Using tracks for song arrangement info and markers

Here's my approach to labeling song sections, by repurposing a MIDI track and using its clips to indicate those songs sections (see image below).

Basically I create some dummy information on a new MIDI track, and then I extend out the MIDI Clip to represent a section of a song.  I can then use that clip to help select a section of the song for rearrangement purposes or just simply to identify the section more clearly.
 
True, I could use markers for this purpose, but I find they get very cluttered with all the notes I want to make.  However, by using a MIDI track for this information I can create as many tracks and spread out the marker type information (e.g. song sections, to do reminders, etc.)
 
I'd love to see Sonar incorporate non-audio/midi tracks that can hold this type of information.  What do you think? 
http://variousartist.com/sonar/PeterMatuchniak_Sonar_InformationTracks.jpg
 
 
 
It would be cool if we could have new types of tracks for these purposes:
 
Existing track types:
- audio
- MIDI
 
Suggested new track types:
- marker/arranger (song sections)**
- To Do list
- lyrics
- chords
- BPM ruler
- SMPTE ruler
- blank (for spacing large projects)
Etc
 
**Selecting an arrangement section would automatically select the entire set of tracks within that time-selection.  And moving that arrangement/marker clip would automatically move everything else too.  Simples!
 
Regardless, you would be able to add in multiple track types of the new kind.  So I could have multiple marker/arranger tracks (one could be used to describe low level song sections, such as verse, chorus, etc., and another could be high-level sections, such as part 1, part 2, etc.).  I could also add in multiple BPM/SMPTE ruler tracks so that these line up against any audio/midi track for ease of reading etc. (this would be especially useful if a I had a movie sound track that required noises at a particular time, whereas another audio track was lined up against an BPM ruler for musical purposes).  Etc

I just saw this link:
http://forum.cakewalk.com...spx?m=3223733&fp=2

Sorry for the redundancy;-)

VariousArtist
I just saw this link:
http://forum.cakewalk.com...spx?m=3223733&fp=2

Sorry for the redundancy;-)

No need to apologize.  I like the idea of a track ruler ...

That video was rather eye opening for me. I like those features a lot.
 
Edit: This was released just yesterday and already has a demo of professional out?? LOL

VariousArtist
I've set up key-bindings in Sonar so that my left and right arrow keys jump from marker to marker.  It's a really cool and quick way to navigate key sections of a song.  Very efficient workflow for me. 
 
The only downside to my workflow is if I add a lot of markers for different purposes, and that's where I'd like to realize the benefits of multiple "marker tracks".  If I could have one marker track for song sections, and another for my to-do list, and so on, then it would be great if my left-right arrow jumps could be context-sensitive to the marker track that has my focus.
 
These are some of the workflow enhancements I'd love to see.  The arranger idea is a special case for my suggestion though I think it would be a great benefit to moving sections of songs without having to specifically select those regions (which isn't bad to do now, but every little click saver helps).

Now I REALLY like the idea with the focus bit added.  I hope you capture this in an FR

With the markers it would be great to be able to name the ranges defined by the markers.
Have those ranges appear in a browser tab and select to audition, move etc.
That's where the S1-v3 feature of then being able to move those ranges to a new composing window (scratchpad) is just genius.

If we could add those ranges to the mix recall window in a particular order you could easily rearrange a song and call up different versions of the actual song sections.