Digitech Jamman question about on-the-fly triggering

[alfaBAT9]

Heyyy.

So I just scored one of these on the Craigs and so far it's really great. Even came with the external 3-button footswitch. A little dusty but a quick wipe and it's pretty much good as new.

Wondering if it's possible for me to trigger samples (keyboard tracks) on the fly, without having to wait until the current loop/sample finishes? Knowing my band, synching up the Jamman's click with the drummer's click is going to be a giant headache.

The reason this would work is that the samples are literally just chords played on a mellotron – no riffs or anything complex that requires precise synchronizing. I figure I could create extended samples of each chord (like 5 seconds, knowing I'll only be using about 3 seconds, but just in case we're running the song a tad slow that particular night we're covered) and just trigger them as the chords change. No click tracks necessary.

Anyone know if that's possible? I realize this kind of thing can easily be done with a MIDI trigger and a laptop, but I have no desire to spend that kind of coin for a matter of a few songs.

[alfaBAT9]

It just dawned on me that I could just queue up the next sample (using the bank up/down on the external 3-button footswitch), hit stop on the current sample (on the Jamman), and quickly hit play for the next sample (on the Jamman). It might be hard to get the transition seamless but if done quick enough the change should be clean.

I guess that's the best bet so far.