[larry b]

A lot of people around here are quite leery of the "bounce to disk" no matter what DAW is discussed. I think the vast majority of professional mixers who work ITB either print their mixes to an external master recorder of some sort, or in the absence of one, will print back into the DAW via a pair of inputs.

There is inherently something added to the signal by passing through additional analog stages as well as an additional instance of d/a and a/d conversion if mixing down digitally, or at least d/a if mixing down to an analog format.

As to exactly how much of a difference this makes, it depends on your analog equipment, audio interface, conversion, etc.

With that said, you should do a comparison. First bounce your mix to disk directly, and then re-record it back into the DAW via analog in/outs. Listen. What do you hear? Any differences?

There's your starting point....