Akai’s Greatest Hits

Become a Patron and get access to music clips from videos like this and Bad Gear, additional content, samples taken from the episodes and even more AudioPilz madness Welcome to another special episode!!! Hey everybody, in this video we will take a look at the infamous Akai Animals, Rhythm Wolf, Tom Cat and - of course - the legendary Timbre Wolf. We will try to find out if they are as bad as everyone says, how these analog machines have earned their questionable reputation and maybe we can even make them work in actual music production . This is Akai’s Greatest Hits !!! Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:22 How it all began 01:01 Akai Rhythm Wolf Overview, Drum Machine Voices 01:34 TB-303 Style Mono Analog Synth 02:00 Useless UI, Howl Distortion 02:21 Redeaming Qualities, Sequencer, Build Quality 02:44 Additional Features 03:03 Akai TomCat Overview 04:08 Timbre Wolf Introduction, A Tribute to Dan 04:40 Timbre Wolf Voices Overview 05:12 Voice Modes (Mono, Poly, Unison) 05:38 Multiple Outputs Short Timbre Wolf Jam 05:54 Form Factor, Features 06:23 Tuning, Calibration, Build Quality 06:37 Akai Animals on Bad Gear 06:50 Jam without FX 07:37 Fully Mixed Track using only the three Machines 08:08 Is the Timbre Wolf the next TB303 ??? 09:17 Patreon Vocoder Shoutout