Yeah um, the review was OK but that skin looked like crap - sorry. The crooked pad grid is immediately visible and the breaks in the skin near the top look bunk. I mean, cool he doesn’t have that sticky crap on there anymore, though. But… ew.
Anyone have MPC & Force…and managed to activate purchased plugins on both machines?
Solved: there’s 3 activations for each plugin, which includes Mac/pc
How would anyone play live performance consisting of 6-8 different “songs” on Force?
Just navigating down and right from one “song’s” tracks to other?
Akai discontinued the FORCE unit, if you contact support they don’t give the answer you like to hear. They could make this so powerfull, with tools from the oxi one or hapax, euclidian sequencer… It could be octatrack BOOOOMing unit.
The current is powerful as is. Hopefully they will still make a Mk2 or MPC64 but with an even more Force like OS & dedicated buttons like the current Force.
You alway download the MockbaMod OS that has many features the Akai OS lacks like an Euclidean sequencer & tempo automation.
We don’t need mk2 Just updates and official to mk1
Akai seems to disagree. Hopefully they still drop that OS update they mentioned.
Hi everyone, is it possible and realistic to hope for a module for MockaMod that would allow converting a monophonic audio track into a midi track (not in real time of course) ?
Hopefully there still developing it and adding new features.Its a bit of a mystery mod……
There are some open source tools for that that can be integrated: List of open source audio to midi packages · GitHub
However, I think it’s unlikely to happen.
Don’t expect any updates anymore, it’s discontinued for InMusic/Akai.
They just have to tweak the mokba mod a little more… and make it official update.
But MPC’s are more important for akai, to bad 
FORCE is the real BOOOOM unit… could be so much more against PushSE or even the octatrack.
Is it confirmed that force is dead?
Or is a mk2 planned perhaps?
The os seems relatively similar, and people embrace clip launching… Seems a bold move to drop it.
Do you work for Akai?
If not than you don’t know what are going to do next since they don’t share their plans with the public. They did say they would drop another update. They just didn’t say when. They still haven’t officially announced the Force as being discontinued & even if it was they can still drop OS updates. They just won’t be make more.
Like I said I hope they drop that update they mentioned back when MPC3 dropped.
I don’t know, but it would make more sense to kill the Force & rebrand it as the MPC64 with up to date specs & OS improvements. 64 pads with MPE would hard to resist in today’s market.
Contact support and you have your answer about discontinued… 
They can put mk2 where the light don’t shine… They promised updates to the sticky rubber force unit. Mpc 3 pc software connection between force and the mpc 3 platform is what we need. And euclidian tools without mockbamod, make it oxi one and hapax proof and use the crossfader to let the octatrack features explode 
Did they say anything different from this?: https://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=218458#p1886795
I don’t trust companies promises. I can only hope that they do what they say. If making a mk2 means a better completely new OS with few to bug that don’t go unfixed for years & better hardware specs, I’m all for it.
To make the Force OS connect to the PC software may be another reason why they needed to move on. I think that may be thing with the Force. If there’s something fundamentally wrong with the OS then it may be better at this point to stop dealing with mk1 & focus on mk2. It’s not like the Force is an undeveloped device. I told you the current Force is powerful as is. The MIDI note on bug sucks, but I’m not normally using the Force in way that it would be an issue.
In order to have those Mockba type features they may needed to start from scratch. In this modern age of MPE & more devices with more pads like the new Move, I don’t see Akai not having some Force/64 pad type groovebox. If there was ever a time to have a new Force it’s now. I hope the new Force or whatever have a tilt screen.
MPC 3 is literally built on the Force OS, and you can bet the farm that there will (eventually) be a desktop MPC software version that will utilize the new features for all the MPC heads that insist on working in controller mode, so neither the OS (in its current or past form) or the hardware is really an obstacle IMHO. If the info in that link from the MPC forums is legit, it sounds like they are pausing Force production (and OS development) for the time being, and that’s absolutely because MPC has always been their bread and butter, and they need to get MPC 3 launched - and eventually - on brand new hardware. And I’d bet the farm that said new hardware will have a completely different motherboard/cpu, etc, and be faster, so it doesn’t surprise me at all that they are pausing Force production if that link’s info is legit.
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That’s what I’m thinking. It’s not like the Akai is struggling company. They released MPC Stems other plugins & beta OS this year alone. The Force may not have been a big seller but I don’t think Akai ever thought it sell like hot cakes so they made a less of them, but sold most of them (the fact that its out of stock means people are buying it) so that still a form a success.
I see them making something better in the future. Giving the it the title of MPC64 instead of the Force will make it make more sense if they plan on keeping everything running MPC3 & the same PC software, but to take the OS merging thing to the next level with the rest of the Force stuff, the clip-matrix & crossfader macros & everything else that make it unique, they will need a new designed hardware. Them dropping MPC3 on the current gen IMO is them giving users a preview of the future while also getting direct feedback from their future customers.
I dont own any MPC standalone machines (i only use the software), but can’t you guys already use MPC Software to control all the standalones?
No, not really. In fact, I’ll bet that we do see Clips ala Force Clip Matrix on MPC 3 at some point, and it will work just fine on the current generation hardware. Obviously won’t be as synergistic as having 64 pads at our disposal (ala Force), but that’s what the touch screen is for.
Of course! But in it’s current form, the desktop MPC software is only 2.x, and MPC 3 only utilizes 2.x features in Controller mode. Because there is no MPC 3 version of the desktop software yet.
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