NAMM 2015: Akai Professional Advance Keyboards

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@skizm You won the internet today.

 

It's a forum. I'm not wasting anyone's time am I since you seem to be here responding to me. If I was really wasting everyone's time then this thread wouldn't be 30 odd pages long because obviously people would have better things to do.

I own Machine and I own the S4, I own the Kore 1 controller and have bough Komplete since version 4. Not sure what point you are trying to make. That I can't criticize a company I buy products from as a customer? That's just stupid and you are stupid for even writing that. NI doesn't own me. I say whatever the **** I want about the company. So far what you call bashing I call healthy criticism. If that's too much for your obviously very fragile ego, since apparently your identity is tied to NI's success for some reason, all I can say is get a therapist. You obviously have issues.

As for the bit about Spark and Groove Agent (whatever that is) I have no idea who you are talking too as I don't own those products. And no one said anything about not being able to mix or do whatever with Maschine. You seem to have issues with reading comprehension as my posts have revolved around Maschine as product, as in I bought maschine now since 2.2.4 it's a buggy mess, as in I won't buy those expensive ass keyboards unless they do more than what they do now. If you read my posts I have said several times that I have no real issues with Machine's sequencer. Are therr\e things that bug me sure. I use Maschine almost exclusively to create the backbone of my music. So I'm not sure who the hell yo are talking to. It's not me. I use NI products for almost all of my tracks. I like NI products. I own NI products, and I have been on this forum much longer than you. So get off that **** man.

As for NI as a company what can I say I feel how I feel about them and the only ones who can change that is them not you or Skizm or anyone on this forum.

Am I supposed to let NI take out buggy products, that actually affect my workflow and not complain? Am I supposed not come into a thread of an interesting product and post my opinion? We have 30 pages of everyone here doing the same. It's you who has the problem. I can bash NI any ******* way I like if I feel the need to. Don't like it just ignore me or I don't know, don't come into a thread about a competitors product if you feel like someone is picking on you because they are picking on NI. Get a life bro.

 

Could really use this, even if just in MIDI mode it can be very useful I see how to color and add key zones but what I really need is to be able to make the high note and low notes on the scale exactly the registers I need.. as far as I see as of right now the Editor doesn't let you adjust that even after splitting the key bed into different sections and MIDI channels. But then to even use this in Komplete Kontrol is going to take some learnin' if its truly available already.
EDIT: Spoke to soon you can do the keyboard split and then set the MIDI channels then transpose the keyboard sections to desired register.. pretty freakin cool..

So it looks like to me that she is in MIDI mode and has some macros mapped to do this.. would be cool if it was able to do this in Komplete Kontrol Mode, either way its working.

 

It's 7 months
Lol

 

your wrong the s3000xl which I speak is the same sampler josh winx used for higher state to give the stretched vocal effect.

 

I said nearly a year old because the guy said it was brand new im sorry it isn't even if it was 6month ..9 months ..etc its still not new as one person thought

 

lol..you should lay of the weed you've got a few members al mixed up in that quote lol..im the one who owns groove agent 4 and spark..i don't have maschine studio or s4 I didn't say id consider control s I said I may consider a future version.ive also been a member on here ages and creating music for along time too and had records out made money blah blah blah.
look you obviously only love ni products that's cool were on a ni forum but this initall post was about the akai advance and all you've done is ambush it with your idiotic posts your an absolute loser who also must be jealous of the akai advance and you probably secretly want one but are too poor too get one..my advice go get a paper round or get a job in mcdonalds making the secret sauce or you could ask your parents for an extra allowance too buy one..were bored of your remarks now lts get back on topic and dream of akai advances

 

Didn't the 2000xl have time stretch too
But not the 2000
There was a
Cd 3000 too that didn't have time stretch ?

 

I'm definitely intrigued by the unlimited layers, but I would rather have access to the software with any controller of my choosing which would be neither the kontrol or the advance. i like the waterfall keybeds of the Nord electros, and the keybeds of the stage, and the older fatar 8800 series/9000 series boards. The synth action fatar beds on controllers these days are ok but not something I would like to spend allot of time on.

