Mudgel:
 
Excuse my ignorance, but should I already see RX4 in a "tools" menu, or do you mean the "utilities" menu? I am not aware of a "tools" menu, other than the panel in the control bar that is used to select the smart tool, etc.

Sorry I thought you already had RX4 added to your Tools menu. It's the Tools menu at the very top of Sonars main screen. And no it isn't there until you manually add it.

You need to do a registry edit to add a program to a sonar's Tools menu. This enable you to select a track or audio selection for editing in an external program, in this case RX4.

if you're OK doing a registry edit then follow the step by step process outlined in the knowledge base article I linked to in post #14 and add the info from the last line I gave you in the previous post.

If that's beyond your skills let me know and I'll write it out for you. It's a good thing to learn. Make sure to do a registry backup as per the linked article.

You also educate yourself and read the whole thread linked to in post #9.

Correction. Please substitute Utilities for Tools.

Mudgel:
 
Thanks for the additional information. I have done registry edits before (forcing Rapture and Dimension Pro to place libraries and samples where I wanted them). But I am by no means a registry wiz. So, I'll give this a try, and take advantage of your help if I need it.

mcdonalk
Excuse my ignorance, but should I already see RX4 in a "tools" menu, or do you mean the "utilities" menu? I am not aware of a "tools" menu, other than the panel in the control bar that is used to select the smart tool, etc.

 
You're correct, it's under the Utilities menu.

benjaminfrog

mcdonalk
Excuse my ignorance, but should I already see RX4 in a "tools" menu, or do you mean the "utilities" menu? I am not aware of a "tools" menu, other than the panel in the control bar that is used to select the smart tool, etc.

 
You're correct, it's under the Utilities menu.

My apologies, I haven't been in front of my DAW during this discussion and I've continually talked about the Tools menu but of course it is the Utilities menu that's being discussed. It's located at the top of Sonars main window along with the other menu items. Thanks benjaminfrog for the correction. Sorry for any confusion mcdonalk, I totally missed your reference to the Utilities menu.

The tools menu dates back many years when that was where additional external tools were added.

I believe that I have implemented the registry changes properly. RX4 is now an option in the "utilities" menu, and when I select an audio clip and select RX4 from the "utilities" menu, the audio clip opens in RX4. However, I now have the following problem:

a) When RX4 is invoked in the above manner, a warning is repeatedly displayed: "audio driver error: selected audio device cannot be opened. Please make sure it's not in use by another application ..." This happens whether or not "share drivers with other programs" is checked in the audio preferences.

b) If I attempt to play the clip from within RX4, the same warning occurs, and no sound is heard, although I can hear the Sonar audio track when it is played.

What should I try next?

When you engage Sonars Share drivers with other programs
A) you need to exit Sonar and restart it for the change to take effect.
B) when you do A only the program with focus can access the driver.
C) if you set A and want to try with the option unchecked again close Sonar and reopen to effect the change.
D) if you have option D then any open program eg. RX4 can use the audio driver at the same time as Sonar

You could try opening RX4 before using it from the Utility menu (got it right that time) so only the audio needs to be passed from Sonar to RX4 instead of it having to open the program as well. Just a trouble shooting suggestion.

Have you mentioned yet what Audio interface device you are using? I mostly use an iPad for forum interaction so I can't see any info in your signature.

Open RX4 as a standalone program and make sure it is setup to use the same driver etc as Sonar. You. You might have to have Sonar closed while you do this.

I just use MME inside RX4 and let Sonar own the ASIO drivers.  It's not ideal but I don't really care much about latency in an audio editor.  But that combo might not work with every interface (I'm using a first-gen Focusrite Saffire).
 

With that combination where do you here the RX4 output and the Sonar output?

You really should try to use the same driver so you can monitor through the same hardware chain right up to and including your speakers.

Again with that combination I'm not surprised you can't hear the RX4 output and get that error message.

BTW please export your registry key for the RX4 Sonar Utility function.
You end up with a .reg file. Change the file extension from .reg to .txt by right clicking and select rename. Open it in notepad and copy the included text and paste into this thread so I can have a look. I'm sure you've got it right just want to check if you don't mind. Also saving the file with the .reg extension, if ever you need to redo this if you e had to reinstall windows for example you can just double click a reg file and it will add the text into the appropriate key for you.

Man, the answer was in a post from Noel from 2009! I didn't even realize those additional arguments existed.
 
I have been using Audition for a while now from the Utilities menu, and SONAR passes it the actual wav beneath the selected clip. Simple launch from Utilities, (destructive) edit, save, close; and SONAR recognizes the file has been altered and prompts to reload it. (The additional directory with RX3/4 referenced above is a bit confusing to me based on what I have seen Audition do. I do not have "temp audio" lying about from these edits.)