DM60
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It's still used for normal audio exporting from a DAW, like when you are finished with a project.
Some DAWs like Logic do have "Bounce in place" function that can help save processing power when you're doing your beatz and you've got like a hundred tracks of sub drops and wub wubs and fifty different synth plugins.
Another name for this is Freeze. Used often for a track that has heavy processing. It is technically a bounce/render, but it does it much easier, you can still adjust volume and to unfreeze is pretty simple. This can come in handy on a large project with lots of processing.