a unique idea on how to use amp sims and synths live and create scene switches.

  I think from all my research on how to do something I know a lot of us would want to know how to do that I have finally figured out a way to use existing functionality inside sonar to play live and switch patches on amp sims and synths without a need to use cantabile or forte.

Snapshots and markers are the key. just program a marker in a project every 10 minutes with a snap shot of a different tone on a different track. Why 10 minutes? You will move to another snap shot before you use up 10 minutes.

Each area of time set off by a pair of markers is dedicated to one ore more tones that you can have active in the snap shot while all the others are inactive.

As you move from marker to marker you switch to a different snap shot were tones deactivate and new ones activate. If you use a controller in act you can program it to move you to the next marker and just use a different template for each tune you are doing. if you have 10 tones or more just create 10 tracks that will be played into and each track has a different tone from a different incidence of what ever amp sim you prefer.

My idea I created a product request for was centered around this idea. The idea is to empower us with a set of options to move to various markers by name say a throug t. That is 20 choices of markers we can jump around to. Each one can be a different tone or even use synths the same way.

The idea would be more powerful if we could move from marker to marker instead of having to rely on a unique template for each song you do just to go from one marker to the next using the next marker functionality.

Doing things that way we'd absolutely need a template for every song we had to play live and we'd have to load them before playing a note and there is a lot more chances a template has a bug in it if you do it that way were as if you only play a set number of tones less than 30 in a night you might get away with only needing to use a couple of templates per set if you structure your set the right way.

Anybody else out there think of doing this as a way to play out live with your same tone you used while playing through amp sims like GR5, amplitube, podfarm etc...?