So I appear to have been mistaken. I was under the impression that more plug-ins caused a delay than actually do. Certainly the UAD and LM ones do but I thought a lot more plugs did as well. Hmmm
I checked out the mellowmuse software and it does look good but not perfect. I'd think it'd still get a bit annoying after awhile. Also, it seems there is only 'Aux' groups 1-5...does anyone ever run out of aux groups and once you do how do you deal with that?
Now I'm stuck with a $500 Sonar producer edition that I'm trying to learn...and many hundreds of dollars worth of PT 8 with music toolkit 2 that I am really fast at and know well. Argh I guess I wasted my money on one of them

Oh well, live and learn! I always tend to be too impulsive on these things.
I'm starting to really like SOME things about sonar, but I'm so quick on PT its frustrating. Maybe I can find some reasons to use both. Unfortunately, you can't transfer the Sonar license...