Akai Force Fridays - fixed vs. open clip length

[@MichaelBLevi]

This Force Friday is workflow gold. Thanks for being an early adopter and slogging through the details for us.

[@tronlady1]

At last! Somebody who does really good FORCE tutorials 😍

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

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[@synkuk]

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy super helpful thx

[@barbarafamily583]

Thanks much for this video. It solved two issues I was having and nearly turned my force into a frisbee. Much appreciate all your tutorials. I really like the force overall but some days I want to crush it when struggling with some features.

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

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[@MrPerkdaddy]

Thanks! Great video and explanation! We really appreciate these videos! A lot of people are buying the Force now...so we need these videos.......

[@candyflip6345]

Thanks this is great for poly rhythms.

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

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[@markcolwell]

Nice, perfect tutorial

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

Glad you liked it!

[@mewraz]

Great tips for the force and also music making in general!

[@TheAudioDabbler]

Great tutorial. Exactly what I was looking for.

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

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[@theblowupdollsmusic]

Very helpful! Thank you.

[@9000knobs]

Thanks, u look like a cool guy. Thanks for the tips.

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

🤘🤘🙏

[@Nyiamtv]

I couldn't find that menu to set the clip length default, thanks

[@daniyalahmed97]

update your force g

[@Noise-Conductor]

OK to set the default clip length you have to HOLD shift+Length...man I couldn't remember that for like 3 days...Thanks!

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

They really should've put the shift button on the side! Where you could maybe do it with one hand!

[@kilianteichgraber-mittwoch6000]

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy Exactly what I am thinking ALL of the time. Nevertheless, an awesome machine…

[@micahgmiranda]

that shirt is awesome

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

www.threadless.com - they have bomb t-shirts

[@slovenskeludovepesnicky4721]

Hello, how do I make the cut parts of the clip play until the end and not just at the beginning of the next cut? thank you in advance for your answer

[@joelacina386]

Hwy Buddha, love your videos they have helped me learn the force. Thanks for all your hard work. I have a question. How do you select an open clip length?

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

You just don't select fixed length. It records until you hit stop

[@mango4two101]

Even when it's on "Fixed Length Recording Off" it still keeps looping on a fixed length when I am recording a clip. Am I doing something wrong? I'm very frustrated with the learning curve of the Force atm.

[@kilianteichgraber-mittwoch6000]

Thanks for this very short but brief and informative clip. This is a very important topic, indeed. And another, hopefully not too esoteric question: Are you Pisces? 😀

[@pla-music]

Thanks for this video, you've got my sub! I've been considering buying Force for a long time, but one thing stop me: as I heard it's lack of different time signature than 4/4. Now as I see from your video it is actually possible to change measure by setting clip length for example one bar and one 1/4 beat and as a result clip is played back like 5/4 bar. Am I right?

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

Yes

[@tronlady1]

I only realised this last night after weeks of getting to know this thing! I’m into prog rock and cannot imagine writing in 4/4 all the time ouch. I found this workaround last night and wanna make a video on it as nobody else has? I cannot get my head around why akai PROFESSIONAL would make a £1400 device where you cannot change time signature. I wanna do crossover electro prog on it but I feel as if it’s gna be hard to do......

[@jurgenmuller3599]

Hey, sorry for offtopic...also dont know if u already made a video for my question, but...u maybe know how to use the XYFX screen and record what u doin? Im tryin a long time but still didnt figure out. Glad i found your channel helps me a lot. greetings

[@sheepskin11]

1. Set the AUTOMATION of your TRACK to WRITE (search for 'track automation button) in the Force manual. 2. Set the XYFX 'Location' to TRACK 3. Arm the track for record and start recording!

[@sethshows423]

Wanted to know if you knew a way to have an open clip length but have the clip loop on the next down beat, similar to Ableton.

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

Yes...you have to set the clip quantization to quarter note, not measures. Hit shift then the desire button at the bottom.

[@sethshows423]

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy Sweet deal! really appreciate the info. You Rock!

[@sethshows423]

Had another question a little off this topic but related. I was wondering if you had idea how to sync the midi clock of the force to a Boss rc 505.

[@andrewhorton5101]

In case this video is making anyone else feel completely insane because your Force doesn't act like this and you can't replicate these steps - everything in this video is predicated on having your Record Config set to "Rec Button Or Pad" rather than the default setting of "Rec button THEN pad." Maybe this video was made before those parameters were added in an update or something, but I spent a lot of time pulling my hair out trying to figure out why I couldn't replicate these steps.

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

Oh...yeah, good distinction. They changed that step you describe in a later firmware update. So thanks for pointing that out. Wish KZbin allowed you to go back and change older videos for things like this.

[@MrSilkydrew]

Just Mate I wonder If. 1. Can you pattern chain clips from above and below Rows? 2. Would it be Best if you could Pattern chain the Rows using the Luanch buttons. 3. Wonder If you could save all the Rows pattern chained Like a Song and then mess it all up Live then Reset back. Think this is How the Force should be able to Work. Maybe in arranger mode, Right?

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

Pattern chain? Like they go automatically to the next row?

[@MrSilkydrew]

Yeah, To me that's how it should work.

