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FORCE 3.1 is Akai Professional’s latest and most substantial update to its stand-alone music production system.

Akai Professional Announces FORCE Feature Update 3.1

Introduces three new synth plugin instruments, seven new plugin insert effects including a vocal suite, Disk Streaming, USB audio interface support and much more.

Akai Professional has announced FORCE 3.1, its latest and most substantial update to its stand-alone music
production system in offering new plugin instruments, new plugin insert effects that include a vocal suite, Disk Streaming for external storage devices and more.

The three new plugin instruments include AIR Solina, AIR Mellotron, and WayOutWare’s Odyssey, designed to be faithful recreations of iconic synthesizer and keyboard instruments, now with graphic interfaces for visual feedback and interaction. Mellotron and Solina offer the Flavor effect processing sections, enabling creative applications of additional texture and character to sounds with distortion, noise, flutter, and more.

FORCE 3.1 also introduces seven new plugin insert effects for morecreative arranging and performance as well as mixing and mastering. Effects include Stutter, Half Speed, Granulator, Diffuser Delay, and Stereo Delay, all designed to
insert an inventive “spark” into tracks for unique drops, edits, and transitions. Diode Clipper will add “grit” and distortion to any source, while AIR Limiter will bring dynamic signal processing for a more punchy, finalized
mix.

Further, the new AIR Vocal Suite is designed to help record and mix optimize vocals right inside FORCE. The adaptive Vocal Tuner handles tuning tasks that range from subtle pitch correction to the modern auto vocal tuned sound found in all genres of modern music. AIR Doubler can add depth and dimension to solo or group vocals with spectrum-filling width and presence. Finally, the AIR Harmonizer can be used to quickly transform any single voice into four-part harmony.

In addition, users are afforded with a more accessible and efficient workflow with Disk Streaming from external storage devices, designed to enable better system resource allocation and performance. It also fosters added expandability via hardware connectivity with Class-compliant USB audio interface support. Up to 32 audio inputs and outputs can be routed to and from FORCE via a single USB cable.

The new portamento function offers gliding notes and percussion like 808 kick drums. A dedicated pitch envelope fosters dialing in optimized sample shapes, and breaks and chops can be smoothed out with Akai Sample Tail and access up to 10 drum pad effects that include Ringmod, Bitcrush, Tubedrive, Lowpass, and more.

Force 3.1 also adds new functionality to buses (submixes/returns/masters). The recording, playback and editing of automation follows the same workflow on buses as other tracks. Control submix and master tracks with the “Select,” “Rename,” and “Clips” functions as well as dialing in automation on the fly.

Finally, Force 3.1 expands MIDI integration with the ability to load and export MIDI files to and from FORCE. For even more MIDI integration, assign FORCE parameters to a third party MIDI controller for additional tactical control.

“Force Features Update 3.1 is not only a major upgrade for Force users, but it’s also a major evolution in standalone music production,” says Akai Professional senior product manager Dan Gill. “Disk Streaming is a significant advancement to this product as well as stand-alone music production in general because it opens up recording and playback possibilities without content limitations. Combine that with a Vocal Suite, which includes an adaptive Vocal Tuner, and powerful new synths and insert effect plugins, and you have an inspirational modern music creation system for any genre.”

FORCE 3.1 is available on October 19, 2021 as a free update for FORCE users. Go here for more specifics.

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