[linux-audio-user] Song (i.e. project) managers ?

[lanas]

Folks,

  Now that I got some things running (jack, Zyn, Hydrogen and Ardour)
not int he best of ways, but still, I get fun from trying this and thus
doing little jams.  I reckon that I have a lot more to learn and would
eventually like to use Studio64 (now using CCRMA) to take most benefit
from the machine.

  So now that I do some jams using accoustic guitar and software-based
sounds, I start to wonder if there are any song (i.e. project) managers
out there that could, say, launch all apps with the proper settings
according to a song ?

  Better yet.  We have MIDI.  This is quite a standard that everyone
seems to adhere to.  We have Jack. Now, is there a standard means to IPC
between audio apps ?  Such that a song manager could IPC (and
eventually launch apps that are not running) to the various apps used
for song, setting along the way the parameters for each app through
IPC ?

  Such a song manager could, using this standardized IPC, get a dump of
relevant settings from all apps contributing to a song project and save
that to disk to be recalled at a later time.  Project templates could
also be made.

  So, are there any utilities like that out there ?  Is it possible to
IPC to at least some of the audio apps out there ?

Cheers,
Al