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

Yeah...should be simple. But not a feature right now

[@raggamuffin2349]

can you override the fixed length if you manually start and top the loop? or is it always fixed once thats on

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

You CAN override it! But clicking on the track button at the bottom (when you have it set to turn record enable on and off). I have done that often. Put it on fixed length - like 8 bars - but then manually stop it early, if I want to.

[@christianschroer1999]

I have the missing pedal again when im recording my midi piano with pedaling even with the red effect record button on etc ... Sometimes it´s went ok (pedal was recorded in the arranger and sometimes not). I was learning something in the micro knobs and I forgot press learn again. I started recording my piano clip into the arranger and there I was seeing : learning pedal sustain whatsoever without using the pedal while recording. If im pluging the pedal of of the piano ( roland midi piano and pedal , so no cheap things ) nothing happened. It changed the sustain automatically. Sometimes pressing 1 time the pedal works for recording the whole pedal which is already recorded on the clip. That bugg as a piano player makes me very angry and at that moment I don´t want to record with the force anymore. Waiting for a buggfix ??? I don´t think they are fixing that exact bugg. Is it because my hardware is different form another force because of a mistake ? I know you are not a guy from Akai but If you had the same mistake please help me with you knowledge how you master that bugg. Thanks Christian

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

I wish I knew how to help - that sounds frustrating. And especially sad to say that Akai is pretty bad at customer service.

[@one2waziru]

I’m a musician who works with loops from my own created audiotracks. I bought the force primary to use a a loopplayer. I mean cut my tracks in pieces verse ,chorus and lauch them as I feel while playing guitar and singing so I’m still waiting for some way or another to control it with my feet .(clip lauching,I have a mcmillen 12 step ) I still couldn’t figure out why when I hit another clip ,it doesn’t let the previous one to play till the end . This must be possible just like a looper in serial mode , no ?? With my Ipad and quantiloop It’s possible but limited to four loops .

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

Hmmm....Not quite sure what you're asking about the loops. But I'll guess that you mean that when you hit another clip (and that it doesn't continue), you're doing so vertically. If you want a clip to continue, and loop while you do another one - you'll need to organize horizontally.

[@one2waziru]

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy Hi,No that's not the problem I want the previous loop to play completely to the end before the other one starts,

[@one2waziru]

Hi Pink Budha did you see my aswer to your question ?

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

one2waziru ,Canigo Waziru how long is your clip....? How many measures? You prob have to set the quantization at the bottom. Hit shift and then select the clip quantization length.

[@one2waziru]

Pink Buddha Thanks I’ll try that ! 🎸🔥🦠

[@DespairQuietlyPlease]

Hi how do you set a defsult 4 bars for all clips in all tracks?

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

You set the fixed length and it works for any track

[@dusanminka]

hello, please tell me how to set the advance in the clip

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

I don't know what you mean by "advance?"

[@dusanminka]

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy phrase before the beginning of the bar so that the clip does not start from it, but from the first beat

[@kilianteichgraber-mittwoch6000]

@@dusanminkaDo you mean the pre-count of the metronome? This is set in the metronome menu in the under row.

[@gcoinz]

How do you get split the pads for playing notes on the bottom half and the launch section on the top half?

[@gcoinz]

Like you’re doing 6:50 into the video.

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

You push the launch and note buttons at the same time

[@gcoinz]

Pink Buddha Thanks. Great vids by the way.

[@andreilemieux9525]

is there any way to do launchpad style clip launching? where some clips just loop while others are easily triggered? i know that clips can sync. but can you have various settings for each clip? so you could have a drum track always going. and then switch out clips to make a dubstep track?

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

Sort of.... you can set different clip lengths, and determine if you want them to loop or not. So if you just had some short "one shot" clips, and some that looped, it would end up like Ableton. You just have to have a global launch quantization (i.e. how long it takes to play the clip after you hit it). You can't have some clips with short quantization, and some with longer - like you can with Ableton.

[@andreilemieux9525]

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy thanks man!!! also, can can you please point me to any decent auto sample videos????? i can only find them for MPC live or X i have vengencepacks so i want to be able to take some of the supersaw stabs and use them across a keyboard so to speak. or across the force's pads. while using the scales/chords etc. thanks for the tip!

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

I could prob make a video about that.

[@andreilemieux9525]

@@PinkBuddhaAcademy im for it!!!! iv been learning so many hidden gem about the akai force since i got it in the mail.. really the most underrated piece of gear in recent years. while there was a buzz among akai fans and users. i feel like it didn't get the attention it deserves :D its really a beast of a groove box. i just wish they made a better synth plugin that allows you to make your own sounds from the ground up. tube synth is close. but doesn't do FM hype is fun but is limited in its modulation and INT settings. either way, its still a monster and is fun to use :) and god damn is it easy to make it sound good.

[@tronlady1]

Omg it must be nice to have no dislikes 🥴

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

Haha...I have dislikes on videos.

[@KingNailerzONeill]

Is there a fix for the akai force if it keeps getting stuck on the start up force screen and not loading the demo screen. Should I send it back or am I doing something wrong.

[@PinkBuddhaAcademy]

🤷‍♂️ sorry....unsure