[drenkrom]

This limitation of the TDM architecture could be sidestepped rather elegantly if PT had some macro-programming ability. You know, like that other DAW that starts in "Cu" and finishes in "Base", for example. A nice little menu where you can select operations and place them in the order you want them, assign a key combination to it and BLAM! one key combination solos the track, puts automation on read, bounces the selection, creates an audio track with a logical name, places the bounce on it and mutes the original track.

Oh, the power we could unleash with such simple tools! Maybe in PT9...