Group Insert FX. You can now insert the same plug-in across tracks using quick group and right-clicking a FX Bin."

The exact version where this feature was added is "Version 22.8.0.BUILD 18"