Akai Force Forum: Everything relating to the Akai Force, the new 64 pad, clip-based standalone sampler/groovebox from Akai. While not an MPC, it shares many similar software features to the MPC X/MPC Live including the same underlying code-base.
By B-Wise Wed May 17, 2023 10:29 pm
This guy "The Creates Hotel" know his stuff. This is how you make a tutorial! Very detailed but not boring & really informative advice from a mixing/mastering engineer with 30 years under his belt.

He uses the MPC but tips still work for Force. So enjoy!

From the video description:
1,365 views May 2, 2023 Mixing tips and tricks
So which compressors do we have at our disposal in the standalone MPCs?
In this video, I go through each compressor as well as offer some tips and tricks on how and when to use them. Keep it locked for an old-school vocal stacking trick at the end.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:23 A compressor breakdown on the MPC
00:59 The Compressors
01:27 Why use a compressor?
02:23 The Air Channel Strip
07:20 The Air Compressor
15:28 The Bus Compressor
20:26 The Opto Compressor
23:44 The VCA Compressor
27:32 The Vintage Compressor
31:10 Stacked Compression for Vocals
36:32 Outro

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By Ultros Thu May 18, 2023 1:46 am
Next thing is brauerizing using the mpc sub-busses. place 4 compressors and various eq's on 4 sub-busses and route all programs to them. place limiter with init patch on mainbus. Simple and it works. Lots of diagrams on google how to set it up but its generally like FET, Tube, Opto, VCA. Add filtering and eqing after the compressors to isolate frequency.