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

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