OK, I'm suitably impressed! This is fantastic, thanks for taking the time to demonstrate it... amazing that they each get access to all channels, just incredible!
It can take a little longer to get going but it is very cool. You could record any of the midi passing through the force and put it into a piano roll to. Then send it somewhere else.
@@avrilcadabra hey! with multimidi does the force capture knob changes on the external synths? like if you have the minilogue track recording and turn the filter knob on the physical synth, will it record that cc change on the force? also does it have any sort of midi definitions? like can you save certain cc's for certain devices so you're not always flipping through manuals if you want to program cc automation in the force? thanks!
Sorry for the late reply. I only see the new comments not replies. No it doesn't record cc automation. The mpc's can record cc mapped to mpc parameters but I don't think to themselves or other synths. Hopefully in a future update
Great video, super helpful! You mentioned all the synths are running thru a mixer & then into the Force. Is the Force then connected to another mixer, or are the Force outputs connected directly to your speakers?
Thanks. The Force outs went to a zoom h6. It just suited what I do and making videos. Perhaps the arranger is better for others. I used headphone jack at the front for headphones.
Perfect tutorial.I have the FA06 and other USB gear.I will now purchase the Force.Love the midi capability's.I guess you would still have to convert the midi to audio when done sequencing in the force maybe to an audio track
Thanks. I notice the clock jitter according to my digitakt is within a 1bpm range. I get clock jitter on midi cables also. But just so you know. The force can record about 20 minutes of stereo audio per project. I am happy to send the forces outputs to my zoom h6. You can the record 4 outputs on the force separately. Or you can just record say a bar 4 loop from the FA. Best not to think of the force as an 8 track tascam recorder. Until they add disk streaming you ideally would be using samples or audio tracks playing clips
Nice ... for me at the moment the Retrokits RK006 solveds every usage I need, but its a realy nice (but expensive) way to connect it with the AKAI Force ... especially if you don't own the AKAI Force
I had a few people mention the rk006 looks like a very capable unit. I think a lot of people using akais are not using midi multi when they probably could or should be
Fantastic video. I’m seriously thinking of getting the Force as my standalone DAW. I only have a simple set up consisting of a Roland Jupiter XM and a Roland RD88. So Using the USB hub method I could have the RD88 playing it’s own tones or the XM,s tones or Force’s built in sound engines tones,or play the XM or RD88 from the Force’s pads…….
It is impressive for it's ability to make complex midi routing simple, the only chore is setting up midi tracks that say rd88 in to XM out etc but you can make templates, I find the big force update to be a bit unstable compared to before , they are working on updates though. I would still like an XM and as far as my research went would pair well with the force.
Hi, I know your video was made some time ago, but I have only just come across it!! I have recently bought the Akai Force, I also have: * Akai MPK249 (so I can play the forces sounds more easily) * Roland E4 Voice Tweaker * An Electric guitar * a condenser Mic * a Shure SM58 mic And I am looking to buy an Arturia Minifreak synthasizer when it comes out next week. My question to you is: Could I somehow use the USB hub to connect these instruments/mics up so that I can use in the Akai Forces sequencer/arranger to record everything there? Thanks
Hi Daryl, the way I had it setup here was with a mixer plugged into the force. I had a 10 port powered usb hub plugged into the force also, all synths had usb midi and were plugged into the usb hub, the only sort of issue you will have with this is if you wanted to use forces new guitar amps on the audio inputs it would affect everything. So you would be better of running a pedal cab sim before the mixer. That said the force now supports mixers like the tascam model 12 which might allow more inputs, though I am not sure as I don't have a mixer like that to try.
Thanks for your reply and advice, you have given me plenty to think about now, and also to look into with more depth. So much appreciated, thank you very much.
