A bit of an update here as I believe I've come up with a method to lessen the impact of what I've previously described. I've modified my template to provide a "scratch track" which is routed to a fixed bus along with aux sends to standard effect buses. This "scratch" track has a basic piano plugin assigned for the sole purpose of having an easy way to explore a melody. Of course, I can disable that plugin and assign anything else until I find what the mood calls for. Once the "part" is settled on, I then duplicate the scratch track to a new track. Sure, the new track needs to be routed into a new bus, etc (the steps I've previously described) and such but the benefit here is that I'm now doing this work AFTER the creative process as opposed to before. That's not to suggest the original request is invalid but I wanted to share this approach so others can see where it might improve their own workflows. Obviously, once the new track is put together so it reproduces the work done on the original, the scratch track is just cleaned up (MIDI data deleted along with what ever plugin may have been substituted). Going forward, all new ideas are explored on the "scratch track".
It's not bad.
A bit of an update here as I believe I've come up with a method to lessen the impact of what I've previously described. I've modified my template to provide a "scratch track" which is routed to a fixed bus along with aux sends to standard effect buses. This "scratch" track has a basic piano plugin assigned for the sole purpose of having an easy way to explore a melody. Of course, I can disable that plugin and assign anything else until I find what the mood calls for. Once the "part" is settled on, I then duplicate the scratch track to a new track. Sure, the new track needs to be routed into a new bus, etc (the steps I've previously described) and such but the benefit here is that I'm now doing this work AFTER the creative process as opposed to before. That's not to suggest the original request is invalid but I wanted to share this approach so others can see where it might improve their own workflows. Obviously, once the new track is put together so it reproduces the work done on the original, the scratch track is just cleaned up (MIDI data deleted along with what ever plugin may have been substituted). Going forward, all new ideas are explored on the "scratch track".
It's not bad.