Its good someone is getting something out of this thread. The OP has not replied. 

Though it is not free, you can pay 15 bucks a month for a month or two and watch more than you'll need on Groove3. It's a good deal. They have good Sonar vids and also good generic mixing vids and others that are good, so say for 30 bucks, two months... you get a LOT!
 
Youtube and Cake TV are both good too.
 
J

Interesting you referenced Digital Performer's column in Sound on Sound as a "free" source of tutorials. If you had bothered to look just a tiny bit further, you would have found the equally free SONAR columns that I've been writing for Sound on Sound since 2001: http://www.soundonsound.com/articles/Sonar.php
 
And props to Sound on Sound for being the first publication that immediately understood how important SONAR would be, and made sure they had monthly coverage of it before anyone else.
 
Also, if you haven't seen how much free material is in the Cakewalk blog not just about SONAR but recording techniques in general, and which is updated often, and which is free, then maybe you wouldn't make posts about there not being anything free, and Cakewalk having the audacity to charge for something for which they pay third party SONAR enthusiasts who make a living (or at least enough for dinner and movie ) from sharing their knowledge.

Just an FYI - I'm starting a new series of articles for the Cakewalk blog that's designed for those who need basics. They're in a "Five Questions About..." format and I try to give answers that don't go over peoples' heads but aren't simplistic, either. The first one is on latency. The next is on understanding crucial audio specs, and the third on different filter responses....with more to come.

Maybe you forgot Craig but aren't your tips in the sticky section above free? BTW, I copied them all and have then neatly in a WP file including your graphics if you need it in say a PDF format I can send it to you free of charge too. LOL
 
I also have many of those articles from SOS by you in a notebook. I may even have the ones from 2001.
 
And another thing by your being here offering help and insights wouldn't you say that is a huge free benefit for us?
 
 

John
Maybe you forgot Craig but aren't your tips in the sticky section above free? BTW, I copied them all and have then neatly in a WP file including your graphics if you need it in say a PDF format I can send it to you free of charge too. LOL
 
I also have many of those articles from SOS by you in a notebook. I may even have the ones from 2001.
 
And another thing by your being here offering help and insights wouldn't you say that is a huge free benefit for us?
 
 

I put a link to first round in PDF in the thread and was waiting to revise and add on. I think there is lots of valuable info that is nice to have offline.

John
Maybe you forgot Craig but aren't your tips in the sticky section above free?

No, you're supposed to pay me $10 every time you use one. Please send me your bank account's routing number, checking or savings account number, mother maiden's name, and your social security number - we'll get it all squared away
 
FWIW some of the tips in the sticky are revised versions of tips I liked from the Sonar column, but are no longer relevant due to changes between pre-X series and post X-series versions. Submit Post

Thank you very much. I'll check it out. My biggest problem is the way Sonar Producer was re-arranged sometime between 8.5 and X3. I still haven't found a button that minimizes/maximizes tracks. Used to be in top right corner, you could expand/minimize with same button. The only way I can make it happen now is dragging it to size. Sometimes when I drag a track to make it bigger, they all get bigger. I've searched through the manual under tracks, can't find anything? They probably call it something else? There are a lot of little things like that, that are bugging me. I wish there was an option to go to sonar pro 8.5 view.

That article seemed pretty familiar.

I believe SWA Complete Sonar X2 is currently available for free viewing on their site. That's nine hours worth that should keep you going for a while.