I'm glad i found this video. Thanks for directing me over here. I have an arturia keyboard and the td-3, but when i input all the settings from the video i still can not use the keyboard or the force pads to play the TD-3. No sound comes from the TD-3. Is there some setup to do on the TD-3? During all of this I have the TD-3 on write pattern mode, and if i click pitch mode i can play the TD-3 on itself with sound, but nothing happens from the FORCE. I can see the arturia lighting up pads on the FORCE, but doesn't seem like the TD-3 wants to do anything.
OMG... I finally got it to work. Factory reset the TD-3 via synthtribe. I don't know what changed, but I can have the FORCE sequence as well as send individual notes from my midi keyboard. Only thing now is that in order to play the keyboard I have to have the midi track selected in the force. Maybe there is a global input setting in which I can be on any track and still have the keyboard play the midi track and thus the TD-3.
Glad you got it working mostly, I recall several times this happening also, it will be the sync mode (midi, usb, sync etc in the td3) also the force does let you set a midi device (in preferences to be global so it can control any track) but they keep changing that menu every firmware. Unfortunately you will have to make a template or project file with your midi tracks set up on the force if you don't want to do it each time. This is the downside of it. With smaller setups things can be a lot simpler just plugging a midi cable between devices.
@@avrilcadabra yes I totally agree. I have 5pin midi DIN wired up to everything and controlled by a motu mtp av unit before I had midi over USB to the force. The one thing that doesn't work now is bpm sync. The Akai Force does not accept midi timecode to change the global bpm of a project even though in the midi settings page it has a checkbox for it. So not sure there. Seems to break bpm sync entirely. My korg kaoss units no longer are receiving midi bpm sync either now. So I still have some more trial and error to do. I'm glad I can play the td3 with a keyboard or the force pads now though. I also got my rd-6 playable from the force though I have to figure out how to create custom drum pads on the force that correspond to the correct midi notes to send to the rd-6 as they are spread out and the notes are not consecutive for the rd-6 instruments.
I know there was some questions here and elsewhere on whether or not accents and slides work. I can say that as of the latest force firmware that accents and slides work perfectly well. I have it set that velocity over 96 triggers an accent and slides can be played just you normally would on a keyboard and has much less tonal falloff this way when compared to playing slides directly on the td3. You can still manage to get the falloff sound though if you want that type of sound.
I think the Midi update for MPC and Force is so powerful both in the studio and live too (When ever next we can do that) I'm using midi tracks and q links to control synths and effects pedals which are either on the floor or too far away to reach.
What q links are you using. The force does not send cc messages right ( I can use digitakt for that if needed ). I am curious what you are controlling on effects pedals to.
@@avrilcadabra I didn't realise Force can't send MIDI CC. MPC Midi Tracks do, so I control parameters on a Zoia and an H9 from the q links. What those parameters are is dependent on the patch, but generally its things like effect depth, feedback and delay times. Like the Digitakt its also great for automation of outgoing CCs. I have considered using CV tracks on those effects pedals too as both have CV (6.3mm) inputs, though not got around to testing it.
That looks really cool. * Since the force is routing the signals, does it not matter which MIDI channel each device is broadcasting on? * If you had more than ten machines to connect then I suppose you could chain USB hubs into USB hubs, right? * What else besides a Force could do this sort of routing?
You could set all the synths to channel 1. It treats each as its own and they each get their own 32 channels ( not that I know of any synth that has more than 16 ). I'm not sure how big of usb hubs you can get. But yeah there is another usb port to plug another hub in. Others have mentioned the retro kits 006 as being able to do something similar
I know this is now over a year old, but in case the original poster sees this, I have a Casio MZ-2000 synth, that in my opinion was way ahead of it's time. Anyway, by using your setup is there a way the MZ-2000 can be a master keyboard controller? I don't think it has USB since it's pretty old but it does have Midi in/out/thru.
Not actually used the breakout midi in the force, it will probably work if not you can buy a 5pin midi to usb converter like the Roland UM one. then you can use any 5pin midi as usb midi device.
