“Is there any support for real-time modulation control on Akai’s new Z4 or Z8 samplers?”
The Z4’s four Q-Link knobs, or the Z8’s eight Q-Link knobs, can be separately assigned to allow flexible real time modulation of a wide variety of selectable parameters, including amplitude, filter cut-off and resonance, start offset, effect send, sample tune and more. Control of an entire program, or an individual sound assigned to a single keygroup, is possible. Each assignable Q-Link knob is capable of generating MIDI continuous controller data so that all performance information can be recorded and played back from any sequencer.