What I'd like to see in Sonar automation (ideally)

Apart from just fixing and refining what is there already, I'd actually like to see a whole new approach to automation in future versions. I know this is just a pipe dream. 

As much as automation lanes and envelopes make perfect sense for some automation tasks, for others they're a cumbersome and unwieldy PITA. Especially when you're automating multiple effects on a track. I know this might not apply to everyone, but sometimes - especially when you're working on electronic genres - it's not out of the ordinary to want to automate the parameters on five or more effects in a chain. Let's say you're automating three parameters on five effects (even if it's just pushing buttons in and out) - that's 15 automation lanes. It's too much. 

In addition to this, there is the distinction between discrete automation and continuous automation. It makes sense to draw an envelope for a gradual swell in volume or a movement of the R-Mix window, but what about turning effects on and off? Or discrete changes in a parameter value? When I'm drawing what looks like a square wave as an automation envelope, and indeed drawing many of these square wave envelopes for multiple automation tasks on the same track, I can't help thinking that there must be a better way. 

What I envision is some kind of alternative to drawing envelopes, a way of expressing the automation of multiple discrete parameter changes in the same lane. I'm picturing a series of automation nodes, as before, but each one of those nodes can represent a list of automation events, which appears when you hover the mouse over it or click on it. 

For instance, a node might contain the following event list:

* Set Sonitus Delay Mix(L) to 30%
* Set Sontius Delay Mix(R) to 15%
* Turn off vallhallaRoom
* Set ProChannel EQ HP to 600Hz
* Set ProChannel EQ LP to 3000Hz


Of course you can enter and edit these events in a separate event list window. I'm also picturing a more efficient way of choosing the parameters you want, perhaps by clicking a "choose" button and then clicking on the relevant knob on the effect in question. 

Of course this is just a rough idea and I'm sure many of you will immediately see what's wrong with it (or wonder why in the hell anyone could want such a feature in the first place) and also I have no idea how this would work in conjunction with continuous automation envelopes. But I'm just throwing it out there, because when I'm working with intricate automation I sure as hell get the overwhelming sense that there has to be a tidier and more efficient (especially in terms of screen estate) way of doing it. 

I also have no idea if the above idea is implemented in other DAW's, having only had experience with Sonar and Pro Tools. 

Sharke :

"For instance, a node might contain the following event list:

* Set Sonitus Delay Mix(L) to 30%
* Set Sontius Delay Mix(R) to 15%
* Turn off vallhallaRoom
* Set ProChannel EQ HP to 600Hz
* Set ProChannel EQ LP to 3000Hz "

I you have 'blocks' in your track in which several parameters need changing at the same time,
wouldn't you be better off with a series of clips, each their own properties/effects/automation ?