Akai Force Fridays - External MIDI (featuring the Moog Sub37) 

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2 years ago and you haven't played it yet?? Make sure you download the VST plugin, which allows you to control it from your DAW - and then you can save presets with your song that way and automate changes. It's so well designed.

2 years, how is that possible 😮

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Pink Buddha why dont you continue force fridays series?? I follow you since 3 months, i am waiting akai force update (for arranger/Song mode & midi multi capability). Have you heard anything about update?

Robbie Hogg i ordered my Akai Force as soon as Ohio started talking about locking down. So glad I did, really made quarantine so much more bearable. There's a LOT of things to learn, I've watched a lot of videos on it, honestly, when you get one just start on the first video of the Force Friday and play along. They are some of the best at looking at very specific parts of the Force, and time indicators at the beginning of the videos make it easy to go back to exactly what you are looking for. At this point I've stopped searching for other videos and just review past Force Friday's as needed. Definitely pick one up man, well worth the investment!

Glad you liked it!

yeh that's a bit rubbish, i hope they attend to that in a bugfix..is that the same case with MPC?

Right?!

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy Did Multi-midi mode fix this problem?

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I know it's quite off topic but do anybody know of a good website to stream newly released movies online ?

@Eric Jesse flixportal =)

@Everett Karter Thank you, signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :D Appreciate it !

@Eric Jesse Happy to help xD

haha....super glue to the nose? I don't even know what that means.

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Good suggestion! I'll do that

Glad you think so!

Thanks, you too!

Yes...I'll be doing an updated video soon

And the midi settings in the Preferences on the Force.

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Moog is the best

Yes...but not sure how much they are similar or different

You can...I figured it out afterwards. It’s a bit klunky though

lol....hey, you dissin' my music??

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy Better continue with tutorials ;)

Hmmm....I don't know how to describe my music. It's more like underground hiphop/electronica. I usually just say it's a mix of James Blake, Tom Yorke, and Philip Glass (with a pinch of Aphex Twin and Kanye). Links in the description for listening to my music elsewhere.

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Erica Synths one - it's awesome!

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy Thank you! I love my Doepfer P9, but looking to expand... Looks nice af

It is! But kind of expensive! 😅

Hmm...I don't really know anything about the Fantom. Sorry!

Can you not connect/recognize any midi device with the Force?

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy Thank you for the reply. I was able to get the midi situation solved. Now I'm just dealing with getting the audio from the midi that's triggered on my Yamaha Montage to record on an audio track on my Force. But I'm pretty sure this is something that I will have to correct via my Montage.

Like reverb and delay? You have to get audio into the force beeper you can apply affects

🤦‍♂️ didn't even think about that! ✌️✌️

Ugh that sucks

As I said to your other comment - the Force now supports using an audio interface, up to 32 (I think??) different audio channels in and out. So you have plenty if you use a separate interface.

You know...I honestly don't remember. That was a while ago

Honestly, I was really just messing around. No plan.

Not really...as you can't map that particular feature to external midi

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy Dag nabbit!!! I want a hardware version of Ableton!! 😤

Interesting - haven't really explored that to see if that's the issue with mine.

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy Hi there. That should be the case. There are 2 "standarts" to 3,5mm MIDI cables. And i´ve noticed that you had a white adapter in your hands. The Force´s originals are black. I have put labels on my cables so i don´t get confused with them. For that reason i realy love the elektron cycles ( i believe every other elektron does that too). It has some setting you can use to tell the hardware witch cable-standart you are using.

Yeah - can't control MIDI channels (yet?). Just whatever track you're on. Which sucks.

With the sub37? I should do it - it's such an amazing synth.

It might be both, because it would be midi going out to send what you want the hardware to play. But then you need an audio track to record the audio coming back in.

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Did they do the update? I'm considering buying it.

So true

Thanks! I'll put it in the queue (but it's a long list, sadly!)

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy PLEASE FINISH IT!

Yeah - but I don't really like the Force plugins, for instruments. But that's just me. I really hate virtual synths most of the time in everything, not just the Force.

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy I know it’s no moog, but how does quality compare to Roland or Logic Pro X virtual synths?

Yes! It's been fixed in the latest updates (a year ago, I think?). So now you can have external MIDI assigned to a specific track, or just bouncing between whatever track you are on.

Nothing. They are the same.

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy thank you very much !

You know, the Force cv outs are a bit quirky and funky - don't always work right.

I often want to record the midi notes first, so I can correct them and get it just like I want it. Then let the Force "play" the keyboard, while I record the audio - so I can use both hands to mess with the knobs on the Moog.

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy thank you

Same problem? with controlling the force?

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy Yes, I think it was about that. But I am going to buy an akai mpc one. No problems with that.

Lol...you mocking me?

Nah man you shred. The video is not great quality.I know we can agree on that. It's all.love brother

I mean, you are not incorrect. I'm trying to figure out the right camera situation. 🤷‍♂️

Yes - 3.0.6 is the newest version when I write this, and MIDI is much better. Only problem is that you can’t map external cc control (except pitch bend, sustain pedal, and modulation wheel). and you can’t map them, it’s just that these are the only external cc that the Force reads.

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy Ok, great :) My plan is to reward myself with one of these after a few completed university exams.. ^_^ It would be great if at least channel volume could be controlled from external sources, especially motorized stuff like behringer bcf 2000 =)

Omg yes. It's my desert island synth.

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy I can only afford the sub 25 so it will have to do. Ordering it tomm.