Getting Started - Akai Professional FORCE Guide D'utilisation Rapide

Getting Started

This section describes how to do basic tasks using your Force.
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When you first power on your Force, you can select a demo project to help get you started, select Empty
Project at the bottom of the screen to load a blank template, or select User Template to load a saved
custom template.
For this tutorial, tap the Deep House - Colors Demo project to load it.
After loading the demo, Force will automatically open Matrix Mode. This display mode gives you an
overview of your project and mirrors the 8x8 layout of the clip launch pads. Use the cursor buttons to
move the current view of the matrix by one row or column at a time.
Launching Clips
Each column in Matrix Mode represents a track. Tracks can be used to hold audio samples, drum kits,
instrument plugins and more. In the Deep House – Colors project, you will see tracks labeled Kick Loop,
Top Loop, Fill and more on the display.
To create a new track, tap the + icon at the top of the display, or press and hold an empty Track Selector
button. You may need to scroll the Matrix to the right using the cursors to show an empty track.
Each track is made up of clips, which are short sequences of audio or MIDI. Only one clip in a track can play
at a time. Let's try playing with a few clips to see how they work.
1. Press the Launch button to make sure the clip launch pads are in Launch Mode. In this pad mode,
each pad represents a single clip in a track. The lighted pads represent the clips shown on the display,
and the dim pads are empty clips.
2. Tap the first clip in Track 8 – Drum Kit to begin playing it. The clip launch pad will slowly blink green
to indicate it is active, and the clip on the display will show the position of the playhead in the clip.
3. While in Launch mode, press the clip launch pad below the pad that is currently playing. The second
clip will start playing after the next bar.
4. Clips will continue to play until another clip in the same track is launched, until playback is stopped or
until the clip is stopped while playback continues.
To stop a clip, first press the Clip Stop button to assign the Track Assign buttons to stop mode.
Then, press the Track Assign button for the track with the clip playing. You can also press the Stop
All Clips button to stop clips in all tracks.
5. To create a new clip, enter Matrix view on the display and double-tap an empty clip slot in a track.
New clips are always created at the default length, which can be set by holding Shift and pressing the
second Track Assign button.
Alternatively, you can create an empty clip using the clip launch pads. First, press the Launch button
to enter Launch mode. Press and hold the Select button, then double-tap an empty pad.
In addition to launching clips in a track, you can launch multiple clips across tracks in the same row. Each
row of clips is called a scene, and these can be used to arrange different parts of a song.
1. Press the top-most Scene Launch button to launch the first row of clips, and then continue launching
other scenes in order.
2. While one scene is playing, try launching clips from other rows to experiment with different variations.
3. To create a new scene, press and hold the Edit button, then press a Scene Launch button.
You can also assign tracks to Force's crossfader. This allows you to seamlessly transition between clips
from multiple tracks.
1. To assign a track to a crossfader side, press and hold the Assign A/B buttons and press a Track
Assign.
2. To clear crossfader assignments, hold Shift and press the Assign A or Assign B button.
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