Hi Andy,
“But then everything you then say is very interesting in this regard: a plugin that drives volume and pan would indeed be useful…if I could tell it to do “this” over x amount of time in the way that automation curves in a DAW do.”
Yes, the idea is to connect the curve duration to the loop length. So, it will be possible, for example, to tell the curves will have a “x loops length duration”, as it is in the macro world. But this will be possible with graphical settings.
Philippe