Originally Posted By: Skip Ellis
...my problem arises when I want to do extended solos over a set of chord changes - say something simple like a 12 bar blues.


Check out the Conductor, it will do this perfectly. Basically, you need access to your laptop's keyboard. You set the Conductor to use a number key such as 1 and typically set it to one or two bars before a part marker but set it to not jump until the next bar. You can set it to jump the instant you hit the number key but to me that's awkward. Unless your timing is perfect, you're messing with the count of the song. That gives you a bar to hit the 1 key and it will loop or jump somewhere else. Also set the ending to say, the number 2 key and one bar before the part marker. If you hit 2 during that bar it will jump to the ending bar number and you're out.

Having said that I've heard it doesn't work so well with some Real Tracks but I know it works perfectly if you're using a midi synth. When the RT's first came out I tested the Conductor with them and they worked great but that was just a small amount of early RT's and since then we've gotten hundreds - thousands? - of new RT's with different things added and people have said many don't work so just give it a try and see.

Bob

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