How to execute commands for live performance with midi controllers

[tnussb]

Well, when speaking of if it’s possible:

Loading a different arranger sequence is definitely not possible, because there is no way to trigger this from outside the OT. At least you need to have all songs in one large sequence and jump via SPP (Song Position Pointer) messages around.

Some further reading about SPP messages and the arranger:

SPP messages with midi controller?

From the MIDI spec: A sequencer’s Song Position (SP) is the number of MIDI beats (1 beat = 6 MIDI clocks) that have elapsed from the start of the song and is used to begin playback of a sequence from a position other than the beginning of a song. It is normally set to 0 when the START button is pressed to start sequence playback from the very beginning. It is incremented every sixth MIDI clock until STOP is pressed. If CONTINUE is pressed, it continues to increment from its current value. Th…

I’m quite unsure if the MIDI Solutions Event Processor is up to the task, but something like the BomeBox in combination with the MIDI Translator Pro software will definitely be able to handle such “batch jobs”.