Great work my friend. A question, please: for use midi multi, i can connect a usb 2.0 (or 3.0) in one Classic usb Port of Akai Force, or i must use The first usb Port (that use For printer)? Thanks
Hi, i know this is over a year old but it’s such a great tutorial especially for those of us that haven’t even scratched the surface of what the Force is capable of. I was planning on syncing everything through 5 pin MIDI with the Force as the brain until i saw this which then threw a spanner in the works 😂 I ordered the usb hub which arrived yesterday. My first question is could i potentially have a similar set up using the Roland MX-1 as a mixer with the Minilogue XD, Modwave, MC 707, TR8S, TB 3, JD XI and SH 201 all through usb? If so will i need any kind of usb host or device or should the sound pass through as normal? If you have any suggestions i would to love to hear them.
I have not owned an Mx-1, I am going to say no since I know Pierrot the acid clown has 3 mx-1's in his setup (think they are linked via optical). I don't think they support any sort of USB except their proprietary "Aira"
@@avrilcadabra I had a feeling that’d be the case, those Aira only ports. I’d be interested to find out how Pierott has them linked together? I remember seeing a video, think it was by krsTBedfordStudios, who had had 2 MX-1’s linked together but then everything was set up using traditional 5 pin MIDI. I’d prefer to explore every avenue, my dad gave me a Zoom R16 a while back, could i potentially use that or is there a mixer you could recommend that would make life easier?
Hello I was curious as to how you connect your synths through midi usb. Do you also run a line out of your synth into the line input of the force? Or does the sound go through just the USB alone? I tried hooking my synth up to my force using usb and it receives midi data but no sound goes through my speakers.
Hi Andrew, the force ( I am using version 3.0.6 here ) is midi data only over usb, so I have my synths audio go into a mixer then the stereo outs of the mixer go into the force. If you only have one synth just plug it into the force directly (and never ever switch the phantom power switch while the force is turned on)
@@avrilcadabra Awesome that completely answered my question. Thank you. I’ll do exactly that. Thanks also about the phantom power. I did not know that. You’re talking about the phantom power from the mixer right? Do you have your switch on “line” or “inst” ? On the Force? I know these are basic questions. Thanks again
@@avrilcadabra right on.. yea definitely. I've bought a smaller one with power switches for usb powered gear with no switch of its own. I spend alot of time trying to get one with a good wattage pwr supply cuz these ports just don't cut it. Thanks for the info.
@@avrilcadabra what is the USB hub you use in the video? And is there any difference between that hub and the electron one or are the essentially the same? I have a force and am looking to buy one
Previously I was limited to 16 channels and could only route in the direction of signal flow. Now its as if every synth has a midi in out thru connection with every other synth and have 128 channels
@@TheDjAliceD you can have 128 midi tracks. The forces arrow buttons let you scroll sideways or up and down. 8 x 8 is just where you start. So can be 128 wide and I unlimited down. The audio tracks are limited to 8 and plugins limited to 8.
You would have to look at how much power is the forces usb ports supply and check the specs on the devices and do the calculations to determine if it falls within the limits, I think a powered hub is the best solution for more than 2 devices
Personally, I think it's a mistake to use any music making device to route MIDI signals because it limits you to only that throughput, and vastly reduces the flexibility of a studio. It also adds the overhead of needing to open said device and manually set up routing before you can have any one instrument in your studio send signals to another. A better solution is to use a sophisticated MIDI interface, such as the iConnectivity mio10. This way no device is the master. You can easily route signals from anywhere to anywhere, at any time, even if some of those devices are offline.
