Hi Brent!

You missed a big discussion on this exact topic that was on just yesterday! It came about when a Fabla user requested per-sample outs, and we discussed the option of doing so.

Details of the conversation are here:

Summary of #ardour IRC, discussion with Paul Davis, Robin Gareus and David Robillard

TL;DR;

- Hosts should understand these outputs, and display them to the user *without* the user having to manually route busses etc.

- An LV2 extension for audio ports, and audio port grouping can be used to achieve this.

- Fabla 2.0 will initially have "internal-FX busses", and these can later be exposed using the above LV2 extension.

I feel its worth noting that advanced users won't mind manually-routing said outputs, but since it can be achieved transparently using an LV2 extension, I would see that as a great win for workflow.