Greatly enhanced external inserts

[norfolkmastering]

Just to say a big thank you to Noel and the rest of the Sonar development team for doing such a great job on the external insert enhancements.

Not only are true mono port send and returns now possible but you can also configure send only and return only inserts. Absolutely great for those of us with hybrid digital/analogue setups.

Also … being able to wrap one or more external inserts, each with custom names, within an FX Chain preset, means you can call up a preconfigured external insert already pre wired (in the analogue domain) to your favourite mix down chains.

E.g. I have an external insert FX chain for main vocals, another for drums, one for piano and so on.  Being able to call these up by ‘friendly’ name and have those names appear on the track and bus means I no longer forget which external FX are allocated to which tracks and buses.  And of course you can preset send and return levels so the external insert is matched to the external FX chain.

Fantastic!

[Noel Borthwick]

Glad it's working well for you. In the next update there are a few more external insert improvements. 

- the ping signal is now shown on the return meter which makes it easier to troubleshoot connections. 

- ping is failsafe and always ensures that the audio engine is initialized 

-external insert no longer loses port settings when switching between friendly output names