Not sure what you mean by "armed"? I'm guessing you don't mean record-armed?
What's the problem with the long load time? Surely you do this before you go on? Or get someone in a black t-shirt to do it for you? Because show biz
It's possible the SWS/S&M live config stuff may be of use to you.
https://www.bschnell.de/LiveConfigs_1.pdf