> You talked about a suite of plugins which auto-configure themselves
> based on track analysis. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that doesn't
> require (just) inter-plugin communication, it requires that the
> entire suite is developed together as a unit, you can't just make
> different random plugins talk together and magically "make a decision
> together" - whatever that means - (hence Paul Davis' fist comment:
> "[to] do what they want, they need their own DAW").

I disagree on that, based on so many protocols existing out there that
are not proprietary, that can be used openly.