Dull to Dynamic: Energize Your Repetitive Synth Clips/loops

Joe Filburn's video description: 1,225 views Apr 3, 2023 Akai Force Tutorials
The Akai Force is a powerful and expressive standalone music production system that's perfect for energizing repetitive synth loops. In this video, we'll show you how to create dynamic synth clips with the Akai Force that will turn your static clips into lively, expressive synth music!

Whether you're a musician just starting out or an experienced synth player, this video is a great way to add some life to your boring synth loops. With dynamic synth clips on the Akai Force, you'll be able to create exciting synth music that will take your sound to new heights!

This technique can make your synth loops dynamic, so that they play back a little differently on each repetition.

This made me realise I should use the macros much more often. Thanks.

64hz wrote:This made me realise I should use the macros much more often. Thanks.

That's 1 of the features that makes the Force more powerful than the MPC & don't forget there's 16 crossfaders & each has a separate A & B side!

Honestly, I enjoy Joe's videos, but this one sort of misses the mark for its intention. If his intent was just to show you how to use the Envelope Follower to automate parameters, then that's fine. But everything he is doing here - to "energize your repetitive synth clips/loops" - could just be recorded as parameter automation to show just as much interesting "variation" in any particular Clip/Sequence. We've been doing this in electronic music since the invention of MIDI, and prior to that using CV automation. Or am I missing something?

EnochLight wrote:Honestly, I enjoy Joe's videos, but this one sort of misses the mark for its intention. If his intent was just to show you how to use the Envelope Follower to automate parameters, then that's fine. But everything he is doing here - to "energize your repetitive synth clips/loops" - could just be recorded as parameter automation to show just as much interesting "variation" in any particular Clip/Sequence. We've been doing this in electronic music since the invention of MIDI, and prior to that using CV automation. Or am I missing something?

I think it was mainly to show off the randomization potential of the Envelope Follower LFO's since it's a feature many users may not think to use for stuff like this - if they even know it exist at all.