Michael I finally remembered to check out your Soundcloud page, lots of people here have one and I keep forgetting. It's very nice and well mixed too.

What might work for you is the Conductor. It's not perfect either but it has tons of options. You control it from a PC keyboard. Basically it works with part markers on the chord grid. Set it to either jump immediately or at the next part marker and set the jumps to anywhere.

The thing you're asking for right now is to extend the bridge. You can do that by hitting the key to jump back to the beginning of the bridge at the next part marker. Experiment with that because of course the part markers also create a drum fill but if it fits your song you could have a part marker every 4 bars for example to give you a bit of freedom as to where to jump from but it always jumps back to the beginning of the bridge regardless of what part marker you use for the jump if you set it that way. But, you could also set it to jump to the middle of the bridge or anywhere else by hitting a different key. Lots of possibilities here.

Of course, you still have to manually hit a key and that could be tricky if you're also playing a part live to record. Maybe the Conductor can work using a midi footswitch, dunno never tried that.

Bob

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