This is a "best of both worlds" proposition.

Have your cake and eat it too.

Plug up and work with your vst's.
You have 8 audio tracks in standalone and 128 when it's plugged in.

Away from a pc for while, on vacation or what have you?

Render your vst tracks to .wavs, put it on a thumb or sd card and work on other elements while you're away.

Hell it even has a rechargeable battery for standalone mode.

You got the bubble guts? You could, conceivably, work wirellessly on the toilet. It's gross but possible. Lol.

You could spend an afternoon at Golden Corral and bang out beats from your pc session between buffet trips.

Or hammer out beats while you're wife drives on something other than a Boss DR x0x.

Whoever informed you got it backwards: this isn't a standalone touch, this is Touch if it had standalone. Word is the touch screen had better response too.