I've been working with AVID systems since 1992. There is almost absolutely zero chance of them releasing a standalone editor. It would be the first time they ever got away from proprietary type of business model that has served their business model very, very well over the years. Of course I am aware of ProTools now being ASIO and it's opened up which would almost give me a glimmer of hope, but the difference is that by doing that they are opening up more hardware to ProTools, so it's almost like they are getting more ProTools users. But with 11R they've already got you stuck in PT.
If it happens it will be a 3rd party project and at this point I'm not sure if anyone is interested enough to pursue it. It'd be a lot of work for what is still a pretty niche audience.
Sure wish I knew how to do it though.
I'm not so sure in this instance, especially since (as you've pointed out) PT9 now makes it so that your no longer required to have a piece of their hardware connected to your computer to run it. It may not be related at all, but I think that a stand alone editor for THEIR own piece of hardware would be SOOO easy to implement. IMO Avid needs to recognizes this as a necessary upgrade! It's not a deal killer by any means, but cmon Avid...how hard could it be?????
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