@trtzbass,
Welcome. As stated above, this forum has been a God send to me and others, and folks here in the forum work remarkably diligently to help each other. The Cakewalk staff also quite frequently pop in to various threads.
On top of that, the product itself has gone through a remarkable transformation, from release 8.5.3 until now, with X3d. This current release is absolutely fabulous, and they have been very aggressive in having released multiple maintenance updates since the release of X3. Even there, they were able to make what would normally have been the base version release of X3 into an already applied X3a, so that even the initial release of it had maintenance applied.
So, read the documentation, look for and watch the videos, consider picking up some professional videos or one of the books on Sonar, and have a blast.
One thing, many of us modify our forum user profile, to add our system specifications to the 'signature/footer' section of it, and also check the box that tells the forum software to include those specs at the bottom of all of our posts.
The reason for this is that it helps others to diagnose issues, without first having to ask a bunch of questions about what kind of system they are running. You can look at the bottom of my post, or others, for an idea of what I am recommending that you do.
Take care, I look forward to assisting you in your growth as a Sonar user, if I am able to. You are now a member of our rather dysfunctional family. :)
Bob Bone