please someone help with sidechaining Sonar 8.5

Create a project with 2 tracks - Insert the Sonitus Gate on Track 2 -- Add a Send to track 1 and choose the Sonitus Side-Chain from the list.

Only a few effects support Side-Chaining. It is a "feature" of VST3 - but Sonar doesn't support VST3

wintaper


Create a project with 2 tracks - Insert the Sonitus Gate on Track 2 -- Add a Send to track 1 and choose the Sonitus Side-Chain from the list.

Only a few effects support Side-Chaining. It is a "feature" of VST3 - but Sonar doesn't support VST3

Other than the Sonitus Gate and Compressor that comes with Sonar, there are quite a number of 3rd party plugins that now support side-chaining in VST2 format.
 
Voxengo, FabFilter, Density, many others.
 
 

wintaper


Sonitus is DirectX - not VST

Yes, I was just adding that there are other plugins available (VSTs though) that do side-chaining.
 

wintaper


I use the Sonitus Comp sidechained all the time. By itself not a problem. The issues arise when you mix and match DirectX and VST in the same chain. I believe one format takes stereo-interleaved stream and the other takes dual mono stream when inserted on a "stereo" track. Occasionally I get a loud pop on playback instantiation - probably some artifact in a buffer somewhere.

Hmm, interesting.  I haven't experienced that.  I did find out that Sonar doesn't seem to let 3rd party plugins work as side-chains with the 64bit Double Precision Engine engaged (either in audio options or during bouncedowns/exports).
 
But I've had no problem mixing the Sonitus plugins with 3rd party side-chainable VST plugins -- which I do often lately.
 
Sonar definitely needs to do some work in this area, though, so that there are no barriers to this technique. 
  
Actually - one correction ... I'm not sure I've mixed DX + VST in the "same" chain as you state - so that may be why I've not experienced that problem.