Don't know if this is a dumb question...I've been using workarounds for so long I haven't tried in eons...but does Sonar Platinum let you send a track to more than one bus?  And if so, how?
 
And if it still doesn't...we'll geeze louise, why the heck not?
 
Thanks.

I'm wondering if I misunderstand you, because I do this all the time. You can have as many sends to different buses on a track as you like.
 
 

Yes it does Ol Pal.  John T above has the way to do it. Use sends they are your friend.  

No...not a send...that's how I do it now.  I mean just the ability to insert more than one bus on a track so it gets sent to two different busses.  Like on analog consoles of old.  The easiest (read lazy-assed...yet most efficient) way to set up parallel compression, say.  Buss 1 is your main drum buss...Buss 2 is your squash the livin bejeezus out of it.  Route to both and season to taste in the mix.  Also, it's more intuitive...at least to me and a bunch of other old school engineers. 
 
Guess not then.  Fine and dandy.  I'll just keep "sendin" as per usual :-)
 
 
PS: I changed the title to, hopefully, avoid confusion.

I'm not sure I can see what the distinction is, in functional terms.

Welp...usually all you really want to send to the compression buss is the kick and/or the snare...perhaps the toms but more often than not you don't want to send the overheads and room and such.  Sometimes but not usually.  In order to accomplish that with sends you need to set up at least two extra separate busses...one compressed heavily and one not or only lightly compressed and then, at least to me, route them in a rather unintuitive fashion.  If I could simply route the tracks I chose (i.e. snare and kick) in my track view to two separate busses (and not three) I could just control everything with one extra buss and one extra fader and generally not have to worry about sending or returning.  Like I said, it's probably just my lazy way of working.  And I've never been able to do it with Sonar anyway so...no biggie.

John T
I'm not sure I can see what the distinction is, in functional terms.

Me either. 

yorolpal
Welp...usually all you really want to send to the compression buss is the kick and/or the snare...perhaps the toms but more often than not you don't want to send the overheads and room and such.  Sometimes but not usually.  In order to accomplish that with sends you need to set up at least two extra separate busses...one compressed heavily and one not or only lightly compressed and then, at least to me, route them in a rather unintuitive fashion.  If I could simply route the tracks I chose (i.e. snare and kick) in my track view to two separate busses (and not three) I could just control everything with one extra buss and one extra fader and generally not have to worry about sending or returning.  Like I said, it's probably just my lazy way of working.  And I've never been able to do it with Sonar anyway so...no biggie.

I don't know why think you need 3 busses?
 
2 will do.
 
Route the OUTPUT of ALL of your drum tracks to buss 1 - compress lightly
Insert a SEND on kick/snare to buss 2 - smash the crap out of it

I think what he wants is an FX bin with parallel routing. I've never seen buses, hardware or software, that could be "inserted" in tracks.

Yup...that would do it Craig but I don't know why you couldn't route a single tracks output to two different busses. You wouldn't be returning anything to the track. You'd simply be outputting the busses to your master.