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Launching sessions worked great for this. I disabled looping on my pre-fermata rhythm track and made it the right number of bars so it would automatically stop at the pause. Then single pedal press to trigger the post-fermata rhythm track.

Thanks again. You two are indeed jolly good fellows.

Many thanks, gents. I'll give that a go tonight or tomorrow.

Two other thoughts I had before I read those:

* Map tempo to a MIDI pedal with heel down at the song BPM and toe down at some super-low BPM, basically stopped. I tried this, but it didn't work because min tempo is apparently 20 BPM. Doh ...

I'd like to find a way to momentarily pause a MIDI track to create a fermata during live performance. Ideally MIDI play would resume at the next quarter note or bar when the pause is released, but that's just gravy.

Dumb example: suppose I'm playing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" with live guitar ...