Question Synchronizing Animation to Music

Hey there,

I am currently struggling with a problem, about which it seems I just cannot find useful information online...
What I am trying to do is to adjust the timing of my animation to the beat of some music that is playing in my game (trying to build a rythm game).
For a first reference, I used this post: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/audio/coding-to-the-beat---under-the-hood-of-a-rhythm-game-in-unity.
The last section is about manually setting the animation playback to the correct position according to the music.
So I can use this line of code to set the animation to the correct playback position in each Update-call (which works fine so far).

Code (CSharp):

1. animator.Play(currentState, -1, normalizedPlaybackPosition);

Yet, my problem is, that I just don't know, how to make transitions between animations.
It seems, that when I call the Animator.Play() function in each iteration of the Update method, the Animators Transitions just won't get triggered.

I would like to use the AnimatorController as usual, and just adjust the playback position within each animation manually to be in sync with the music...

Any ideas on how I could achieve this (or some knowledge on what the problem is) is very appreciated!

Thanks in advance for any advice