Akai Fire Controller for FL Studio

The Akai Fire is a dedicated performance and production controller explicitly built for FL Studio and has been designed in close partnership with Image-Line to ensure excellent integration with the software. The Fire is a highly intuitive production tool that works to enhance your workflow and assists your music making experience providing you with a range of controls and functions that’ll make your creativity flow. The Akai Fire is a perfect controller for any FL Studio user giving you all the tools you need for creating exciting music and performing with fluidity and flair.

A dedicated browser function provides you with the ability to navigate, audition, and instantly load your audio samples into your tracks and can also be used to recall project files and open plug-ins and effects. A graphical OLED display lets you easily browse your collection of samples and plug-ins, while the rotary encoder enables you to preview and load devices and samples straight into FL Studio. A transport section gives you immediate access to record, stop, and play alongside a control for instantly switching between pattern and song modes providing you with a fluid workflow.

The intuitive layout offers direct hardware controls over your session so you can quickly mute and solo channels as you please as well as expand the matrix grid, select new channels, and navigate your way through your patterns and channels without needing to touch your computer mouse. Plug and play integration ensures you will be creating patterns and building tracks within minutes providing you with immediate interaction to FL Studio’s highly celebrated step sequencer.

The Fire MIDI controller comes equipped with 64 velocity-sensitive RGB backlit performance pads that allow you to step sequence patterns as well as triggering phrases and MIDI clips and can also be used as a keyboard allowing you to play with three octaves of notes. The performance pads can be used in three modes; these include note mode, drum mode, and performance mode. When in note mode the Fire’s performance pads can be used to add melodies and harmonies with three octaves of notes at your disposal so you can play all of your instruments and VSTs. The drum mode works to provide you with an MPC-style 16 pad layout that has seamless integration with FPC and SliceX and is perfect for those producers and performers who are after a traditional beat-making experience. When in performance mode the Fire controller works to trigger MIDI and audio clips and can be used to remix and re-imagine your tracks on the fly.

Four touch-capacitive knobs give you the ability to instantly adjust parameter values and provide you with direct control over channel, mixer, and user-assignable parameters and give you a more intuitive and fluid workflow. The four rotary encoders offer direct control over volume, panning, filter and resonance, and high and low EQ allowing you to sculpt your sound as you go. Multi-device mode lets you connect up to four Fire controllers at once allowing for unprecedented control over FL’s mixing and production workflow and enables you to expand the 4 x 16 pad matrix into an 8 x 32 matrix opening up a world of creative possibilities.