Beepster
I'm curious, Karl (and yes I'm intentionally bumping this thread so people buy your vid for THEIR benefit as well as yours)... how the heck did you learn all that stuff? I mean, that's like OCD territory. Sooooo many knobs and buttons. :-/
 
;-p

 
I'm just one of those sad people that isn't just happy that something works, I want to know why and how it works so I tend to immerse myself in something until I'm satisfied that I've "got it". Just sharing some of that "I've got it". 
 
Thanks again.

What I greatly valued from watching and referring back to this tutorial from Karl is that he covers in it lots of effects and areas in Sonar where other tutorials and books avoid.

Other books or tutorials often use the phrase "but that's outside the scope of this" and leave you wondering what's in that other area.

Karl bravely tours us through and it's great to have!

Bought this for $8 on the strength of that recommendation. What a bargain. Excellent video. On a side note, I notice that Groove 3 are also selling their Melodyne tutorial for $8, which I got for $5 recently. Just wondering if $8 is the new $5...

Thanks for the recommendations lawajava and bent4life. Glad you are finding it useful. Your support is much appreciated.

+1 to this video. Now I can mess with the effect with more confidence. Thanks Karl.

Excellent video for sure, and what is more is that Karl is often around to answer other questions too!! Karl knows his stuff!
 
OMG Beepster... as soon as you said "I am a beginner/intermediate Sonar Producer..." I sat back and might need to re-evaluate myself... I have been demoted to "novice." I disagree with your statement due to many of the posts you have made! Come on... 7550 posts... as a "beginner/intermediate"? I will be a novice forever :(
 
SONAR is an interesting playground... the more I learn, the more I realize I have no clue about!

At the Beepster's recommendation,  I've purchased "SONAR X2 Advanced Workshop: Producer Effects - Video Tutorial".  I cannot complain for $8.00 and we'll see if it helps me sift through the various effects. 
 
I've also added "SWA Complete SONAR X2" as it's been quite a few years since I've had a current version of a Cakewalk product, however I'm not sure if "SWA Complete SONAR X2" really puts it together any better than the free media on Cake TV and such.
 
The total cost for both is $27.94, that's very cheap for good educational material, so at worst I may glean some few insights not otherwise easily available, and at best it will be an ongoing useful source of information not easily available on Cake TV and such.
 
Long live the Beepster.

I just realized I made a mistake earlier. This is a 5 hour vid. Not a 2 hour vid. Sorry about that. It's all quality though.
 

FastBikerBoy
I'm just one of those sad people that isn't just happy that something works, I want to know why and how it works so I tend to immerse myself in something until I'm satisfied that I've "got it". Just sharing some of that "I've got it". 
 
Thanks again.

I'm kind of the same way but unfortunately I constantly get dragged away from stuff I'm working on before reaching that satisfying level of "completion"... but I'll get to it all eventually. With these topics though many times I wouldn't even know where to begin because the available info is so scattered and/or sparse. Seriously... this vid is a lifesaver because there just isn't anything out there like it.
 
I have however been contemplating something. Now that X3 is out a separate update vid to include some of the new stuff like the tape sim, Quad Curve and Melodyne would be cool to bundle with this vid (and then you/Cake could put the price up again). Obviously the very few new effects wouldn't make for a very long vid BUT you could include an updated intro to show effects and busses being inserted in X3 which isn't really a big thing AND... here's the kicker.... include every single add on Pro Channel Module that has been released, include the third party ones. Like the Concrete Limiter, the PC2A/CA2A, the Softube modules, all of it.
 
All the stuff in the current video works the same so that vid can stand alone and none of it would need to be redone. Just an extra for those extras many people have or are considering. Could drive some extra sales for Cake and help out the folks who own those plugs.
 
Just a thought. Cheers.

mettelus
Excellent video for sure, and what is more is that Karl is often around to answer other questions too!! Karl knows his stuff!
 
OMG Beepster... as soon as you said "I am a beginner/intermediate Sonar Producer..." I sat back and might need to re-evaluate myself... I have been demoted to "novice." I disagree with your statement due to many of the posts you have made! Come on... 7550 posts... as a "beginner/intermediate"? I will be a novice forever :(
 
SONAR is an interesting playground... the more I learn, the more I realize I have no clue about!

I have been told post count means nothing. ;-p
 
In my case that is however true. A bulk of my post count is from me harassing these guys trying to figure out what's what and/or just blathering about this that or the other. Any time you see me being "smart" is because the topic is something I've recently learned and am usually just parroting out of the manual or something I've seen other users post because it helps me retain the info better and... well I like to help where I can because it's only fair after all the info I've bled from the forum. Fact is all I've really done the past year is study and done some tests to get my bearings within the program. I have not done anything particularly substantial or noteworthy with it yet. Basically if you have put together more than a few complete songs you are more advanced than I am. This winter though after I do a review of everything I've learned and some more test projects I intend to take everything I've learned and start REALLY producing. Hopefully by next spring I can drop this beginner shackle I've chained to myself and move into pro territory. I just don't want to start writing/recording and get stuck because I didn't learn everything I needed to before hand. That's a real buzzkill.
 
;-)

Chumer
 
Long live the Beepster.

Hooray!!