Track Versions have NOTHING to do with this idea.
About 15 years ago, I asked if it would be possible to have a ‘Sidekick’… ie. a pop-up window (now like the notifications deal on iPhone) which you could ALWAYS instantly have to hand regardless of what you were working on. In my vision, it would come pre-loaded with 3 tracks:
MIDI Piano,
Vocal Audio
Guitar Audio
… You’d hit ‘Ctrl-Whatever’, it would appear and you’d start recording your ‘scratchpad’ idea. It would have a ‘Save as CPR’… just like the iPhone Voice Memo.
Then you’d get back to yer main project. It’s for MUSICIANS, not engineers. It’s to capture fleeting ideas before they drift away because a LOT of times? You’ve got literally SECONDS before your idea is gone. LITERALLY. You just don’t have time to switch CPRs or cables or -anything-. Your mind has this barest thread of something and you need to get it down NOW!!! Or it’s gone. We’ve all had these… typically as we’re drifting off to sleep or distracted.
I can always tell the ‘engineer’ types by how they react to this idea. MUSICIANS love it. Engineers? They suggest workarounds. There -is- no workaround.
The Presonus implementation (from the demo) is a great step forward.