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I know this is an old thread, but you could just freeze & then flatten the tracks in Live. This will render all your Instruments, plus effects, as audio. When you rewire into protools, it will already be pre-processed, so you don't need to actually be running the VSTs.

Only problem is if you were ...

The PT stuff is still way too expensive, but since it's a standard in itself and offers more as a DAW, and I have used it for 10 years and have all my sessions in it, I'll stick with it for now as my main DAW. Just trying to explain why I've gone too far to back out easily from PT now

I'll try ...

I would try reaper as a DAW if I was starting out (in fact I downloaded the demo out of interest), but I have used a $20k Protools rig for the last 10 years, so I would be downgrading and losing the DAW for which I have most skills. reaper does look good value though.

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Tone

there is no way around it (I don't know about Bidule), live does not host 3rd party plugins as a rewire slave.

However, since you're routing the audio to Protools via rewire, just add the effects on the individual rewire channels in protools (rtas or if pthd, rtas and tdm).

The only possible ...

I have used Live as a rewire slave to Protools, but all my many VST plugins vanish in Live. I paid for the full license for Live to use these VSTs (I had the lite version already)
Since I only use RTAS versions of these plugins in Protools, what is the purpose of this? This is really a big obstacle ...