Changing to a hardware synth yes.

You have the problem of latency on playback, and in your case I don't see much of a workaround.

I just looked at that switch and indeed you can map it to start band in a box, but I 'd freeze tracks before I do that.

the usb foot switch they describe on the details for that type of footswitch show it to be just a switch goes to usb and the computer thinks it's just part of the keyboard.

John Conley
Musica est vita