Don't get me wrong.
Technological advances are great and all, but there's a point where enough is enough.
Slowly but surely, we seem to be losing our big, rugged, shiny tactile surface-based equipment to the growing 'virtual' variety. We're losing actual sliders, buttons and knobs to pixels and redundant mouse movements. But enough rambling about the downside of the virtual studio environment, and on to a very exciting new breakthrough by two companies who, with their recent announcements, are showing true dedication and leadership in keeping an ever-growing unwieldy trend somewhat standardized and cued up for the future. This provides extremely exciting opportunities for audio software manufacturers to integrate simultaneously-running applications, both on the Mac as well as the PC platforms. ReWire , a strict audio stream protocol, acts much like a digital audio patchbay within your computer, providing 'connections' between the inputs and outputs of ReWire -compliant applications.