How to build a full song within 1 drum track on the Akai Force // With Project File
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- This video shows how to create a full song on the Akai Force using only 1 drum track. The project file is available for purchase.
Project File contains samples I've made from various of my synthesizers and drum machines. In the video you find how it's best used. You can use it to create new songs, if you put some effort into it and make it your own :)
Get it here:
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To access the macros, hold the "KNOBS" button for a few seconds and press "TRACK" on the touchscreen. hint: It's the icon with the musical notes above it.
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If you want sounds for your samplers and synths check out my store at:
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If you want to see more, I can be found at:
Website: www.expectaz.com
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Expectaz is a live electronic music composer who uses many synths, drummachines and grooveboxes such as these:
Akai Force, Akai MPC Live, Sequential Prophet REV2, Korg Modwave, Korg Wavestate, Elektron Digitakt, Elektron Syntakt, Elektron Digitone, Elektron Analog Rytm, Elektron Analog Four MK2, Analog Heat, Novation Circuit, Novation Monostation, Access Virus, Novation Supernova 2, Arturia Minibrute 2S, Moog DFAM, Tiptop Audio Modular Synth Effects, VPME Quad Drums, Yamaha MODX, Roland JX8P, Roland JX305, Novation Mininova, Pioneer DJM2000, Behringer Neutron, Maschine MK2, Maschine JAM, Ableton Push, Behringer TD-3, Eurorack Gear and Modules, iConnectivity Mio XL, Mio10, Yamaha RS7000, Korg MS2000.
Besides DAWless work he also uses software such as Ableton Live, FL Studio, Bitwig Studio, Native Instruments Komplete and many more..
Support me so I can make more videos, by buying the project file here:
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Man awesome video. So much possibilities with the Akai Force
Thanks for watching! I love to work like this sometimes
Good video. This was the first technique I explored when I got my Force. I split the 8 columns into sections of two tracks each; bass, synth, drums, vocals/FX. I used this template to play many 2-hour performances on stage, using samples from my Ableton projects.
Same here! It works great. When you only use one track you could load tracks on the fly even so theoretically go on for hours
@@Expectaz .. Two such drum tracks and the crossfader, and we're DJ'ing the biggest bangers in the world. I've been planning on a DJ tutorial for years, just never got up to it.
Great job man, I hope you are going to do a lot of new videos! My Force was gathering dust so yeah! Thanks!
Yeah there are a lot more coming! Don’t let your Force gather dust 😁
Hey Expectaz, really nice work and thanks for showing another part of your process. I just bought the project file to support your work, always nice to see how other people set up their projects and you certainly don't ask for too much.
Thanks a lot for the support! It’s one of my workflows and you can easily make longer live sets like this and rearrange later if you want
Looks like a great machine man! It seems u know your way around it too. Like the oldksool trance vibes with the techno grooves.
Those are the styles I’m really into 😁 The Force is really powerful but different than Elektrons for example. Elektron is more like an instrument whereas the Akai feels more like a computer 😁
Man you are on it Expectaz! Another great video, pretty cool way of working.
It’s more like the MPC and Digitakt like this. You can get really creative
Pure gold 🤍
Thanks a lot!!!
Thanks for this. I wish we could have different pad sensitivity settings for drum & MIDI tracks.
That would make it more human when played 😁
great sound, music wise and prod quality.. you ever do live gigs?
Yes I’ve done a lot in the past, but since Covid not so much anymore but definitely want to get going again! Plenty of material here 😁
This jam is fire Expectaz! How would you deal with eq for each part when using one track though? Are maybe you simply dont! Haha
Most of the parts I record the sounds with the eq already baked in. But for the others you can have 4 effects per part! 8 if you send them to sub groups. So you are as versatile as with audio tracks but with the flexibility of samples.
@@adriansmithmusic Especially the bass consists of 2 sounds in this jam and I eq-ed them both separately
@@Expectaz that's great thanks! I hope Akai releases a proper parametric EQ some time, with an analyzer you can enable or disable to save CPU.
@adriansmithmusic Yeah that would be amazing!
Nice 👍
How do you make round robin pads?
You can assign a sample to every layer and set the program to “cycle”
sounds amazing and i love this aproach for live playing!
Thanks!! Rearranging songs is also easy this way
Stop showing me what force ist capable of, i want to buy A Hapax squarp
Hapax seems really nice. I have an Oxi One here but don’t use it much yet. Force has the benefit that it can sample and has plugins too 😁