[KevWind]

Some thoughts: Most major DAW's allow you to create your own custom user session/project ... templates, including Sonar (which also has individual track templates)

This is a procedure that anyone who will be doing any amount of recording will find invaluable, especially anyone who wants a quick "open hit record" work flow to optimize creativity

As has been pointed out also as far as self Mastering. While it can be useful in some circumstances for things like posting to streaming services where there is not really any commercial intention .

For commercial purposes while self mastering is certainly being done (with widely varying results) it does however defeat one significant aspect of traditional mastering which is an objective fresh set of ears and experience specific to mastering.

So for self-mastering it appears Sonar ships with some Mastering tools bundled personally I would focus on these.

As general rule, the terms "Audio Mastering" and "Automatic" are a contradiction in terms. One of the major focal points and reason for mastering, is to taylor the specific settings of the tools used, to address the needs of the specific piece of music being mastered. Not to set the mastering tools parameters to a predetermined algorithm. In practical terms no accurate pre determined algorithm can exist for any individual specific piece of music, let alone one that exists for any or all individual pieces of music