So far the installation went well and X2 actually feels snappy and looks good.

Tried out the console emulation and I don´t know if it was on or not, cause I couldn´t hear a change when turning knobs!

I demoed Waves´ NLS and boy that´s a complete other story, I wanted to wait to see how Sonar´s emulation is but I think I have to get NLS..

anyone the same opinion?

Cheers

My understanding is that it is fairly subtle but gets less subtle as you turn up the drive. Also, if you put it on all tracks, including the buss tracks, it also has more of an effect. 

I was curious as to what it did so I loaded up a track, cloned, inverted and then turned the console emulation on for just one track. If you do this, you can hear what it is doing.
There is also another posts here (several actually) that go into it in more detail. There is one that shows spectral analysis so you can "see" what it is doing to the signal.

Sub, it all depends on where you put it into your chain of commands.....

Its made more sense to me to put it into the Master Bus channel to add some "warmth"...just enough.....

its a subtle but effective mix warmer.

Of course I was turning the driveknob, but still if this is subtle, then it is reeeaaally subtle :-)

I could hear it the first time I used console emulation.
It is subtle though and depends on how much drive you are using with it.

I can hear a huge difference when enabling the console emuation. If you cant hear it then its your monitoring chain and room that is holding you back. Or it can be your ears.


Cj

It was a pretty obvious difference when they turned it on and off in the webinar. 

Ok, I´ll give it another go later when I slept enough,

CJ, btw I have Blue Sky´s in a acousticly well treated room, so that´s not the problem..

thanks

You should definitely watch the webinar.  They demonstrated a good way to use it.  Brandon put it well when he said to start the mix with the Console Emulator enabled on all tracks - then mix "into it."  This makes sense, as an actual large format console isn't added to a mix, you mix through it.