Actually, some of the stuff doesn't happen between the daw and the editor and do happen with the editor and the hardware. An example of this is how things coming into the daw can be processed. With the mlan expansion this makes it so the hardware (motif) is responsible for audio i/o. Finally, there are no other pieces of hardware that are VST3 compatible, and if someone was thinking the editor was a replacement for a motif xs/xs rack, they have serious issues and should probably brush up on the VST3, previous versions and how sysex is or isn't implemented in this editor.