How to build a full song within 1 drum track on the Akai Force // With Project File

[@Expectaz]

Support me so I can make more videos, by buying the project file here: impulsationsounds.gumroad.com/l/akaiforce-struggles

[@jerzboybeats]

Man awesome video. So much possibilities with the Akai Force

[@Expectaz]

Thanks for watching! I love to work like this sometimes

[@L0K3E]

very cool!

[@Expectaz]

Thanks!!

[@dmitryleeo]

Sounddesign so Pro, love it!

[@Expectaz]

Thanks Dmitry!

[@FadRaxMuryMoad]

No way! I’ve had the force for years and this is going to completely change my workflow

[@Expectaz]

@@FadRaxMuryMoad It also did for me!! Am constantly thinking of new ways to use it. For live sets this is amazing. Have lots of fun!

[@danieklerr]

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.

[@Expectaz]

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

[@danieklerr]

@@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.

[@mattpocock8393]

Man you are on it Expectaz! Another great video, pretty cool way of working.

[@Expectaz]

It’s more like the MPC and Digitakt like this. You can get really creative

[@HansuMyura]

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.

[@Expectaz]

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

[@matheuscamara84]

sounds amazing and i love this aproach for live playing!

[@Expectaz]

Thanks!! Rearranging songs is also easy this way

[@LuctaeMusic]

Looks like a great machine man! It seems u know your way around it too. Like the oldksool trance vibes with the techno grooves.

[@Expectaz]

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 😁

[@Harlem-Instrumental]

Thanks for this. I wish we could have different pad sensitivity settings for drum & MIDI tracks.

[@Expectaz]

That would make it more human when played 😁

[@Pauluz_The_Web_Gnome]

Great job man, I hope you are going to do a lot of new videos! My Force was gathering dust so yeah! Thanks!

[@Expectaz]

Yeah there are a lot more coming! Don’t let your Force gather dust 😁

[@mahajanah]

Pure gold 🤍

[@Expectaz]

Thanks a lot!!!

[@stenlyspa1325]

wow man, this is sooo cool!!!

[@Expectaz]

Thanks a lot! It’s indeed a really great technique for creating a lot of variation quickly. Similar to the MPC workflow

[@vertigev]

This is really cool but man, I wish you didn't have to hold the mute button to toggle mutes on pads. Could really use that hand for something else like unmuting other tracks or using macros.

[@Expectaz]

Totally true! The MPC does it, so the Force should also be able to do it. Haven't found a way using shift or something unfortunately

[@DJCJ999]

Nice 👍 How do you make round robin pads?

[@Expectaz]

You can assign a sample to every layer and set the program to “cycle”

[@adriansmithmusic]

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

[@Expectaz]

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.

[@Expectaz]

@@adriansmithmusic Especially the bass consists of 2 sounds in this jam and I eq-ed them both separately

[@adriansmithmusic]

@@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.

[@Expectaz]

@adriansmithmusic Yeah that would be amazing!

[@EnochLight]

Hey brother - love your videos as always - but you need to insert some ducking compression for your narration so the background music gets ducked while you narrate. It’s very *VERY* difficult to hear you sometimes.

[@Expectaz]

Thanks!! Heard that from more people so definitely need to start looking into that 😁

[@gertumlauf5471]

Stop showing me what force ist capable of, i want to buy A Hapax squarp

[@Expectaz]

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 😁