@jon - hehe same move mate. Am a cubase guy, slowly making baby steps towards ableton. Its frustrating and exciting in equal measures.

Yeah - was thinking of templates in terms of how you wire up hardware - like a giant routing map with everything synched in and ready to go. Then you just have to play about with midi files, sound design and do the necessary balancing act with EQs to get things to fit together.

Think I might go with the idea of templates for EPs - try and get a consistent sound and feel for 3 to 4 tracks, then move on and build another template.

Need to do something to save time... driving me nuts how long its taking to finish work.