I'm not an expert when it comes to ARA, but from what I understand ARA allows a plugin to manipulate audio data within the DAW directly.

If you don't want to compare different version within the DAW by dragging it to new tracks updating them directly will be handy.

Masi


Band-in-a-Box, BiaB-plugin, Reaper, Win10 64bit, i7-8565U, 24GB RAM (always latest versions)