I made portamento work like in FL Studio. I took a simple saw wave and used the portamento function in FL studio and it sounded excellent just what I wanted. I tried it in Sonar X3 and I couldn't figure out how to make it work. Does anyone know how to make the portmento work in Sonar X3?

As an FX applied to previously recorded audio? I've never heard of such a thing. I suppose it's possible, but I wouldn't expect the result to be very pretty over a very wide pitch range. Portamento is usually programmed into a synth patch. Melodyne might be able to do it, but I suspect it would take a lot of manual editing. Googling didn't get many hits, so I doubt it's built in. The only example I found was more like pitch bend of a single long note than portamento from one note to the next:
 
https://soundcloud.com/st...o-vocals-with-melodyne

I think I don't understand the question. Are you talking about MIDI commands or what? Every time I've used portamento I've set it in my MIDI keyboard.
Where is the saw wave you mention? In a certain soft synth?

You must be talking about a particular synth. Sonar as such doesn't really have or do anything with portamento. Nor does Fruityloops, by the way. Can you be more specific? What saw wave are you talking about?

FL Studio does do portamento, but only for the FL native synths. The VST versions of the same instruments don't offer this feature. Otherwise, you need to use the portamento control of the synth, if it exists.

Yes, portamento is a function of the virtual instrument, not the program. Note that some instruments do only monophonic portamento, in other words, it works only if the synth is producing one voice. Apparently polyphonic portamento is more difficult to implement.

What he said. Portamento is a feature of a synth. Since we have no idea which synth we're talking about it's a little hard to give good advice. Note that that doesn't prevent me from posting, of course.

It took me years of research to find a rambler that supports PORTAMENTO correctly with custom instrument files... the only winner is:
 
KONTAKT with a built in user script.  
 
You can get the glide sound between monophonic notes working as it does on a real synth (think MINI MOOG and Keith Emerson LUCKY MAN solo).
 
There are soft synths that support portamento but only with their internal generated sounds. I needed something that I can load my own samples into and apply portamento to. Hence, KONTAKT was the winner.
 
Jim

You can load your own samples into Rapture and apply monophonic portamento.
Polyphony=0 (mono/legato).  Porta Time from 0.0 to 10.0 seconds.
 
And this base script below will work in Dimension Pro or Rapture for polyphonic portamento.  Place it alongside your samples, modify the <region>, Mod Wheel controls the rate.
 
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Polyphonic Portamento Base SFZ File
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

<region>
sample=013 - pulse mk.wav oscillator=on

// Replace 013 - pulse mk.wav above with the sound of your choice.
// Remove oscillator=on for use with larger one-shot Multisamples.
// Selecting mono/legato mode (Polyphony=0) in the GUI overrides the polyphonic portamento.

eg16_sustain=1
eg16_level0=0 eg16_time0=0
eg16_level1=1 eg16_time1_oncc1=10 eg16_shape1=1
eg16_glide_speed=.1
eg16_pitch=1200

// CC#1 (mod wheel) controls the portamento rate.
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I read through some of the answers to my question and here is the saw tooth that I made in FL Studio. You will hear the portamento right away. it is just a blurb. I used an FL Studio synth to create this but I was not able to do it with other synths that were not native to FL Studio. Here is the link below. If this is able to be created like the below just using the midi portamento that would be great because that is what I am able to do in FL Studio with one of their synths. If not, cakewalk this is something that should be included in the next version. I can show how this was created in FL Studio if you need an example.
 
https://soundcloud.com/vampire-lestat/pornamento-in-fl-studio
 
By the way what ever happened to the reply button I would have replied to each answer. I guess this is how you have to do it now.