I use live on a laptop for stage use mainly as a host for a number of virtual instruments and plugins (NI B4, Akoustik Piano, Atmosphere, Halion etc). At present I have all the instruments loaded and assigned to individual midi channels. I then use patches on my two controllers to play the instrument I want and on the instruments that allow it (B4 for example) select the preset I want. On others (such at atmosphere) I have saved presets that I manually load.
Some of the more recent songs I am doing with the band use up to 4 instruments per track and manually loading the patches is time consuming and prone to error.
Is there a way in Live to create a scene/snapshot for each song which I could assign to a button/key which would load all the required patches, routings and effects etc at the touch of a button? or is it a case of create a session for each song and load a different session for each song?