Wow, that's awesome. This will really open up some serious studio creativity, and so many folk have asked about it over the years. I can't wait to see how they handle it!
 

Not to get all Debbie Downer on this but this does seem like something that rips right into the internal guts of the program.
 
So def take your time on this if that is the case and test the frack out of it.
 
But yeah... ultra cool and the upshot, if it is indeed digging into the heart of the code, will be I bet they can find and patch a bunch of other crap along the way and open new avenues for future goodies.
 
They did mention how as they hack and patch they leave big open doors for themselves to add stuff that were previously impossible.
 
So maybe I'm actually being a Patty Positive with a dash of Carla Cautious.
 
Man... I need a date.

Beepster
 
Man... I need a date.

...or just a healthy dose of VCA groups...

Very good +1

Patty Positive with a dash of Carla Cautious!  Beep... you're a hoot!
 
Really lovin' the moves bein' made by da bakers...
 

bronsoncox
http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/SONAR/Rolling-Updates#start
 
From the 'Up Next' section of the Rolling Updates page

cool :-) there were quite a few asking for that ... and Cake did listen once again. 2 thumbs up for the new way of doing things

Fantastic. I've been wanting this feature for ages. Curious to see the precise detail of the implementation.

I remember Noël talking about how Sonar processes audio streams and he said (if I remember carefully) that internally there are no differences between tracks and busses.

Perhaps it won't be that big a job. Not minimising the effort just saying that it probably won't take a complete Sonar rewrite. I think most of the work will be in the making sure that unwanted side effects don't occur.

mudgel
. I think most of the work will be in the making sure that unwanted side effects don't occur.

I think there is a plugin for that...

WTH even I didn't know this was announced! Someone decided to turn up the heat on me lol :) 
The trickiest part of this is not so much the actual routing. As you know we already can route and mix streams from anywhere via sidechains - thats how sidechaining works. The engine has been designed to handle pretty much any arbitrary routing so thats the least of the problem. The hardest part is doing the infrastructure for virtual ports, and recording virtual ports itself which is very complex. If it turns out the way were planning, this will be a really powerful and elegant feature.