SiTheMon
Thanks for all you help guys. I went with the softube plugins and they are brilliant.
Great to see its still an awesome forum.
SiTheMon - here's a suggestion. There's a very helpful tutorial series from Groove3 called Mixing with Sonar X1. It's currently $18 at Groove3 (Nov half off price). In my opinion this is the best tutorial / demo to date which walks through actually using Sonar on a song. Instead of being a tutorial explaining software features, this walks through putting together a single song and using tools appropriate while developing the song.
I mention this in relation to this thread because this tutorial series uses the Softube Bundle tools quite a bit and shows off how they can really help in various aspects in the mix process.