I would credit the Sonitus FX suite as one of the core reasons I've stuck with SONAR over the years.
 
Minor correction: the Sonitus:fx suite from Ultrafunk was introduced with SONAR 3 Produced, in 2003, not 2013.

Yeah I keep using the gate and the comp too for quick ducking via sidechain when I need it.
The delay has snuck into some mixes here and there.
 
Have you ever tried the dbx 165 preset on the comp?
Pretty special.

stickman393
I would credit the Sonitus FX suite as one of the core reasons I've stuck with SONAR over the years.
 
Minor correction: the Sonitus:fx suite from Ultrafunk was introduced with SONAR 3 Produced, in 2003, not 2013.

Damn decimals! Fixed, thanks.
 
Craig

bitman
Have you ever tried the dbx 165 preset on the comp?
Pretty special.

Count me as a fan. It's the only dbx 160-series emulation I own, though I wonder how the other "proper" emulations stack up.
 

Anderton
Damn decimals! Fixed, thanks.
 

Eh, what's a decade here and there?

http://www.waves.com/plug...view-with-eddie-kramer
 
no comparison

The Grim
http://www.waves.com/plug...view-with-eddie-kramer
 
no comparison

Thanks for the recommendation, but I'm trying to stay out of the Waves ecosystem. Between the 1 machine at a time limitation and the WUP, it isn't attractive to me.

sorry for off topic, but wup is optional, not even an issue, but i respect your choice
 
(and sonar is also one machine at a time)

As always, great tip Craig.  It's amusing that most of the "cons" of Sonar that I've read always include "much of their fx and synths are a bit dated".
 
Your words are highly ironic though:
"So, of course I did the standard procedure of going to the forum, and creating a thread called “MAJOR SONAR BUG!!!!!!!!!!! SONITUS CAN’T SAVE PRESETS!!!! SWITCHING TO REAPER!!!!”
 
One of the criticisms about Reaper I hear really are "well they do have some nice fx, but there's not a decent synth to be had".
 
The clock just struck midnight so I am now 55, and I am buying Reaper (and your Sonar Tips & Tricks thingy), but Sonar will always be my primary daw.  Reaper somehow fascinates me, and it's really not a complementary daw with Sonar (they both share some common weaknesses) but it's soo inexpensive and all of my CW stuff works perfectly in it.  Thanks again.  

declan
 
The clock just struck midnight so I am now 55, and I am buying Reaper (and your Sonar Tips & Tricks thingy), but Sonar will always be my primary daw.  Reaper somehow fascinates me, and it's really not a complementary daw with Sonar (they both share some common weaknesses) but it's soo inexpensive and all of my CW stuff works perfectly in it.  Thanks again.  

that right there, regardless of if it is reaper or pro tools, or cubase or ableton or studio one or whatever, your cutting yourself off from something you may find better suits you before you even begin, i'll never understand that, you may well find that the daw you are looking at just gels with you better, fits you better , appeals to you more, but for whatever reason you are cutting that chance off before it can even begin by saying "but sonar will always be my primary daw" i see this said every now and then with people posting in the software sub forum when trying another daw, they say the exact same thing, is it some misplaced foolish allegiance to a company?, some sort of emotional tie?, a need to feel part of something?, emotional attachment to a piece of software?, being so attached to a forum that people don't want to be seen as leaving sonar or being disloyal in some bizarre way? some kind of self imposed peer pressure?.  i don't mean to be pointing this at you personally, it is no way personal, i just don't understand it for the life of me, why people feel the need when exploring a competing product to preempt it with things like "but sonar will always be my primary daw", never will understand it. if i try something new it's with an open mind, and if i feel it is better, suits me better, i'm gone without a second thought. if people like you or not because of what daw you use, they are not worth knowing, if people treat you differently, or don't talk to you the same because you move on to a competing product, they are are not worth knowing. i'll never get it

The Grim

declan
 
The clock just struck midnight so I am now 55, and I am buying Reaper (and your Sonar Tips & Tricks thingy), but Sonar will always be my primary daw.  Reaper somehow fascinates me, and it's really not a complementary daw with Sonar (they both share some common weaknesses) but it's soo inexpensive and all of my CW stuff works perfectly in it.  Thanks again.  

that right there, regardless of if it is reaper or pro tools, or cubase or ableton or studio one or whatever, your cutting yourself off from something you may find better suits you before you even begin, i'll never understand that, you may well find that the daw you are looking at just gels with you better, fits you better , appeals to you more, but for whatever reason you are cutting that chance off before it can even begin by saying "but sonar will always be my primary daw" i see this said every now and then with people posting in the software sub forum when trying another daw, they say the exact same thing, is it some misplaced foolish allegiance to a company?, some sort of emotional tie?, a need to feel part of something?, emotional attachment to a piece of software?, being so attached to a forum that people don't want to be seen as leaving sonar or being disloyal in some bizarre way? some kind of self imposed peer pressure?.  i don't mean to be pointing this at you personally, it is no way personal, i just don't understand it for the life of me, why people feel the need when exploring a competing product to preempt it with things like "but sonar will always be my primary daw", never will understand it. if i try something new it's with an open mind, and if i feel it is better, suits me better, i'm gone without a second thought. if people like you or not because of what daw you use, they are not worth knowing, if people treat you differently, or don't talk to you the same because you move on to a competing product, they are are not worth knowing. i'll never get it

WTH?  I've been using CW products since '96 and my brain is pretty hard-wired to their conventions, and I don't really care about what you'll "never understand".  I'm guessing you say that a lot if you use it  twice in the same paragraph.
 
As to "community" and Sonar, I've never met anyone who puts it down and I often chuckle about the bbs "reality" that really bothers some people.   And lay off the advice about what to do "if people don't like you" or "being treated differently".  My birthday lasts about a fortnight, and I've never had a disagreement about a daw.  People like what they like.  Have a good weekend.