Standalone Ableton? Import Projects into Akai Force w VSTs

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[alecliegeois]

A small tip if you didn't know yet. Instead of dragging the audio loops from arranger to clip mode manually there is an easier way. You can choose what part you want to convert by selecting it with the loop button in arranger mode. Then right click the loop bar and select consolidate time to new scene. This will do the same thing and it is much less tedious and faster than dragging and dropping. ;)

[Viennatom.]

Dear Dylan, many thanks for your great explanations and also thanks to the other users who contributed with their useful tips.Best greetings from Vienna 👋🏼

[TheEveljesus]

The secret to using the Force and Ableton is resampling and using drum racks. If you add a resampled track, record your parts, then replace your track with a drum rack to load the loops, you encounter very few problem. It also helps if all your drums have a matching drum kit in the force.

[KaosEngineering]

Cropping samples = Life saving tip. Great video, thanks a bunch

[camblackofficial]

Quick tip. If you split/cut every track at the same points in the timeline in arrangement view you can then copy and paste the entirety of the session to clip view. (Split/cut where you want each scene to start/end). Just copy all audio and paste into the first clip in the first scene and ableton will paste to corresponding scenes/clips. The caveat being all tracks are split/cut at the same point. I have had some headaches when one track was cut/sliced in a different place.

[lindasson]

Bro.. you have a great voice!! Awesome video, and I always thought the Force was interesting, great looking, but intimidating🙏🏾✊🏾💚

[AstrixMusic]

The force really needs the ability to perform follow actions like in Ableton. This would allow you to step into the next set of loops. The only way you can play your loops in a sequenced way is to record your launch actions into the arranger mode. To enter Arrange Mode, press Menu and then tap Arrange. It's best to watch the official Akai videos on how to do it. Funny thing before the arranger there was no way to sequence your loop events. This machine while more refined than when it was released still has a few things that need ironing out.

[parisdontlikeyou]

I know this kind of defeats the purpose of the whole ableton/force thing, but it would've been a lot easier to record each progression directly into the Force. You could set it to record 8 bars, assign each 8bar recording to a pad on a drum track, and call it a day. You'd also gain a lot of control as far as sequencing and effects go.

[christiankennedy]

You know, instead of dragging and dropping the sections of the arrangement into session mode, you can set the loop locators to the sections, right- click the loop bar at the top of the arrange view, and select "consolidate time to new scene."

[INFINITYREALM]

Just the vid I was looking for. Also actually kind of refreshing with the OBS not working and seeing the trees and rain with the green tracks. Thanks

[DrGrooveBeat]

You could set the crossfader up as a macro mix knob for the auto tune to blend in and out when you need assistance.

[camblackofficial]

Watching this again. You may have discovered this but Instead of recording the tracks to audio you can also just copy/duplicate the tracks, freeze and then "Flatten Track" which is quicker.

[lrkx_]

If you connect a controller to the force, create midi tracks, you could play into ableton and vst’s and return the audio to the force via usb interface. Would cut out a couple of manual steps.

[fridmanator]

In Ableton select all clips and activate loop (after crop clips, if you do it before it will loop the entire “song length”)

[fridmanator]

In Ableton a lot of things are possible to do all at once, like dragging all the chopped audio into the session view (all at once, one time)

[YA-sound]

You actually cán select all clips in ableton at the same time and set them to 'loop' in the left bottom corner (there's a 'loop' button in the clip edit menu) when you have all of them selected, setting the one clip you can see in the editor to 'loop' will set all of the selected clips to loop at once. This works for other clip settings as well. (hold CTRL and click clips to make a custom selection or hold shift to select entire rows of clips at once) I have not tried if setting a clip to loop in Ableton will also translate to a Force project but it might just work ^^

@alec liegeois method of consolidating also auto loops the selected parts, but still it might come in handy to know you can change the settings of multiple clips at once if you just select them at the same time. Could be useful for things like warping/timestretching and transposition.

[MusicWizard]

Good video especially for Ableton & Force users! It would be cool to see you mix up DAWs sometime or nix them all together like you have in past videos.

One of the biggest sell points of the Force for me is standalone working. I like the idea of having Force + a few other instruments or hardware to create without an internet connection. I've been considering Akai Force combined with Roland MC707 to make sequencing easier & have more colors to paint with.

[fridmanator]

Is there a reason you choose to record and not to freeze all tracks? It’s essentially the same thing but off line(faster)

[DrGrooveBeat]

I think the best way would be to export the loops dry then recreate/use force fx.

[MichaelBLevi]

It's awesome that you're making videos about using Ableton and the Force together in a meaningful way.
I'm looking forward to more of this kind of content from your channel.👊
Also...is that rainwater on your window? What's that like?...asking for California