So i discovered the Sonar X3 Producer on steam a few months ago. I have just dipped my toe into the producing world and want to take a swim in it. I've been discovering Sonar to be really user friendly despite my lack of common sense and knowledge of producing/mastering fundamentals. I have done a few fun little tests on mixing vocals and using matrix view for beats. I've always been a writer of many sorts and have always wanted to do parodies/originals for commercial use. Yes, I think I'm a jingle guy lol!. All the same I saw the price of my upgrade to platinum on Steam and pulled the trigger without even flinching. Vocal sync pretty much sold it for me. To an apprentice, this tool seems to help me cheat my way to making vocals sound clean lol. I pretty much decided to blow my budget on the shiny new perks and toys instead of the tutorials because learning it the hard way helps me remember it more effectively haha.
 
Anyways, I'm a student/practitioner of Sonar through Steam and hope you guys can guide me along my way to success! I am starting to understand the knobs and options at face value, but am still struggling with truly understanding such a wide variety of tools and jargon. I just sort of figured out what bouncing clips and tracts do and how to use buses. It's fun and new for now. Any tips?

continue along the path you're on.  Congrats and welcome

I'd reconsider some tutorials, they can expose little gems. On Groove3, you can spend for just one month at $15, then cram in a stack of videos. There are stacks of all sort of videos, and in chunks, so finding sections you found really useful are easy to review. 

Check out the Friday's Tip of the Week thread. Not always so much for newbies, but fun stuff.
 
As to SONAR...you chose wisely. :) 

There are several freebie videos on my youtube page, link in my signature. They might even tempt you enough to subscribe to SWA which includes all of my work for them.

Welcome fellow steam r, the help in sonar has a bunch of hints to

 
The Cakewalk store has several Cakewalk and SWA videos for very reasonable prices.  Hours and hours of learning, but mostly on the subject of which knob does what, rather than how to mix and master your latest song.  Groove3 has great videos for that.  They may not use Sonar, but all daws are more or less the same.
 

And when you get stuck there's always the forum. Welcome.

D'awww you guys are so sweet! Get it? DAW? giggle giggle.
 
Thanks for the welcomes. I'm working on a few nice mixes at the moment. Parodies, video dubs, remixes, etc. Though I feel like I have good ideas, but my knowledge of workflow is limited. When I hear people can do speed mixes, it blows my mind. It took me a couple of days to tear up some vocal tracks and outline my project so I won't forget how the song sounds in my head lol.
 
Thanks Paul, I will take a look at those for sure. Knowing what knob does what is one of my bigger concerns at the moment haha.