Hmmmm. I get what you mean, and definitely need to avoid cookie cutter production. But the way I'm envisaging it, is like having a stable hardware studio. You have your favourite synths, your mixing desk with EQs, your favourite reverbs, compressors etc all wired up on the busses. That way when you start messing about you are using your studio as a tool as the template for your sound. Your machines, and the way you route them help define your sound and speed up your workflow.

The way I'm working at the moment is equivalent to building a new studio for scratch every time I start a project. Choosing all the gear, setting it up, plugging it in, then burning it to the ground at the end of each track and starting afresh. Which is nice I guess, but its a lot of wasted time, and it means that every track sounds different, through use of different plugins, different routing and sometimes different DAWs for each project.