Normal VST3's, like the new Organ Yamaha has been giving away, are working fine in Sonar.
The only one with a problem is the very important Motif XF VST3.
I know there has already been discussion about similar VST3 issues, but as I haven't seen the Motif mentioned, and
it seems to be connecting a little more than the others, so I wanted to describe what it is doing.
When I add it as an instrument track, it DOES connect to the Motif and correctly updates itself from the motif.
(I only had to set the driver as firewire, which is normal for a first run)
Once done, I can select patches on the Motif and all the editing controls are working.
Although Midi in is blank, it is working - I can play the Motif, the keys on the keyboard at the bottom on the VST light up and I can even record the midi notes into the track.
What is NOT working - is that there is NO midi OUT. There is no sound coming back from the Motif.
Midi out, as it does with the other Yamaha VST editors says not configured, and there are no choices available to set it to.
So the remote port is being used automatically and I have full control of changes and edits on the Motif, but can not play it due to no Midi out.
Used without the VST - It works fine as both a midi instrument, an audio I/O (I'm using the multi track firewire driver) and also as a basic remote control surface. With just Sonar selected as remote type in the Motif and Mackie (not XT) as the controller type in Sonar, I have transport fully functional and my Motif sliders controlling track volumes. I haven't tried to get fancier than that yet. I was really only concerned about local transport controls for recording, I mix on the PC. I never could get my old Yamaha midi controller to work with Sonar 8.5.
Just hoping more info on what these Yamaha tools are doing would be on some help to the Sonar guys trying to resolve this. It looks like we are one interface away from having these up and running. And with only Yamaha and Korg still in the workstation market, I would think that having all of Yamaha's keyboards working fully with Sonar would be a big plus for Sonar. Otherwise the large Yamaha community gets stuck with Cubase and its problems.