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Just playing back tracks will sound exactly the same. I am positive the summing is identical, they just add up the numbers, though there is a possibility that some manufacturers would add some distortion to emulate analog, but I doubt they do. (Having said that, PT Mix had a bad reputation for summing, if anyone know why that was, I would be interested to hear it.)
If you use sample rate conversion and such from the DAW, they will sound somewhat different. I heard that PT HD is not very good at this. Not to mention time stretch, pitch shifting and all that.
Of course the plug-ins you use may be different, and that would influence the sound.
If you use good plug-ins and good SRC (such as Voxengo) you should be fine with any DAW. The fact that there is a debate must indicate that the differences are not very big.
Petter
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