Akai Force Forum: Everything relating to the Akai Force, the iconic 64 pad, clip-based standalone sampler/groovebox from Akai.
By Taloan Mon Mar 16, 2020 5:22 pm
Hi folks, i'm, on force since a week and very happy :)
My question: I have lot of tons of VSTs used in ableton until now.

Is it a good idea and deal to buy MPC software to autosample VSTs?
eg at thomann they have MPC for 79 EUR with 5 MPC-Expansions :

Hook City Trap n B Edition
Sound Mob
Vegas Festival
Melodic Horizon
Urban Roulette

or for 149 EUR with 10 MPC-Expansions :

The Vault
Hook City Trap n B Edition
Sound Mob
Vegas Festival
Melodic Horizon
Urban Roulette
Elements of UK Dance
Elements of UK House
Elements of Dystopia
Elements of 2 Step and Garage

Is this a good deal or any other ideas?

Thanks! :)
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By MPC-Tutor Mon Mar 16, 2020 5:54 pm
You dont need the MPC Software to autosample, you can do that in the Force.

First fire up Ableton and set up your VST on a MIDI track etc.

Connect your computer to the Force via MIDI and configure your MIDI track in the Force to trigger your computer - your computer is now an 'external instrument'.

In the Autosampler just set the recording inputs to Input 1/2. The Force will now autosample your VST via Ableton (this way you can also sample Ableton's own instruments).

But 79 EUR for the MPC Software is a good deal.
By Taloan Sat Mar 21, 2020 3:48 pm
Thanks for your hints. I'll better keep playing round with the integrated synthies for the beginning :)
Hype makes lot of fun :)

The given advice for instrument auto-sampling worked well!
But first i spent some time to find out that i have to grab the analog output of my soundcard (Roland MX1) for Recordinput1+2 on force.
First I tried to use the USB Audio out from Ableton => AKAI FORCE AUDIO, but on force that is no input, i can select for sampling :(
So I had to goto this way: Ableton > MX1 > analog out > analog in on force > sampling
...which has a big loss of quality in the sounds...