 

most of the samplers after the s950 had it the s950 was the first and that gave birth to rave.one studio I worked in when rave started had a about 10 of them all stacked up on one wall then they replaced them with s1000 then finally with s3000xl all with filter boards and fx boards fitted.ive still got one that's fitted with full ram and filter board and still works and looks brand new.the only thing that went wrong with them was the screen backlights used to burn out in ealier models but they were a simple fix and you can still buy the new screens on ebay.
the s3000xl was the sampler that kick started jungle because the time stretch on it was amazing you could really stretch beats and theyd still retain the orginal kick bass also editing was a breeze with the waveform editor which is something most akais or other samplers didn't have at the time.
I paid about £1500 for mine when they first came out fully expanded from turnkey but they go for £50 on ebay if you've got a bit of spare money and looking for a cool new studio toy I recommend you all buy one they really are superb and built like a tank.

another cool sampler was e-mu e range they were the kick starter of the whole French house movement people like daft punk used it and still do because of its unique filters nothing quite sounds like the filters on them you can get a massive phatness to anything you want that you cant quite get from anything else..how we used them was to sample bass parts from the korg ms20 or juno 106 then use the filters to give them a massive bottom end and if your doing a remix youd sample the whole track your remixing,,split it then you could filter the sections how you want taking the bass out completely on drop downs and looping and phattning up verses ..very cool sampler and samething cheap as chips on ebay but if you do get one get the turbo editions with maxed out ram they load samples very quickly and editing is quicker with those than standard versions.

 

The 3000 came out in 96 ,yes
Well I'm pretty sure I was jungleist before that ,

 

the cd3000 was really ment for using with sample cds around the time of there realese companys like time and space popped up selling sample cds they were pretty good and some came in akai format so all you needed to do was pop the cd in and you didn't need to do much editing most of the work was done for you but I didn't like the cd3000 is was much bigger than the s3000xl and all the studios I ever worked in never bought one they wernt popular at the time most people used decks or separate cd systems to sample from.i had 2 technics 1210s with numark mixer plugged direct into mine for creating bootlegs for raves it was the fastest way of working.
id mix an accapella with a instrumental via the decks..sample this ..cut it up into parts..keyrange them..time stretch them slightly giving it a slightly faster feel..add the amen break beat..add a couple of james browns woo yeahs..sequence in Cubase on the old Atari 1040 and that's it your done one rave track bootlegged and in the raves the weekend after.

 

My mate had a emu, not sure which one , I know he never really got into it .
The mpc 2000 didn't have it ? I remember not buying one because of that.
I always wanted either a 3000 ,or later the 5000 6000 , but sadly never had that kind of dough ,
Nearly took a plunge a couple of years back , but decided it would prob be more hassle then it's worth.

 

This is why I wish there was the internet like today back in 96. I started getting into jungle 92/93 , kool fm ,unity 88.8 , maybe even 91 ,prob still hardcore then
Brought an artari St in 96. Didn't really know anybody interested in producing apart from the guy I brought the St from and he was into reggae , so never really got anything going , getting other equipment was a mission.
The jungle scene pretty much finish before I could touch a sampler .lol

 

yep your right jungle did come out a few years before and that was using a lot of s950/s1000 samplers but the genre really kicked of when the s3000xl came out because it allowed for more complex sounding beats and pitch down fill ins which were possible with older akais but were easy to do with s3000xl and sounded better it also then changed its name to drum and bass but too me it was all still jungle same as the so called new styles of house are really itali house too me they use the same basic stabbing m1 piano chords and m1 organ bass sounds the only real difference is they don't have funky drummer on them

 

Yeah I never liked the drum and bass tag ,

 

buy one now youll have fun with it and really cheap now .I always wanted the 6000 with the removable screen remote but it was very expensive and did basically the samethings as my s3000xl so couldn't justify buying one I remember I got a roland xp30 fully expanded instead and still have it and use it too this day..brilliant synth

 

the changing of genre name was a bit poncey and on the whole wasn't justified because it used the same breaks as jungle ..jungle used basically two breaks to create its loops amen/funky drummer youd sample both breaks cut it up into its compenent parts (kick,snare,hats,,,,etc)then youd either play in new breaks using those parts or draw in new loops using the piano roll in Cubase then youd resample those back into the akai and youd have your own custom loops

 

my favourite genre was trip hop ..Bristol fired out some amazing acts but that genre burned itself out too quickly it seemed record companys didn't know what to do with them once they had a hit on there hands and didn't really push the movement in other countrys as much as they should have.the talent some of those bands had was shocking but some got more fame than they deserved acts like tricky had money and fame thrown at him but never really did anything decent and mainly cashed in on his massive attack connections then he tried acting in fifth element but proved he couldn't act or stay unstoned then now you don't hear or see anything of him much..we should start a new competition weres tricky?lol

 

Yeah I remember the xp
There was a xp-10 ? Smaller version , my first synth was a Yamaha cs2x,got stolen lol then I got a Roland rs-5 ,typical romplers
And I had a dr660 , then I just went software ,reason and cubase .