I'm really excited to see new Sonar coming. By watching the video posted, it's really hard to tell what improvements were made to AudioSnap except the GUI Palette(pretty the same as before tho). It's little early to make any judgement but I have a feeling that it's coming as the way it's been. What a huge let down. It still seems like not supporting usable 'Online' rendering algorithms requiring 'Offline' rendering everytime which is the most painful thing among other glitches.
 
'Ableton Live 8 Warping is Better than Sonar AudioSnap 2.0'