It is far more flexible than with midi cables. Previously if I wanted to sequence the FA off the td3 I'd Have to move the td3 over near the fa06 which means re routing its power supply cable. Then run a midi out cable to fa midi in. Which means nothing else could control the fa06 then grab a laptop plug the td3 in. Go into its software editor change the channel to match the studio set instrument or rearrange the studio set in the FA. With this setup I just pick td3 as input and FA and channel as output. You can turn any of these synths on and use them on their own. I would just plug headphones into the mixer and go. The mio iconnectivity requires adding a whole computer then you have to wait for that to boot and how do you route in mio. Do you need to load software or open ableton etc. That just seems way more complicated than buying a cheap usb hub
There is no midi sync problems when using usb in the Force, the entire thing will lag a few milliseconds behind samples, but it lags that few milliseconds together and can be counteracted with the Sample Delay plugin. I have a similar setup with a 15 port Rack mount SEDNA usb hub from Amazon, it's so much better than running 30 midi cables and much cheaper.
Thanks for this video. There is not a lot of videos like this with the Force. The Force is such an awesome machine.
No worries. Yes I wish there were more videos of it. I should make more
OK, I'm suitably impressed! This is fantastic, thanks for taking the time to demonstrate it... amazing that they each get access to all channels, just incredible!
It can take a little longer to get going but it is very cool. You could record any of the midi passing through the force and put it into a piano roll to. Then send it somewhere else.
@@avrilcadabra hey! with multimidi does the force capture knob changes on the external synths? like if you have the minilogue track recording and turn the filter knob on the physical synth, will it record that cc change on the force? also does it have any sort of midi definitions? like can you save certain cc's for certain devices so you're not always flipping through manuals if you want to program cc automation in the force? thanks!
Sorry for the late reply. I only see the new comments not replies. No it doesn't record cc automation. The mpc's can record cc mapped to mpc parameters but I don't think to themselves or other synths. Hopefully in a future update
@@penisbreath952 checked and apparantly the mpc does this. So hopefully the force will soon
thanks for explain some of those midi settings which had me scratching my head ! this is such a beast setup btw. doing it now.
Cheers hope it works for you
Great video, super helpful! You mentioned all the synths are running thru a mixer & then into the Force. Is the Force then connected to another mixer, or are the Force outputs connected directly to your speakers?
Thanks. The Force outs went to a zoom h6. It just suited what I do and making videos. Perhaps the arranger is better for others. I used headphone jack at the front for headphones.
This is awesome and very helpful! Thank you
An awesome setup! Neutron 2 sounds gnarly haha.
Perfect tutorial.I have the FA06 and other USB gear.I will now purchase the Force.Love the midi capability's.I guess you would still have to convert the midi to audio when done sequencing in the force maybe to an audio track
Thanks. I notice the clock jitter according to my digitakt is within a 1bpm range. I get clock jitter on midi cables also. But just so you know. The force can record about 20 minutes of stereo audio per project.
I am happy to send the forces outputs to my zoom h6. You can the record 4 outputs on the force separately. Or you can just record say a bar 4 loop from the FA. Best not to think of the force as an 8 track tascam recorder. Until they add disk streaming you ideally would be using samples or audio tracks playing clips
@@avrilcadabra Thanks.Thats good to know.Does that recording limit include both audio arrangement tracks and audio clips?
It has 2gig of ram. Some is allotted to OS but all samples go towards that whether they are in drum kits or audio track clips
Dope I’m pumped to try this!
Nice ... for me at the moment the Retrokits RK006 solveds every usage I need, but its a realy nice (but expensive) way to connect it with the AKAI Force ...
especially if you don't own the AKAI Force
I had a few people mention the rk006 looks like a very capable unit. I think a lot of people using akais are not using midi multi when they probably could or should be
@@avrilcadabra I agree
Fantastic video. I’m seriously thinking of getting the Force as my standalone DAW. I only have a simple set up consisting of a Roland Jupiter XM and a Roland RD88. So Using the USB hub method I could have the RD88 playing it’s own tones or the XM,s tones or Force’s built in sound engines tones,or play the XM or RD88 from the Force’s pads…….
It is impressive for it's ability to make complex midi routing simple, the only chore is setting up midi tracks that say rd88 in to XM out etc but you can make templates, I find the big force update to be a bit unstable compared to before , they are working on updates though. I would still like an XM and as far as my research went would pair well with the force.
