I might be quite wrong about this but I think many companies now are preferring youtube videos to old-timey user manuals. 

Look at how the price of DAWs has crashed in the last 5-6 years. They don't have the money to write out a new manual for every new version, and then bind that new manual with cool new graphics etc.

What is needed is a Sonar fanatic who is unemplyed and who wants to do the job him/herself for free. Otherwise I think the printed material will only get worse/more out of date.

I do have the manual for both Rapture and Zeta, but Dimension only seems to include the help file - which is useless on Mac.

Simon Cann's book is a great read though. Worth every penny.

I have a (probably) silly question:
I placed Dimension.chm file in C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Dimension Pro\Documentation. Pressing F1 doesn't open it. The same thing happens if trying to open Rapture User's Guide.pdf. What do I have to do so that the programs see these files and open them?

I have a similiar problem trying to open the Vintage channel manual. It is located in the correct folder but I can't access it from within the gui.

Yeah, I have had inconsistent results using F1 to bring up plugin specific help files in X1/X2. I don't know if it is SONAR or Win7 related. In my case both SONAR and OS changed at the same time.

Hey b rock. Thanks for the Rapture User's Guide.

PDFs have to be opened using a reader like Acrobat. Sadly most vsti manuals need to be opened manual-y.

I was referring to plugins with chm files like PapaBear's example.

So was I. I get the same results (or lack of) as he does.

He also mentioned the Rapture PDF, thus my response.

The chm's not opening might be due to my laptop's fn key limitation, but I don't know that for sure.

F1 opens my HP Help only.

fn + F1 does nothing while a vsti is in focus.

It would help tremendously if vsti's included a Help Button.

I can get the plugin specific chm (including DimPro and Rapture) files on my desktop to open sometimes with F1. It is inconsistent as if the path to the file gets lost somehow. On my old XP desktop the F1 key brought up the plugin chm files every time but that machine never ran the SONAR X series.