Akai Force Workflow: Making A Track From Scratch (Full Process With Descriptions) 

Wow this process was very nice to watch, you did great at showing us how to use this machine. Thank you.

Very nice, I enjoyed just listening while I was getting other things done, will have to come back and watch for learning techniques, and seeing how this differs from my MPC Live II.

Another good video/tutorial. Like the way you perform.

Nice. I’m getting closer to getting one. I definitely like the work flow I’ve seen in this video as well as others

Thx! Great video!

Thanks for sharing, Ideas and inspiration. Great video again!!! Greetings and happy new year from The Netherlands!

Brilliant video!

Im new to the Force, have a native Inst mk3, so the work flow is crazy different. I learned a lot here and on your other videos, thanks for the sharing. Love to see a lot more from you. And I enjoyed your "OK" song too.

Excellent channel, my friend! You not only make learning the Force look so much easier, but you jam with it, showing the fun that can be had also. Thanx for sharing your experience with us.

Very clear process example.

Very nice 👍🏻

Really helpful!!!

This is on my top list buy now...

Muito bom. Obrigado

Dope I like it 👌

Nice one 😎😍😎 thumbz up 👍👍

great tutorial my friend and a nice tune from scratch, sounds really good mate, ...i couldn't make a track in front of the camera, i'm to nervous 😊😊👍👍💯💯🎶🎶✨✨

Duuuude! What a beautiful sounding and refreshingly different track!? Tons of ideas for creating interest here and creative use of effects. Now for the bugbear and I see this with almost every video I watch on electronic music…. Tons of attention on everything except the harmonic development. The bassline hangs on the same note all the way through and I was absolutely willing it to change, particularly in the B section. Is it just fashionable to have a song with one chord all the way through or is it because people don’t know how to develop an idea? Or do people just like hearing all tension and no release?! The daft thing is it doesn’t take much to achieve this. Maybe I should make a video on this?

I like the Force for writing and arranging, but finding sounds is so tedious. They need a solution like the new MPC61 where it is much easier to find sounds and presets. I have not used the NI MK3 but can see it has a far better browsing/tagging system.

Thank you for sharing! Very helpful. I just got a Force with a bunch of expansions that all seem to be quite useless for me. However, I like the drumloop you used. Not so over the top as the loops I find in my own library. Where did you find it? An expansion pack? Or somewhere else?

Great video! Do you ever use the sample key detection and then match that up to the scale performance?

I hoped this would have annotations describing every button press. I know it's a lot of work but I bet a lot of people would appreciate this. I've only seen one video that does this. This is an extremely complex, unintuitive device that I've never got to grips with and I've got a Degree in Music Technology! I'll try watching it in slow motion.....

Hi, thanks for this video. Can you help me? I bought a force and Akai keyboard 25 mini, I'd like play a sample (vocal Song part) using my keyboard during my dj set, how can i do this? Many thanks for your answer.

is the vocal sample and the drum loops something that comes with the original stock sounds or are they from an expansion pack?

Where do you get your vocal samples from? Thanks got the video!

Does the Force have Splice integration?

It's really a pity that I don't understand anything, a small French translation like many people do would have been welcome but I manage with the visual and sincerely after having shunned AKAI, and by dint of watching your videos, this machine starts to inspire me a lot.

There’s a problem you solved when you did complete beginners guide to the Force - he perfect video for a beginner… so I as very hopeful with this. Literally it seems no one has done that for making a piece of music. And I mean no one! As in talking as in saying EXACTLY which sample they used. It’s always one you won’t get hold of Nevee from factory set. Then there are vague tweets and turns of knobs not explained .., there are ideas semi explained…. I don’t get why not. Even if it was twinkle star. Simple lead simple bass simple pad simple drum track. No vague settings … no ‘well it’s an individual thing’ etc just even a synthwave track. There’s nothing! … some come close like this and somehow from this I will get somehow closer maybe if I can find the sample .. unlikely … and I will try and freeze your captions and Ty and read it all sure … and I will do that over and over but it all just makes it so much harder…. Please please don’t get me wrong I’m incredibly great full for the effort you’ve put in. Thank you! It’s just all incredibly frustrating for a beginner… I will get there but damn I just want to be able to make a simple song. Again thank you for all your efforts I really am great full

Is “shonky” even a word lol 😆

You understand your equipment pretty well. Great work. Keep grinding.