Beware...old thread. The poor OP fell victim to X1itis.
 
But fast forward...I'm not sure why he had problems with ReWire, Sonar's ReWire implementation has always been good. In fact when it first appeared, the guys from Propellerheads said Sonar had one of the best implementations they'd seen. The biggest problem was how there wasn't a 64-bit ReWire dll for a long time and I had to live without it if I wanted to use 64-bit Sonar. But then P-Heads fixed that...and the world rejoiced. 

You cannot use the Nomad Factory Blue Tubes suite in other DAWs (X3 only), they are licensed to Sonar only. I tried to use one in Maschine, in Sonar, and was met with a license prompt. I have a feeling Rolands R-Mix may be restricted to Sonar as well (X2?). As an X1 user you are probably safe, but it is a legit question that might effect newer version users. 

perfectprint
You cannot use the Nomad Factory Blue Tubes suite in other DAWs (X3 only), they are licensed to Sonar only. I tried to use one in Maschine, in Sonar, and was met with a license prompt. I have a feeling Rolands R-Mix may be restricted to Sonar as well (X2?). As an X1 user you are probably safe, but it is a legit question that might effect newer version users. 

Confirmed. In both cases I was presented with licensed only for Sonar dialogs when I tried to load them in Live.
No great loss, the Nomad Factory stuff never impressed me much (meh) and I only use RMix occasionally to cancel vocal parts when I'm transcribing something.

To the OP = is there any thread for your Sonar issues that can be bumped to see if we can get them sorted out for you?  I would sure like an opportunity to try.  :)
 
Bob Bone
 

robert_e_bone
To the OP = is there any thread for your Sonar issues that can be bumped to see if we can get them sorted out for you?  I would sure like an opportunity to try.  :)
 

The thread is from over a year ago, and he was working with X1 so he missed out on the "X3 goodness."
 
It's also no secret I think Ableton Live is a brilliant program. But it's VERY different from Sonar and I do not consider them interchangeable at all...it's more like comparing a piano and guitar. Both are musical instruments, both use strings, and both quantize to semitones, but the experience of playing either one and the sounds produced are so very different. If his orientation is more toward live performance and grooves, he'll be happy with Live. If he needs to get "DAW work" done, though, or handle a variety of project types, I hope he re-visits Sonar X3. 

Yeah - twas just a shot at it, in case it was something they were interested in.  We sometimes have had success with getting someone to provide enough detail to where we can 'fix' them.
 
Bob Bone