Some clarification might be required here. I assume because you are in the V Studio thread you are looking at or using one now.
Each channel of Sonar (Console View) has a bult in equalizer right near the top of the channel strips. This is handy because often a lot of important eq duties can be handled by this channel EQ and that is great. Down lower where you insert plugins you may install another EQ if you feel like it and you might use that for more detailed or specialist type of EQ on that track.
But with compressors there are no built in channel compressors. They need to be inserted as required in each channel in the normal plugin area. But there are plenty to choose from to perform those duties standard in Sonar and if you have any other third party compressors installed then you may use those as well.
post edited by Jeff Evans - 2009/08/06 19:00:03