Akai Force Quick Guide: Drum Kit & Keygroup Basics
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Easy, this is a tutorial on making your own drum kits & keygroups quickly on the Akai Force.
I went on a little longer than intended, but also show you how you can have more than one sound in a keygroup.
Have fun!
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Shift edit and clip that’s what I was trying to remember. My force has been in repair for two months so I got to brush up. Thanks again for the content.
Brother ; Thank you for your guide. I have an akai force too and make beats on it as well.
Thanks for this. It helped a lot
I had no idea about that shift + edit function. Super useful!! Especially when I can’t get a loaded key group in my Matrix to play a single note! Lol. Thanks man.
I guess it is kind of off topic but does anybody know of a good place to stream newly released tv shows online?
excellent
mate..we need more video! thx a lot
Thank you sir!
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At 4:30 you take a cell from a drum kit and turn it into a key group by pressing shift+edit and the pad. But hare you able to switch back to access the whole kit again?
Thanks! These have really been helping
Ohhh never mind. I missed it when the key group starts on its own track. Got it!
You know any reason why audition doesn’t work properly for the samples? I have the new firmware. It briefly plays it but stops the sample really short. Thanks for the vid. Very helpful!
You can change the length of the preview in the preferences, cheers for watching.
@@nicethings ahhh I seee. Cheers mate!
@@nicethings hey dude, so, I got to Audition and Preview I’m General and have changed all setting with nothing increasing the length of the audition. Any idea what’s up with this?
What is your best method for storing kits? Do you make an extra folder for each drum kit or do you save them all in the same folder? I'm just curious because I noticed that the samples and the kit file all end up together in one folder, that could get pretty messy with a lot of kits, would be nicer if the samples ended up in a subfolder.
Good question, but I tend to make up kits as I go for each project, or get stock kits and customise.
@@nicethings That's what I also do most of the time, so I stumbled over this pretty late. Maybe I should make a feature request for subfolders in the Akai forum :)
thanks, the manual doesn't really go into keygroups. I've had to figure out a lot by watching what youtube vids are out there. not too many for the force. subscribed. cheers! had a chance to try it out... this is the short cut I had been looking for . yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Heya, great channel! I have a question, not sure if its related to this video. When working with a drum track/instrument are you able to open the mix to adjust volumes of each part of the kit, kick, snare etc? Or are you only able to adjust the overall volume of the kit?
Yep, all you have to do is press Shift + Mixer when on a Drum Program, this will bring up the submixer for each pad as a channel.
So there is no way to make a kit from scratch without loading another? I mean if it works it works, but doesn't the previous kit have fx on certain pieces of the kit? DO those get removed when you purge?
You can make sample kits from scratch, I don’t. Yep, the effects are on but I find they’re always useful setups as someone spent considerable time doing it. Yep, whenever you load in a pad (this way) it automatically replaces/purges the file. I just tend to not spend a lot of time doing things from scratch, unless I absolutely have to, but you can literally make a whole kit using a single Hype plugin, it’s that versatile.
can you load akai cds with samples? let's say an akai piano all mapped and ready? thank you
If it’s in a MPC format, it should work.
No bro thank you for going past the basics. Excellent tutorial
Ok maybe someone can help me out. The grid of 16 pads 4x4 can have multiple pages called zones right? I can’t seem to figure out how to go to the other pages. On the Edit Zones menu is see that there are pages A-H.
Shift + Oct -/+
Holy smokes you can split the keyboard between different samples on a key group?!
Yupp
Great lesson. I like the short cuts. I like how you show how to layer your sounds in a program.
Awesome lesson ! Thank you - exactly what i needed ! And I totally dig your style of explaining things :)
Holy shit I had no idea about keygroups
Thanks for all your videos. They explain a lot.
Cool!
Thanks for that nice tutorial! 😎
great quick tutorial! thanks
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128 key group slots! Awesome! Just have a few key group questions 1. are there mute groups available in key groups?
2.Can I use a key group as part of a larger drum kit?
3.Is there a way to convert a key group track to a drum kit track, as they both have 128 slots? Thanks again, RMS
Good questions. 1. No, which kinda makes sense. 2. No, they’re separate programs.Not much point as you can copy multiple pads. 3. Only one way. Drum is for manipulating individual samples, uniquely. Keygroup is manipulating sample, globally (sort of). Unless you’re aiming to create keyboard/synth sounds, drum is always the way to go. N.B. You can have 512 samples in a single drum program, in theory.
@@nicethings Thanks for you reply! Looking forward to your next ep. Cheers, RMS
excellent tip.. im having problems playing from my keyboard synthesizer and wanting to record into akai force while i have tracks playing.. have you any tips please.. maybe i havent got i connected properly ?
Cheers! At present it doesn’t play that well with external stuff (I have intentionally only used this standalone), until the next update. As far as I know, you can only record/play the keys on the track you’re on, so you can only do the reverse; launch clips pads whilst recording the track you’re on (Edit + Launch Config).
@@nicethings thanks for getting back to me i really appreciate that.. yeah its a nice toy the akai force , but it really does need its own DAW .. I really dont know how you work the things out on the the force like you do ? proper skills.. thanks for the tutorials ..
since the update you can easy hook up your synths to the force via USB Hub or midi. Go Midi-out from your synth to theforce midi-in. Go out from the synth audio - OUt to the force audio- IN. make sure the audio IN on the force is set on Intstrument! (little switch on the back of the force) or you will have noices and ground loops. On the end you create 2 tracks on the force, 1 Midi 1 Audio - Track. Setup the Audio - Track to the Audio-Input of the synth (most Channel 1) set up the midi-Track on the force to midi channel 1 (or what ever channel you used on your synth) Since the new update you can now play and record your external synth-sound via audio-IN on the force and same time you can modulate the sound from the synth, whilst its playing on the force and record it to the DAW e.g....:) Hope that helps.