I need help with a routing setup I have seen in Protools and would like to implement it in sonar. If you can help can you PM please.

Hi, why pm? Just put the question out here on the forum and then others may benefit from your query too. Just outline the routing setup. Just saying...

Hey Fitzj -

    I am also a Sonar and PT user.  If you post your question I can try and help you.

Many thanks for getting back to me. I did not want to upset people mentioning Protools.
I did a layout with excel and I would like to know how these inserts relate to sonar Fx bin and sonar  sends.

Hey Fitz -

    The short answer is, you can set everything up the way you have it in PT (without PT bundled effects, obviously)
Aux tracks in Pro Tools, is the same as a Bus in Sonar.  The difference is, in Sonar, you do not have to manually choose an internal bus to route it to.  It's one less step.

    Taking your "VocalVerb" Aux track, for example:  In Sonar, create a Bus - name it VocalVerb - Insert your favorite vocal verb in the effects bin.  Now you can create 'sends' on your vocal tracks, to your Vocalverb bus, just like in ProTools.  You adjust the amount of "send" on each track, same as ProTools.  ProTools has a fader for this, Sonar has a knob for this.  Same thing, different graphic.  

    You can set all your Busses up in Sonar, just like you set up your Aux tracks in ProTools.  As stated above, in ProTools, you have to choose an internal bus for the input of the Aux track, in Sonar, that step is not needed.

    Let me know if this answered anything or not.

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Sends in Blue - Routing in Red
For bigger version of photos:
PT screenshot http://www.flickr.com/photos/49564375@N00/8437108450/
Sonar Screenshot http://www.flickr.com/photos/49564375@N00/8437105396/

That's  great very much appreciated for your time and screen shots.
 I see protools console is very much like a proper physical mixing desk with aux channels.

I should of noted, in the ProTools picture, all of the green tracks are Aux tracks.  In the Sonar picture, the busses are on the right, as labeled.
 
Whats really cool about the PT console, is that you can add color :)

I see that very  nice awful pity Sonar took it away. You can add color Icons but its not that good compared to PT. And great markers as well in color. 

Ive got colors set in SONAR to where 

Tracks
Audio, Midi & softsynths are different colors

Busses are Red

Mains are Yellow

It just changes it in the lower section but when you have allot of folders and tracks it really makes it easy to see when your on the wrong one