Sony Vegas has a clip right-click context-sensitive option to "Apply Clip Attributes." You first copy the clip with the attributes you want, and then you click on a clip and choose "Apply Clip Attributes." This applies any effects and attributes (like pan and crop), but leaves the clip contents alone. 
 
With SONAR, I think the best implementation would be if you copied a track, then the context-sensitive menu would show "Copy Track Attributes" and if you copied a clip, then the context-sensitive menu would show "Copy Clip Attributes." 

Anderton
With SONAR, I think the best implementation would be if you copied a track, then the context-sensitive menu would show "Copy Track Attributes" and if you copied a clip, then the context-sensitive menu would show "Copy Clip Attributes." 

Awesome idea, Craig!
 
I still think we'd need the ability to add an effect to multiple existing  tracks though, so that nothing else get's changed.

I've often wished for a simple right click " repeat last comand". Then you could keep dropping in. If you could select or'swipe' multiple tracks and do it. Even better...

PilotGav

Anderton
With SONAR, I think the best implementation would be if you copied a track, then the context-sensitive menu would show "Copy Track Attributes" and if you copied a clip, then the context-sensitive menu would show "Copy Clip Attributes." 

Awesome idea, Craig!
 
I still think we'd need the ability to add an effect to multiple existing  tracks though, so that nothing else get's changed.

If there were already effects in the rack that might complicate things...for example would the effect insert after any existing effects, or before? So even though the object would be to save mouse click/drags, if you had to open each track and drag the inserted effect to its proper place within an FX rack, that would defeat the purpose of saving mouse click/drags.
 
Probably the simplest implementation would be if "insert" could be added to things that can be Quick Grouped, and the FX would automatically go at the end of any FX already in the rack. The presumption would be that any effects you already had in there were premeditated, so anything new you wanted to add would be to process the existing combination of effects.
 
For now I ctrl+drag from one FX rack to the next, which doesn't seem like that big a deal to me. If I had to choose between being able to copy track attributes or do a "global" insert, given that I use track and project templates, I'm sure I'd get more use out of the track attributes copy option. There aren't a lot of effects I want on every track, other than Console Emulation but ProChannel modules can be quick grouped for insertion.
 
Hmmm...since you can turn any effect into an FX chain, and insert FX chains in the ProChannel, adding "open FX Chain preset" to the list of Quick Groupable parameters would provide at least a partial solution.

I thought I might be able to bypass / trick something in the system, and get all clever-like.  So I inserted an FX rack into ProChannel, set up an SSL channel and Fabfilter Q-2 in it, saved it as an FX rack, then set it as a default bus :)  No love...it kept the order of modules, including the FX rack being first, but with no effects in it :)

Yes, that's why I think loading an FX Chain preset, if Quick Groupable, would do at least part of what you want.

It would somewhat.  At some point when I'm feeling really industrious I will try using the S-Type setting built into the ProChannel to see if it gives me the same or very similar sound / feeling as Waves' SSL channel. May as well since it is built in AND I can set it first in the bus's module order.  But change is hard sometimes, especially when you are in the middle of a project...
 
I'm also going to try using the built in bus EQ more, instead of FabFilter's Q-2, since it has the new bigger pop-out window, etc. I would like it more if it actually popped out and could be put anywhere on my screens and be made larger (maybe it does and I just haven't found it yet.)  I did some comparing to FabFilter Q-2 last night, and it sounded / behaved pretty much like Q-2 except for Q-2 giving a 96db cutoff slope where QuadCurve does just 48db.  

Anderton
 
 
If there were already effects in the rack that might complicate things...for example would the effect insert after any existing effects, or before? So even though the object would be to save mouse click/drags, if you had to open each track and drag the inserted effect to its proper place within an FX rack, that would defeat the purpose of saving mouse click/drags.

 
Shoot you're right! Good catch!

Yeah, Logic just slams effects into every track on command.  Great for putting channel emulators in each track instantly.

whitejs
Yeah, Logic just slams effects into every track on command.  Great for putting channel emulators in each track instantly.

SONAR has been able to do that for over a year as a Quick Group function. Check out the info on the 2016.08 update.