AKAI Force

I’m on 326. I renamed some samples, tried to save & it crashed. Luckily I just save it before I renamed & saved. Stability my ass!

Edited: After restarting my work/renaming was saved. Still not cool to crash the day of the update, especially for a stability & performance tweak update.

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No, big or not. This is about focus and attention. About incorporating it as a business strategy. It’s actually pretty easy to open up as a company and communicate in a transparent way. It’s a deliberate choice.

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I believe a strongly worded, yet terse email to Akai customer service is in order.

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And clearly a letter to your local congressman/woman or state representative.

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Make Akai Great Again.

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@CCMP don’t let Jack Smith hear you say that! That dude don’t play. :pleading_face:

Imagine its a car and VW said, we fixed something, dont worry… some people rely their business ontop of this thing…

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Looked a tad violent even if only clickbait. Why is everything a zero-sum.

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Because most can’t afford both or all the things they want. In a way, limited cash & time is natures way of keeping GAS in check :thinking:

Force 3.2.6 Release Notes.

Stability and performance enhancements.

Known issues for this release:

The following issues have been confirmed by Akai Professional to be present in this and previous versions of Force firmware. We are actively working on a resolution to these issues.

• Some tempo-synced effects can drift off tempo following tempo change or Ableton Link sync.

• In some cases, MIDI note-off messages can be sent to the wrong MIDI channel when received from multiple sources simultaneously.

https://cdn.inmusicbrands.com/akai/F…leaseNotes.pdf

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Despite the clickbaity graphic, the Pink Buddha vid linked here provides a very balanced and generally insightful discussion about the strengths/weaknessess of the two different instruments and what their future capabilities might be.

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Good points made in the videos above. One thing that I didn’t hear mentioned is the Arrangement Mode or Force. It does a nice job. It’s got about 80% of what is needed prior to a mastering session.

Arranger is the reason I’m selling MPC One in favor of Force. But so far there were nobody interested in my barely used MPC One :frowning:

Because of the brand new MPC One+ (and the 80+ MPC Ones selling on reverb right now). But if you sell it at a good price, people will buy it.

For me this isn’t even about the arrangement view (which exists in MPC Software but not Standalone). It’s about all the other stuff AKAI is not porting to MPC, like submix/return/master track automations, mixer view, macros, global MIDI learn, snapshots, midi clips …

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Don’t sell the One. Make a bedside stand, or get a little table on the patio and separate from your main station. Let it sit unused when you do t feel the vibe. Bang out a quick beat when you do.

Make a toilet side stand, even better.

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Great idea, but it still will lack the Arranger which is why the guy is selling it. Tho the MPC kinda do have the Arranger in it’s own way. But I had an MPC & hate even making simple beats on that thing because I hate the sequencer, so I wouldn’t stop someone from buy the Force over the MPC, but the arranger wouldn’t be my top reason to do so.

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I’m not advocating not getting the Force. Get the Force. The Force is a pretty ok device.

I’m saying keep the One. Next to the toilet.

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I got what you was saying. But then you’ll still then have to always transfer the MPC beats to the Force & the seq data isn’t compatible. The OP may not mind that, butt after using the Force I’d rather buy 2 & put one next to toilet… I just realized what wrote & I’m current LMAO :toilet::poop::rofl:

is there something good about the MPC sequencer? I had a live 1 for a while and found it so awkward to make a simple beat that I sold it, not so with Maschine, Push 2, Force, all of which have a flow I find very logical