For me personally, this is exactly what I've been waiting for and
it's finally here.

>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.