Akai Force Tutorial: Use Sample Pad Automation To Create Interesting Drums 

Maxipok is the Deep Features Sensei....

No problem, I’m glad you are finding them useful! The Keys 61 looks like a beast, very interested to hear the new plugins in action. Have fun with it! 🙂

Honestly, I have never heard of Rex files before 😃 But I will do some research and see what I can come up with! 🙂

@@MaxipokMusic you will be pleasantly enlightened then. Basically tempo synced warping without artefacts. New creative possibilities.

@@MaxipokMusic We just know Maxipok will come up with yet another mindblowing trick/workflow....

Never knew that! I have whole archives of Rex files I thought were redundant in this day & age.

I’m not near my Force at the moment so can’t test it, but I thought it was per-clip rather than per track. If you add some automation to a clip then copy and paste it as usual, select the duplicate and then press shift + delete automation (bottom row) you can try moving between the two and see if it’s persistent.

@@MaxipokMusic My mistake - I've just checked and it does seem to be clip based. Don't know how I missed that! Then, yes indeed, this thing is killer. Combined with the envelope follower and macros, this gives you the kind of modulation flexibility you get in modular, especially once the probability comes, as you say.

Push 2 is a really nice device, but the reason I switched was to do with performance. Push has track focus, meaning it will only display or let you control one ‘thing’ at a time. For example you can have the mixer up, or device controls, but not both. And the knobs are fixed to the selected mode, so you can’t map them to macros and have the stay available regardless of the track you have armed, like you can with the Force. So in a nutshell, it only lets you do one thing at a time, whereas you can set the Force up to give you access to macros, mixer, clip / scene launching, and note mode all at the same time. It’s the only device I know of that can do this, making it great for performance. You can get Push to sort of do this, but I means using Max For Live and buying a couple of scripts (push hacker for example), but even with that it’s not as flexible. If I was just making music in Ableton I’d have kept the Push, but as I like making performance videos, Force was the best option.

@@MaxipokMusic thank you so much for that detailed reply! That really helps.

Yep I know what you mean, it doesn’t come naturally to me either. I wonder if it depends whether you started out on Roland xox boxes? The allegedly coming probability stuff will really open this up for making evolving patterns though, pretty cool…

@@MaxipokMusic tbh probability is not the thing I've been waiting for. One thing that bothers me is no drum-master page See, for melodic plugins knob->track is giving you possibility to change parameters on the run for all notes in clip, however while you go there while you are in drum track is it useless, cause macros are just dumb and assigned to a single pad. If they were assigned to "master" drum track and have one reset button or knob, it would be so perfect to jam with.

@@beats4trips You can stack multiple macros on a single knob, and set them to momentary so it will snap back to base values when you release the knob, that kind of does what you are describing. I use that sort of setup a lot in performance videos. If there’s a limit to the number of parameters you can stack on a single macro I haven’t encountered it yet… 😃

@@MaxipokMusic yeah. I incorporated this in my template, but tbh it should be on the "track" page. While it's on macro, i need to switch between track and macro project in knob section because my performances are based on melodic plugins movement like cutoff/reso, which are in track section. Nevertheless, I'm going to try drum sequencing, as it's kinda tempting right now

That’s a head scratcher, without seeing what’s going on I’m not sure. I would suggest resetting preferences, creating a new project and then putting some samples on pads and seeing if it persists. The only thing I can think of is if you went to track edit and instead of having ‘all’ selected, you’ve tweaked an envelope or something on a few individual pads and haven’t spotted that. Also check your pad mixer and see if any sends have been applied to individual pads.

Had a nightmare uploading this one, the processing kept failing and then RU-vid clipped the end for some reason. It’s only a few seconds so I decided to leave it! 😬

Ahh thats weird. Well if you decided to leave it I can take it that I didn't miss anything. Awesome content as always man.