You are right and sorry for my brain immediately thinking "hardware". There's been enough people I have read elsewhere that were not very happy with Clavia dropping the virtual modular and that's something I admit know nothing about but have heard great audio examples from.
It seems though that it would be prudent to take advantage of higher bandwidth than USB 2 and use USB 3 or even Firewire 400/800 so there's no bottleneck that the often grumpy Ti owners talk about.That way the future would have an interface path that does not stifle creativity/added features. Then again, I am really hardcore hardware and call me old school but it is what it is. I am learning Reaper but soon may change audio interface and check-out the Studio One DAW that comes with it. However, the only thing the DAW provides for me is a super flexable sequencer/recorder as I do not use plug-ins, having outboard effects is just the way I work but then again have never done any mastering or use of compression and that too may be DAW duties.
Anyway, I think you suggested a cool direction for Access to go and to of course perhaps have hardware that integrates properly at such a deeply direct level such as Firewire or USB 3 where differeing DAW's would not matter so much. Then again, tend to dream big, I do!
