Toggle through tracks

[jono grant]

Hi, I have a live situation where I need to toggle between two tracks in cakewalk, so I can activate different synths that correspond to those tracks.

I use my arrow keys for this normally

During the live gig, I won't be able to reach my laptop keys very easily. 

Is there some other way I could trigger toggling through tracks in cakewalk? With a pedal or midi note or something?

Thanks

[Byron Dickens]

Cakewalk is not really intended as a live performance tool. You would be better off using a VST host that is designed for the purpose. I think you can probably set up your keyboard controller to do what you want

[John Vere]

Mr @bitflipper  is our resident keys expert. I believe he has years of experience with live stuff. 
But your keyboard controller should easily be able to do this. 
My Roland has a few assignable buttons I’m sure can be mapped to track focus. I even think my el cheapie Akai can too. 

[jono grant]

I can just use Kontakt in standalone and use the midi keyboard to change midi channels I guess...

Thanks

[John Vere]

If you do. Do you still get stuck notes? 

[jono grant]

On 10/31/2021 at 11:00 PM, John Vere said:

If you do. Do you still get stuck notes? 

I'm on a laptop now with only kontakt running. No stuck notes! The piano pedal causes clicks in the audio though! Can't win...