Bloody interesting..
Hi, I know your video was made some time ago, but I have only just come across it!!
I have recently bought the Akai Force, I also have:
* Akai MPK249 (so I can play the forces sounds more easily)
* Roland E4 Voice Tweaker
* An Electric guitar
* a condenser Mic
* a Shure SM58 mic
And I am looking to buy an Arturia Minifreak synthasizer when it comes out next week.
My question to you is:
Could I somehow use the USB hub to connect these instruments/mics up so that I can use in the Akai Forces sequencer/arranger to record everything there?
Thanks
Sorry, I. Eant to add......
Would I need to buy anything else I.e a mixer etc??
Thanks
Hi Daryl, the way I had it setup here was with a mixer plugged into the force. I had a 10 port powered usb hub plugged into the force also, all synths had usb midi and were plugged into the usb hub, the only sort of issue you will have with this is if you wanted to use forces new guitar amps on the audio inputs it would affect everything. So you would be better of running a pedal cab sim before the mixer. That said the force now supports mixers like the tascam model 12 which might allow more inputs, though I am not sure as I don't have a mixer like that to try.
Thanks for your reply and advice, you have given me plenty to think about now, and also to look into with more depth.
So much appreciated, thank you very much.
I'm glad i found this video. Thanks for directing me over here. I have an arturia keyboard and the td-3, but when i input all the settings from the video i still can not use the keyboard or the force pads to play the TD-3. No sound comes from the TD-3. Is there some setup to do on the TD-3? During all of this I have the TD-3 on write pattern mode, and if i click pitch mode i can play the TD-3 on itself with sound, but nothing happens from the FORCE. I can see the arturia lighting up pads on the FORCE, but doesn't seem like the TD-3 wants to do anything.
OMG... I finally got it to work. Factory reset the TD-3 via synthtribe. I don't know what changed, but I can have the FORCE sequence as well as send individual notes from my midi keyboard. Only thing now is that in order to play the keyboard I have to have the midi track selected in the force. Maybe there is a global input setting in which I can be on any track and still have the keyboard play the midi track and thus the TD-3.
Glad you got it working mostly, I recall several times this happening also, it will be the sync mode (midi, usb, sync etc in the td3) also the force does let you set a midi device (in preferences to be global so it can control any track) but they keep changing that menu every firmware. Unfortunately you will have to make a template or project file with your midi tracks set up on the force if you don't want to do it each time. This is the downside of it. With smaller setups things can be a lot simpler just plugging a midi cable between devices.
@@avrilcadabra yes I totally agree. I have 5pin midi DIN wired up to everything and controlled by a motu mtp av unit before I had midi over USB to the force. The one thing that doesn't work now is bpm sync. The Akai Force does not accept midi timecode to change the global bpm of a project even though in the midi settings page it has a checkbox for it. So not sure there. Seems to break bpm sync entirely. My korg kaoss units no longer are receiving midi bpm sync either now. So I still have some more trial and error to do. I'm glad I can play the td3 with a keyboard or the force pads now though. I also got my rd-6 playable from the force though I have to figure out how to create custom drum pads on the force that correspond to the correct midi notes to send to the rd-6 as they are spread out and the notes are not consecutive for the rd-6 instruments.
I know there was some questions here and elsewhere on whether or not accents and slides work. I can say that as of the latest force firmware that accents and slides work perfectly well. I have it set that velocity over 96 triggers an accent and slides can be played just you normally would on a keyboard and has much less tonal falloff this way when compared to playing slides directly on the td3. You can still manage to get the falloff sound though if you want that type of sound.
I think the Midi update for MPC and Force is so powerful both in the studio and live too (When ever next we can do that) I'm using midi tracks and q links to control synths and effects pedals which are either on the floor or too far away to reach.
What q links are you using. The force does not send cc messages right ( I can use digitakt for that if needed ). I am curious what you are controlling on effects pedals to.
