Jump to Song - Specific Section

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Is there a way to program jumping to the middle of another song. For example, i want to jump at the end of the bridge on SONG A >>> the chorus of SONG B?

I can manually do it but how would i automate that?

Thank you

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This sounds like a good feature idea - I’m pretty sure it’s currently not possible.

As a workaround for now, I did come up with a rather inelegant solution - you could use an OSC track, and create an OSC trigger that jumps to the desired section. Based on the docs, it appears that the only way to jump to a section in a future song would be to use /setlist/jumpBySections and be sure to set the second attribute to true.

You would also have to put the cue sometime before the beat you want it to happen on, so that AbleSet has time to queue the jump.

In this example, I set the OSC clip on the 1/4 beat before I want the jump to happen - matching my 1/4 quantization.
In this example, I set the OSC clip on the 1/4 beat before I want the jump to happen - matching my 1/4 quantization.724×196 7.92 KB

This example will jump 5 sections ahead when we get to measure 33.

I’m definitely not recommending this solution, especially since you have to hard-program in the number of sections ahead you want to jump. But if you really need it to work, this should work.

For Léo - it would be great to have an option like this…

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…for the /setlist/jumpToSection command as well.

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Hey @Psnick,

The workaround posted by @s1ah is spot on.

Jumping to a section in another song by name isn’t currently possible — both /setlist/jumpToSection and the >>> transition notation resolve section names within the current song only.

I’ll pass this feature request along. Keep in mind that this kind of cross-song jump can only work within a single project that contains multiple songs.
In a multi-file project setting this wouldn’t be possible.

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