Akai Force

I love to be able to just get right to it and get to the point, but just on some other notes, you also can install a ssd drive inside of it the great ...

Then the cost is a bargain. To be honest, whilst the force is quite a chunky, beast and really it's ideally suited for sitting at a table or a desk, o...

I mean you still are gonna need a computer at least to put the music on Soundcloud. Akai Force is an awesome device, however, all you have is a 7" screen, limited I/O, limited plugins, and still, at some point, he is going to hook it up to the computer. I get the thing with the physical controls, but something like akai force, to me is just a daw, in a box with a touchscreen, that is pretty much a computer screen.

I'm just really disappointed that I took a huge leap and it was just such a cheaply built and unexciting unit. So now for a polyphonic, clip based sequencer with a minimum of eight channels I'm looking at the Akai Force. Maybe.

In the end, the synths didn't help me make music, but the Akai Force and the Digitakt did. If I were to redo my studio from scratch, I would get a Hydrasynth Keys, an Akai Force, a Digitakt/Octatrack, A Neutron and some cool modular stuff to go with it. Oh, and a guitar and a nice microphone. All of these things provide me with something that I can't reasonably get inside my DAW, and help me actually make music, as opposed to make sounds.

Plus I'm already quite fond of the modern MPC line and it obviously has a lot of overlap with those devices. Quite honestly, the Force didn't make a very good first impression for me: the device feels too big on the table, simple things on the MPC were more complicated on the Force, and I couldn't get synth sounds I really liked. With more exploration, the Force started to make more sense, and when I got to the stage where I was setting macros for a live performance, the device really started to shine.