Akai Force - Advanced Tip for Chopping Samples! (Akai Force Fridays)

[@squ33dl3]

Once again your video saved me hours of tinkering to figure this out! Thank you!!!

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

Glad it helped!

[@BeauTylerMakesMusic]

Great chopping video, brother. I had literally never noticed the arrow button to isolate the sample sections. Thanks!

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

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[@louisladder]

Thank you for those tutorials sir, legend! Always learning something new with you! Anyway i want to suggest you a faster method i just discovered (maybe before the update was not possible, i dont know cause i just got the Force a week ago), when you go in the ENV:AMP in the TRACK EDIT of your drumrack, if you put to the Attack value 1, you will not hear any clip anymore. So this process its obsolete. Also when you convert in a new drum rack with slices, the drum rack will applies automatically value ATTACK 1 to each pads. This will not happen if you use other converts methods.

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

Great suggestion!

[@johnnyparker2128]

Thanks

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

Sure!

[@user-qu4vs6gy5o]

How about enabling zero-snap (Shift + 0-Snap)? It's tougher with stereo samples, since there are two zero-crossings, but it helps. Thanks for the helpful videos. 1 year with the Force, and still lots to learn.

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

Huh...I'll have to check that out. I found what I demonstrated here because I ideally just want a little smoothness to samples. Esp at the end

[@user-qu4vs6gy5o]

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy In the Sample Edit screen, the 0-Snap option is revealed when pressing Shift. In the Track Edit screen, the 0-Snap option is in the Settings menu (Gear icon in the upper-right). It's Off by default, but enabling it in one screen keeps it enabled across all screens.

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

That's cool. Good for sounds that you don't need a fade for.

[@glennmuller8765]

Some gear have a zero-crossing slice/cut feature. By looking up the force manual I found this on page 156: Use the Zero Snap selector to enable or disable the Zero Snap feature, which forces start points, end points, and loop points to occur only at the waveform’s “zero-crossings.” This can help to avoid clicks and glitches when playing a sample. This is the same as the 0 Snap button in Sample Edit Mode. Is that feature not implemented or badly implemented? Just curious as I am interested in buying one.

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

You know...it's more of a point that Akai makes this buried in a manual or menus. Like why not just make this standard??? Why would you NOT want zero point?? Yes...please make my samples click.

[@glennmuller8765]

So it is implemented but you need to menu dive. But if you once enable it, is it for the whole project or just the sample you are editing? Or is there a global setting for this? Thanks for the reply, I really like your channel. 👍

[@jhsports]

Your editing is so great

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

Thank you

[@jhsports]

No problem

[@christianthompson1473]

Great stuff. Still no hair styling tips though. 🤔

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

😜😜😜🍟🍟🍟

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

You just sleep on it, wake up and adjust the bed head - done.

[@christianthompson1473]

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy no need to update the force for hair mode !

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

@@christianthompson1473 lol

[@tylerk.rauman988]

Have you tried automating slices with an LFO in the Env section of Macros mode yet?

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

What do you mean by that? I'm not understanding how that would help

[@tylerk.rauman988]

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy Oh I didn't mean it as advice for helping with what you were working on here, just as an odd experiment I suggest trying; It is a very weird feature of the env follower I've been playing around with to add some chaos and variability to otherwise simple clips.

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

👌

[@gruponemesis]

you are the champ bro....am enjoying the force very much with your teachings. i spent a whole day spinning wheels the first day it got here and was pisssssseddddd🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭🎶😭

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

Glad it's helping!

[@arcadeuk]

It seems like it would be no effort fort Akai to add an auto fade in/out option to sample slices...... so Akai......

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

Seriously

[@Mikerty391]

That’s what i’m saying. if you already have the start and end mapped out, not too hard to automate it.

[@desertmicro]

What about pops and clicks in the middle of a sample can we do a Crossfade over them?

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

You're prob best just editing that in another DAW then import

[@desertmicro]

How about Process/Delete and zero snap so it's edited on the zero crossing?

[@jhsports]

Do more reactions with Phx 😂 they funny

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

Maybe!

[@jhsports]

Ok 👍

[@jeremyfrey5589]

I've watched many of your videos but not once seeing can you go over 1/4 Loop measure I would like to be able to at least go up to 32. Only 4 is not a song. I only want to be able to do this in MIDI sequencing mode where you have 16 tracks otherwise this machine is useless to me please let me know???????

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

32 beats or 32 measures?

[@maxloomis1712]

Someone give me a reason to keep my force. Compared to my mpc its sounds like crap and very slow work flow. So why should I keep it if I have an mpc live

[@ashenpall]

Don’t lol. If you don’t need hype synth, and don’t like clip based workflow, I don’t see any advantage over the Mpc live

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

I hate the mpc workflow, as Ableton is my main DAW. So the force is the only standalone that works in that workflow

[@ashenpall]

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy that too, I actually switched back to Push 2 because I was still doing most of my sound design in Ableton. But if you don’t use Ableton, don’t need Hype Synth, and don’t like a clip based workflow, then the force isn’t worth keeping

[@maxloomis1712]

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy giving it one more shot. Akai ripped off korg gadget it's The look and workdflow are almost identical!

[@maxloomis1712]

@@ashenpall KEEPING IT! And subscribing to your Chanel. Keep posting force videos your doing 👍

[@ashenpall]

Alternatively, spend a significant amount of time finding the zero crossing and pulling your hair out

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

Omg...yes, that way sucks. That's actually how I found this...I was like, there's GOT to be a way to fade the edges

[@jhsports]

First

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

Haha...🎉🎉