Akai Force Forum: Everything relating to the Akai Force, the iconic 64 pad, clip-based standalone sampler/groovebox from Akai.
By erotic_taxidermy Wed Jul 19, 2023 1:20 pm
Hi!
I received Force 2 days ago and one thing that absolutely kills my vibe while using the Force is the time I have to wait for contextual menu to appear after I hold "KNOBS" button. Is there any better way to access this menu or change the time I have to wait till the menu pops up?
By B-Wise Wed Jul 19, 2023 2:23 pm
erotic_taxidermy wrote:Hi!
I received Force 2 days ago and one thing that absolutely kills my vibe while using the Force is the time I have to wait for contextual menu to appear after I hold "KNOBS" button. Is there any better way to access this menu or change the time I have to wait till the menu pops up?

I never had that problem. How much time are waiting for?
By erotic_taxidermy Wed Jul 19, 2023 2:38 pm
Half of second too long. It's not well designed UX.
I think that there should be another shortcut to access this menu instead of waiting.

B-Wise wrote:
erotic_taxidermy wrote:Hi!
I received Force 2 days ago and one thing that absolutely kills my vibe while using the Force is the time I have to wait for contextual menu to appear after I hold "KNOBS" button. Is there any better way to access this menu or change the time I have to wait till the menu pops up?

I never had that problem. How much time are waiting for?
By HouseWithoutMouse Wed Jul 19, 2023 4:42 pm
I can guarantee that you will encounter a lot more slowdowns.

But yeah, I can't see any reason why it couldn't react and show the menu even immediately. Or why there has to be a menu, why not use one of the dozens of buttons, like KNOBS + tap something, to switch immediately without even seeing a menu. Why things like this don't get fixed - I suspect that the programmers don't use it themselves.
By B-Wise Wed Jul 19, 2023 7:32 pm
HouseWithoutMouse wrote:But yeah, I can't see any reason why it couldn't react and show the menu even immediately. Or why there has to be a menu, why not use one of the dozens of buttons, like KNOBS + tap something, to switch immediately without even seeing a menu. Why things like this don't get fixed - I suspect that the programmers don't use it themselves.

Exactly! That's getting added to feature request list.