I've been using Reaper a lot more here lately. Not sure why cause I am a HUGE Ardour fan. Being that it is opwnsource and Reaper isnt. But I'm a firm beliver in use what works for you. Lol.
Reaper is quite astounding when you find out all the things it can do for the relatively small price they ask for it. It really is one of the best in the business.

Ive been using my LPK25 to trigger my bumper music and sound fx Makes it extremely easy to pound out multiple podcast episodes at once. I'm loving it. I could set it up in Ardour but it just seems to work so much easier with Reaper. Plus you can always find a Reaper tutorial fairly easily on YouTube, lol.

Would you be willing to share your template file or FX chain? I'm always on the hunt for new layouts and fx chains. I fall into the "gear lust" category pretty easily.