@@avrilcadabra I didn't realise Force can't send MIDI CC. MPC Midi Tracks do, so I control parameters on a Zoia and an H9 from the q links. What those parameters are is dependent on the patch, but generally its things like effect depth, feedback and delay times. Like the Digitakt its also great for automation of outgoing CCs.
I have considered using CV tracks on those effects pedals too as both have CV (6.3mm) inputs, though not got around to testing it.
That is interesting. Hopefully it comes to the force like that. Would love to automate digitakts delay etc
Thanx!
That looks really cool.
* Since the force is routing the signals, does it not matter which MIDI channel each device is broadcasting on?
* If you had more than ten machines to connect then I suppose you could chain USB hubs into USB hubs, right?
* What else besides a Force could do this sort of routing?
You could set all the synths to channel 1. It treats each as its own and they each get their own 32 channels ( not that I know of any synth that has more than 16 ). I'm not sure how big of usb hubs you can get. But yeah there is another usb port to plug another hub in. Others have mentioned the retro kits 006 as being able to do something similar
Nice one!
Cheers, nice channel you have!
@@avrilcadabra Thanks for watching! You as well.
Do you have an issue with the force side chaining all your hardware synths or because they’re in a separate mixer it doesn’t have this issue?
Depends on the song. If I want heavy side chaining as an audible effect on sonethings and not others I'd probably sample it.
I know this is now over a year old, but in case the original poster sees this, I have a Casio MZ-2000 synth, that in my opinion was way ahead of it's time. Anyway, by using your setup is there a way the MZ-2000 can be a master keyboard controller? I don't think it has USB since it's pretty old but it does have Midi in/out/thru.
Not actually used the breakout midi in the force, it will probably work if not you can buy a 5pin midi to usb converter like the Roland UM one. then you can use any 5pin midi as usb midi device.
4:50 like video game music from 90s
The glorious commodore 64 sid chip from 1982
Good video but how do you record audio using the Force's note/chord functions? When selecting the audio track, the midi track remains unselected!
I always recorded the force into a zoom h6, as I used the audio inputs on force to run my mixer though
What USB hub are you using? I don’t see a link in the description or comments.
Orico 10 port powered hub. It has MTT too which is nice.
@@avrilcadabra Which one? There are many Orico hubs. Does it have to be Class Compliant?
Great work my friend. A question, please: for use midi multi, i can connect a usb 2.0 (or 3.0) in one Classic usb Port of Akai Force, or i must use The first usb Port (that use For printer)? Thanks
Thanks. you use the 2 regular usb ports, the larger type B one is for connecting the Force to computer
Hi, i know this is over a year old but it’s such a great tutorial especially for those of us that haven’t even scratched the surface of what the Force is capable of.
I was planning on syncing everything through 5 pin MIDI with the Force as the brain until i saw this which then threw a spanner in the works 😂
I ordered the usb hub which arrived yesterday.
My first question is could i potentially have a similar set up using the Roland MX-1 as a mixer with the Minilogue XD, Modwave, MC 707, TR8S, TB 3, JD XI and SH 201 all through usb?
If so will i need any kind of usb host or device or should the sound pass through as normal?
If you have any suggestions i would to love to hear them.
I have not owned an Mx-1, I am going to say no since I know Pierrot the acid clown has 3 mx-1's in his setup (think they are linked via optical). I don't think they support any sort of USB except their proprietary "Aira"
@@avrilcadabra I had a feeling that’d be the case, those Aira only ports.
I’d be interested to find out how Pierott has them linked together?
I remember seeing a video, think it was by krsTBedfordStudios, who had had 2 MX-1’s linked together but then everything was set up using traditional 5 pin MIDI.
I’d prefer to explore every avenue, my dad gave me a Zoom R16 a while back, could i potentially use that or is there a mixer you could recommend that would make life easier?
