Akai Force: Pad Scene and Parameters

[@Viennatom.]

Many thanks for your explanations! 👌🏼

[@Jean-Mi_Paradis]

Joe, you have to know that all your efforts digging into the Force where you find “undocumented features” helps us tremendously. Up to this day, I still do believe that this is an underrated device. I love mine, and with all of your discoveries, I like it even more day after day. Thank you so much for such great content and this quality KZbin channel. All the best!

[@joefilbrun]

Thanks much Jean-Mi! I agree. Unless you’ve owned a Force, you probably just have no idea all the things you can do with it. I’m not sure it really fully comes across in Akai’s marketing.

[@PaulvanEgmond]

Bedankt

[@ZacharyWolf-g9m]

Thanks Joe, I am learning the Akai Force and you are one of my Jedi Masters. lol.

[@dreamstaticsounds]

Oh wow. Mute in pad parameter would be super useful. Thanks for sharing this, Joe!

[@Thomas_Swift]

One of the Iconic machines Akai has made since the Akai MPC 3000

[@joefilbrun]

Hey djtomswift808 - totally agree! I personally think it’s the best thing they’ve ever made. In fairness though, I never owned an MPC 3000.

[@IsaiahGrande]

Love your Force videos!

[@spikemoss]

Thanks, great tips and I love your demo style, clear and consistent and followable

[@joefilbrun]

Hey @spikemoss, thanks for watching and the compliment!

[@CharlesLouisRosario]

Thanks for that!

[@desertmicro]

That was great as always Joe. Thanks 🎧

[@user82938]

There's no end to the little things to learn on the Force.

[@joefilbrun]

I think you’re right. I still find little things that surprise me even after having one for several years.

[@Josuryb]

Good job man really useful trick to spice loops

[@vertigev]

Sweet! Can't wait to watch this later today

[@b.stro.beatzdjplanb7599]

Great video. Thanks

[@joefilbrun]

Hey B.Stro.Beatz DJ Plan B - thanks for watching - glad you liked it!

[@Noise-Conductor]

These are great features that makes the Force so powerful. FYI I think you can use MIDI learn to add parameters, which makes it less tedious. Currently you & Crates Motel (Conan) are the best for deeper tips on Force. Thanks!

[@joefilbrun]

Hey Poetic Noise - yep, the learn feature should work there too. Sometimes I just find it easier to use the menus (and sometimes not). I wasn’t aware of Crates Motel but that’s a cool channel. He seems to be coming at the MPC from a different perspective and background than mine, so I’ll be checking out more of his videos myself!

[@jerzboybeats]

Wow this tutorial is awesome.

[@joefilbrun]

Thanks for watching, and glad you liked it!

[@falazarte]

This is super useful!! Thanks so much.

[@joefilbrun]

Hey @falazarte, glad it was helpful and thanks for watching!

[@lmcmulle]

Great one, mate

[@joefilbrun]

Thanks Leigh!

[@zoolhert3535]

Another brilliant video 😎

[@joefilbrun]

Thanks zool hert!

[@nicks.8003]

You can also rename the macro when it has multiple parameters mapped to a single knob. Just click the keyboard icon to the right of where it says macro in the edit macro page.

[@joefilbrun]

Great tip Nick! I personally haven’t found much reason to use macros in these modes. They’re awesome in the project and track modes though. For Pad Scene/Parameter ,there may be some macro that makes sense but just haven’t thought of it yet. :)

[@philippebackprotips]

DrumFX as part scene, great idea. Need also one for sample layer 1 level, then bitcrusher 12 bit, softclipper and boom, we get a hard hitter monster!

[@joefilbrun]

Great ideas! I’m going to try exactly those in the scene!

[@philippebackprotips]

@Joe Filbrun Hi pass filter w a resonance in low frequencies for even more wild things. Tried it today pretty successfully.

[@toniterracciano1538]

Thench yu❤

[@joefilbrun]

You’re welcome!

[@icupiii]

Hey Joe, I love your videos. On my Force, I often hit the 8 plugins limit. I struggle with resampling my plugins to a keygroup or audiotrack, especially with long releases. Could you please do a video on how to resample/bounce like a joe… eh… like a pro. Or do you happen to have covered the topic and I was not able to find it yet?

[@joefilbrun]

Hey Cupiii - I haven’t made a video about that. Although that would probably be a good one. I see this question come up pretty often on forums and Facebook. I’ll put it on my idea list!

[@desertmicro]

hey Joe I'm wondering if that toggle mute works better in your eyes than the mute buttons below on the track selectors which I think kind of slur in and out and aren't very effective at muting or clean muting if you know what I mean.

[@jespee2326]

How can we meet up and work on some tracks ?

[@vertigev]

Great content as always. I've never used these but I will now! It's much simpler than I assumed 😂 Ps: I think your left and right channels might be reversed.

[@Noise-Conductor]

I notice that too. I had to check my headphones. It didn't take away from the demo so w/e.

[@joefilbrun]

Thanks vertigev! Haha, yeah good catch. I forgot to check the channels when I hooked it back up. I did notice when I was editing but figured it wasn’t worth re-recording.

[@vertigev]

Definitely not worth re-recording, I only mentioned it for the next video 😊

[@bobthomas6170]

when i program a mute cc to the pad grid and i want that to toggle it doesnt toggle. i have to hold the pad to mute. thats very annoying.

[@findbradford]

this is the first video on pads but i wish someone would explain the pads in every mode how do i know where notes like middle C is ? i use it with my midi but the layout of pads for notes octaves sharps i see videos with with people using modes other than the record to make tracks i don't understand why the heck no one explains the pads?

[@joefilbrun]

Hey B Bradford - thanks for the video idea. It’s kind of hard for me to gauge what people already know and don’t know. So your feedback helps!

[@gctechs]

Akai should fix the toggle bug.

[@joefilbrun]

Yep. Not sure if they’re aware of it. I’ll report it.