Music Production and Performance in one place

The Akai Force, is also designed for performance DJing, and is the perfect partner for music production, live gaming, sampling, and control without the need for a computer. In no time at all you can create your own beats, record a guitar riff via the instrument input, record it with the Looper and add effects. You don't play guitar? Four virtual instruments and 16 GB of sampling and recording material are just waiting to be arranged and fired using sequencers, launch pads and controllers. In MPC style, you can edit clips and tracks, create MIDI tracks for internal and external instruments, or record CV tracks to a modular system via four assignable outputs.

Workflow Optimised Operation

The central control element of the Force is the full-color 7" multi-touch display, where most of the menu work is done, samples are edited, loops cut and parameters edited. Among them are eight sensitive real-time encoders, each with its own OLED display to always have the best overview of the settings used. At the bottom of the Force, the 8x8 (64) button matrix stands out, allowing Ableton to assign, play and recombine Live Clips. By the way, this workstation sees itself as a "hardware link" to Ableton that can be operated in parallel on a laptop. The cool crossfader blends scenes or individual values, very effective!

Sounds, Samples, Synthesizer

Akai's Force is shipped with over 10GB of sample material. The basic library contains 248 kits, 16 demo projects, more than 2500 loops and 500 patterns.

The pre-produced material is supplemented by four virtual instruments, each with numerous presets:

• Hype (macro-based synth with wavetable, FM, subtractive, sampling)

• Tubesynth (typical polysynth sounds)

• Bassline (classic mono synths)

• Electric (E-Pianos in different versions)