Glad you like my blending of styles. I always try to integrate some house, psy, progressive and tech house elements into my techno sets to spice things up. Why should you always stay within the boundaries of a specific genre? So far I’m using the Roland mx-1 to bring everything together. But next year I will get a new studio and will use the Tascam model 12 as my main mixer.

@wolfgang_grows Wouldn't the tascam 12 limit you to only 6 devices in stereo? Are you planning on using patch cables?

@@lwpweb Thanks for your comment. I didn’t want the video to end up being too long. This is why I only focused on the main elements and didn’t include atmospheric pads, sound fx and percussions in the video. If you’re interested in how I made them and where I placed them, you can download the project file.

@@NoPhonesOnTheFloor Thanks for your encouraging words and for purchasing the project file. I hope it will be beneficial to you.

@@ryefieldsociety7325 Glad you like my video. My Force surface started to get sticky after about three years. However, maybe they used different types of coatings in different production cycles and you’ll be fine. Damn! I wanted to address the missing graphic eq, but then forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me.

@@goodlife303 Ja, gibt es auf meiner Gumroad-Seite. Es ist im Projekt 10-Download.

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@@hut48 Glad you like it. In the second part of this video you will hear more of the main melody. Stay tuned!

Have you tried the beta 3.0? I’m still on 2.15 because I actually love the UI once I got used to it. But the 3.0 is similar to the force arranger view. I have a MPC x se and the thing I love is inputs and outputs. It’s crazy how much I can connect in and out - ie hooking up guitar pedals and routing the bass and kick as mono. I’ve got a microcosm, pog, superego plus, uad compressor N delverb, muff, etc and route different things to different pedals. So much fun. The MPC plugins are so good, and you can get native instruments expansion packs integrated in MPC with kit maker or even Etsy are selling the packs for thirty bucks for 100s of them. While MPC is a terrible midi slave, it’s a great master. While Ive got a love affair with elektron and Roland - MPC can do it all. Especially if you have a Tascam model 12 and then everything opens up. And record on the mixer and finish it off in a daw. Maybe try the 3.0 before you sell it and just play with it. The effects are great like Delay Pro, flavor pro, and half time etc, so many good ones. Honestly although not perfect, but the competition has nothing on it. Get a ssd and start designing an organization method- and create your own programs and design your own synths/sounds in favorites. Subfactory is also one of my faves as is fabric xl. Even after years - I still uncover so many different things. Hooking up an iPad is also fun and using Zenbeats, koala, GarageBand etc to sample and make into key groups is a cinch. The stem separation is only $10 but native instruments is selling it for $50 so it’s not a huge money grab. Grab some vinyl and sample and have fun with it or create your own music from scratch. Or not. But if you spend some time relaxing into it I betcha you won’t regret it. Enjoy the journey not the destination

Translation: Akai took something everyone loved, and made it utter trash, and now are seriously confused about their product line/firmware/basically everything except releasing more crappy plugins that aren't vst or VST3 or CLAP that would work with all my other plugins, which of course are all superior to plugins I can only use on a "constantly-needing-to-be-authorized" walled garden plugin shitcosystem.

@@hardtakeoff Sell it & keep it moving. BYE!

I just got my Akai Force this weekend and already I have managed to make athe worst techno song in history lol . My Force only has stock sound's . Can I asak if you think it's worth linking my Force to a Splice account to get some better sound's ?

@@Expectaz Thanx! I enjoy your Force vids, too.

Fun Rambo track! 😊 Now you are committed “by the law of 80’s Action Movie balance”, to make a fun Arnold track! 😂 Watch an Arnie movie, maybe Commando, (closing credits 80’s song could be remixed into a fun one), or even watch Terminator 1 and remix the dark soundtrack into a heavy techno track, or maybe Predator and its soundtrack being remixed into a slower glitch/granular jungle March song to pick up the spirits of the soldiers etc, lol. 😂😊

@ Thanks for all the ideas and inspiration. That‘s a fun project for next year.

@@eliaszerano3510 If you look through the comments, you can see that another person didn’t have the problems I experienced with styleflip. Quality obviously varies. If you live in the US, I’d probably go with MPCstuff.

@@wolfgang_grows germany here as well :)

@@eliaszerano3510 Nope, they still have the same feel and resistance as on the first day.

@@wolfgang_grows awesome! The encoders of my NI Maschine Studio was broken after less than 3 years :) to much chopping /

@@eliaszerano3510 Yes, I did. But I only used a cloth with a bit of water to wipe off the dust. The skin sticks to the surface really well and I think it would do so without cleaning.

@@eightsprites I have the korg minilogue and the knobs have also become really sticky over the years. So, I agree that it’s a common problem. The question is why do companies still use these materials?

That's why I bought two of them.. just like cdjs mixing project with other project. Also the plugins work on 3 different units, so it's convenient moneywise

@@kdcr23 Then there seem to be variations in terms of accuracy of the skin. There was always left over material, no matter where I started, sooner or later I always ran into the same problems. I even had to use a scalpel to cut the skin that is applied on the air vents at the side of the Force because they were simply too long.

@wolfgang_grows it seems like the way you applied it might have stretched it? Did you complain with styleflip?

@ Not yet. Maybe I should. When the skin came, the thin stripes that go between the pads were already vaulted and stood up in the air before I even tried to remove the skin from the packaging. Plus, when I just put the overlay on the Force without stretching it, you could already see that the skin was too long.

@@acidicloop Same here. Started with NI Maschine back in 2010, but the workflow never really clicked with my way of creating music. The Force feels just natural to me.

Check out my Force demo on how to use the clip matrix to emulate Ableton. Maybe it can be useful: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5_Oq6WqZZZ9kJYsi=mT9yZMGX4H2dlvOT Here a little from the description: "The second video is me roughly showing how my "Clip-Bank method" works to create a new song with just copying & pasting the clips in the Clip-Bank, which is all the clips above the blank row of clips on scene 8 using the Inset & Capture feature. I start by putting them on scene 11 (the 2nd 1 represents seq#1) to keep some kind of order to the song. If I make more than 11 clips in the the Clip-Bank I would start the song on Scene 21. I put a blank row of clips at the end of the song to signal that the song is over & if I want to make a new version of the song I would start any where below it. Remember there's 999 Scenes/Clips."