A couple of evenings ago, I setup Sonar X1c for a side by side comparison of Cytomic’s The Glue SSL Bus Compressor emulation with the Sonar Pro Channel PC4K version.  Long story short is that I discovered some serious issues with the Pro Channel emulation and was very surprised to find out that, it appeared, nobody else had reported the issue.  Sonar X1 has been out since December or so of last year.

The issue is twofold,  First, the threshold setting on this compressor is about 12 dB lower than what the knob displays.  Second, it appears that a 2:1 ratio actually clamps more than a 10:1 ration at higher threshold settings.

Ouch.

I filed a bug report with Cakewalk but have yet to see any action on it.  Stay tuned, Sonar users.