Hi everybody,
 
Do you know if it is possible to load all your "standard" sounds once and then being able to swith from one project to the other (without closing everything) ?
In other words, you load all your sound on morning and then you can successively work on diffrerent songs without reloading each time your sounds. (I hope I am clear)
 
This is definitely a functionnality that will help for flexibility and time saving.
 
Thanks.

Hello and welcome to the forums, These might be what your looking for.
Track templates
https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR%20X2&language=3&help=Arranging.08.html
Project templates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obv6_xaQ8G8
 

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un-check Allow only one open project at a time
 
martin

You can either load one project at one time. By closing the project all plugins will be closed and unloaded.
Or you can "un-check Allow only one open project at a time"
Then you can load a few projects and switch between them.
But each project loads his own plugins and sounds - they will not shared.
For example: If you load 5 projects, each with NI Kontakt, then 5 instances of NI Kontakt will be loaded.
The sounds are software and the sounds (plugins) are loaded within the project and belong to a track - not a hardware, where you control and share your sounds outside the computer in a rack.

Thank you guys for quick answers.
 
So, if I understand well, I can load several projects in the same time, but I can not share loaded sounds (kontakt for instance). Too bad.
 
I imagine that some kind of "sheet" (like excel) do not exist neither on a given project ?

If you load two instruments into a single instance of Kontakt and those instruments share wave files, Kontakt will only load one copy of that data.   But this is a very narrow case.  Most professional instruments rarely reuse the same wave files (applies when the wave data is stored in a Kontakt .nkx file too) in more than one instrument.  You can get a win if you load the same instrument many times, but that is about it.  So if you need say multiple copies of the String Ensemble Violins, be sure and load them into a single Kontakt instance.
 

Sharing the same sounds and plugins with several projects makes no sense.
Because every project would control the same plugin and would constantly override the settings.
The software-sounds (plugins) are virtual and also track-based.

This was one of the reasons I suggested project and track templates.
I know my comment was kind of overlooked but its very much related.
Set up one project, save it as a template and open multiple projects using that same template.
A project template can also save data along with tracks (save midi/audio along with the template).
 
I don't know maybe im missing something. But it doesn't seem like it.
 

martins guit
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This menu path has not been part of the current SONAR for over 7 years

Chuck has the best answer. 
It's super easy to have one song with the instruments you want and all fine tunes and tweeked/ you save that as a track template, open the other songs and load it in,done.. this is something I do day in day out with my backing tracks. I want them to all play like a live band , not a different band for each song. 
 
The other option I also use a lot is each VST has custom pre sets you can NAME and  save. 
Once you have the instrument loaded you can save time looking for it again by saving it to the preset menu. 
Example in Session drummer and AD2 I use song names once I get a kit sounding right for that song. I then will know what style of music the kit will be for.