People dont understand that features might be dropped from a beta because of unexpected issues with bugs. And will just end up with creating more dissapointment than joy. Even if Akai delivered all but one feature, someone would complain vocally that the dropped feature was the most important thing in the world, and that they are boycotting everything from Akai from now on. hehe
If the rumors are true, it seems that they are working on a huge update!
i always wondered how much the underlying hw-platform is capable of (display, audio interface at last withe the Live, all the that editing during running and so on)
Part1. : I used along the years many sequencers, software and hardware, just like most of u I think. Finally I arrived at Force, which I must say it has a lot of what I dreamt in the past with the Roland MC series and later with the MV8800ā¦
Part 2. : Even though Force gives me what I thought I need, the old Octatrack it shows me that with it I can do things faster, and the crazy thing (for me at least), strangely, what I do with it fits better with the rest ā¦(I mean samples with the outboard gear parts).
Pard3.: Ok, my point is that I set up everything (hardware synths, mixers, pedalsā¦) around the Force, just to find out Octatrack does it better and faster.
So my question is: What ideas do u have about integrating the two in a nice together set-up?
yes Iād love an input mode like this to be added to the note grid. Along with something simple like making a midi keypress act the same as a pad press for the āpad selects all eventsā etc.
though should note, Iām speaking from MPC Live perspective here - assuming thereās common ground between the Akai devices here
Yes, thereās a flatten button that resamples the current pad to a new sample and automatically cleans the pad settings and effects. You can add a tail too. Quite handy.
If you need to resample multiple pads at a time you use the sampler instead.
An Ableton push on the desk is the perfect size, but for when youāre on the move something between the size of the polyend tracker and A launchpad mk3 would be ideal, you wouldnāt be able to flex as much as on an regular Force I know ā¦ but for sketching/ with the forceās features you could take it Farā¦
the mpc live /push Frankenstein vibe is just something Iām not feeling, even if they make a mk2 at regular size I think they could do a lot better than that, imho it just looks like an MPC Live user and a force user ran into each other when they werenāt looking where they were goingā¦ I think Akai the makers of the push 1 and the MPX 16 can do better
Not yet, no, but itās rumoured to be coming in a future update. There are at least two ways to work around. There is a converter that will turn MIDI files into .mpcpattern files but Iāve not tried that. If you have Ableton then you can import an Ableton project including MIDI (this also works with Ableton format projects exported from Korg Gadget).