Hello I was curious as to how you connect your synths through midi usb. Do you also run a line out of your synth into the line input of the force? Or does the sound go through just the USB alone? I tried hooking my synth up to my force using usb and it receives midi data but no sound goes through my speakers.
Hi Andrew, the force ( I am using version 3.0.6 here ) is midi data only over usb, so I have my synths audio go into a mixer then the stereo outs of the mixer go into the force. If you only have one synth just plug it into the force directly (and never ever switch the phantom power switch while the force is turned on)
@@avrilcadabra Awesome that completely answered my question. Thank you. I’ll do exactly that. Thanks also about the phantom power. I did not know that. You’re talking about the phantom power from the mixer right? Do you have your switch on “line” or “inst” ? On the Force? I know these are basic questions. Thanks again
There is a phantom power switch on the back next to the input ports some put tape over it. Can fry if its switched on with the force on so others say.
So can we use a USB hub to plug in the more than 2 synths we might have?
Yes. Just make sure its a powered hub. One with mtt chip type are best. Elektron overhub is an easy to find mtt hub
@@avrilcadabra right on.. yea definitely. I've bought a smaller one with power switches for usb powered gear with no switch of its own. I spend alot of time trying to get one with a good wattage pwr supply cuz these ports just don't cut it. Thanks for the info.
@@avrilcadabra what is the USB hub you use in the video? And is there any difference between that hub and the electron one or are the essentially the same?
I have a force and am looking to buy one
nice SetUp, but what is the different between playin all Synth via MIDI?
Previously I was limited to 16 channels and could only route in the direction of signal flow. Now its as if every synth has a midi in out thru connection with every other synth and have 128 channels
@@avrilcadabra to how many external instruments can the force send Notes? 8, like the 8 bars on the screen? or is there more options?
@@TheDjAliceD you can have 128 midi tracks. The forces arrow buttons let you scroll sideways or up and down. 8 x 8 is just where you start. So can be 128 wide and I unlimited down. The audio tracks are limited to 8 and plugins limited to 8.
Ok I’ll watch @.75 speed 😉
Probably easier to pause. But if 0.75 works haha. I'll remind myself once again to pace it slower next time. Thanks for watching
Do you need a USB hub with power?
You would have to look at how much power is the forces usb ports supply and check the specs on the devices and do the calculations to determine if it falls within the limits, I think a powered hub is the best solution for more than 2 devices
Great vid but I need to be a speed reader to read all the info I goes so quickly ...👀
aww sorry, I have a bad habit of this
Personally, I think it's a mistake to use any music making device to route MIDI signals because it limits you to only that throughput, and vastly reduces the flexibility of a studio. It also adds the overhead of needing to open said device and manually set up routing before you can have any one instrument in your studio send signals to another. A better solution is to use a sophisticated MIDI interface, such as the iConnectivity mio10. This way no device is the master. You can easily route signals from anywhere to anywhere, at any time, even if some of those devices are offline.
It is far more flexible than with midi cables. Previously if I wanted to sequence the FA off the td3 I'd Have to move the td3 over near the fa06 which means re routing its power supply cable. Then run a midi out cable to fa midi in. Which means nothing else could control the fa06 then grab a laptop plug the td3 in. Go into its software editor change the channel to match the studio set instrument or rearrange the studio set in the FA. With this setup I just pick td3 as input and FA and channel as output.
You can turn any of these synths on and use them on their own. I would just plug headphones into the mixer and go.
The mio iconnectivity requires adding a whole computer then you have to wait for that to boot and how do you route in mio. Do you need to load software or open ableton etc. That just seems way more complicated than buying a cheap usb hub
There is no midi sync problems when using usb in the Force, the entire thing will lag a few milliseconds behind samples, but it lags that few milliseconds together and can be counteracted with the Sample Delay plugin. I have a similar setup with a 15 port Rack mount SEDNA usb hub from Amazon, it's so much better than running 30 midi cables and much cheaper.