Let’s see (picture attached):
- I’m in the montage
- There are three clip plugins: dither, external FX and a limiter
- There is one master section plugin: a metering plugin
- There is one final FX plugin: dither
- There is one playback plugin: The lineariser
Then,
- I click “Render”
- I left-click “Start”
- I click “Start” (with “audition” ticked)
→ playback is directly from the render to the hardware, not through the playback plugin. However, as mentioned, if I right-click Start in step 2, and choose realtime, playback does go through the PB plugin. It’s very strange, especially since window 3 actually says “Real-time” in both cases 
Thanks,
j,
