Using Sonar X2 with outboard gear

 
How is everyone's luck using outboard reverbs and processors with Sonar X2?  I have a Lexicon PCM 60 I wanted to try and compare to a few of the VSTs..  going out of my Motu 2408, into the PCM60, out of the PCM back into the Motu.
 
Are there any issues people have come across?  (Latency, etc)
 

Works great - patch it in! The latency can be your "pre-delay" and you can use nudge to line up any audio that is too delayed.

Another ZED-R16 user with outboard gear if I feel like it. Works well and hassle free whenever I use that method either via inserts on a channel or using the ZEDs channel sends and then routing the processor returns back to Sonar via a couple of the ZEDs spare channels.

I use the External Insert plugin quite a bit with Sonar and it works great.  In my experience the automatic function to compensate for latency results in a sample accurate insert.  By that I mean - if you do a loop through (bypassed) external equipment there is no shift (aka delay, latency) at all in the signal.  This will remove the latency associated with the D/A and D/A conversion give you a time accurate insert path that is at least as good as you would see on a real analog console. 

I always put ANY hardware in bypass when having the External Insert plugin calculate the latency so as to remove the converter latency from the timing calculation of the insert but for most things it isn't critical.   However, when using a hardware reverb unit on the insert - unless you want to use the latency as predelay - it is more important.  The nature of what a reverb does to the signal makes it very difficult for the autocalculation of the latency by the External Insert plugin to be done accurately.  Depending on the reverb characteristics you may find that the timing can be off by a fairly significant amount.  This will sound like predelay unless you setup the hardware to allow some of the dry signal pass through the hardware unit back to the DAW.  In that case you may introduce a unwanted audio changes as a result of the mixing of the original signal with the delayed dry signal which will be slightly out of phase.  This may or may not be audible depending on the level of the dry signal and the amount of latency.  It's easier to just do the External Insert automatic latency calculation with hardware in bypass and not have to worry about it.

Don