M-Audio Torq 1.5 Upgrade [16/99] Looping

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Looping

Technology is always evolving, thus DJing is always evolving. With the introduction of DJ CD players, DJs gained many

new exciting capabilities that were unavailable to them when working within the confines of vinyl records. One of those

features is looping, which is merely the act of repeating a section of a song.

The creative aspect of DJing suggests that a simple trick such as looping can be exploited in a variety of ways. Indeed, you

can use looping to “remix” a song by changing the arrangement—extending your favorite parts of the song. You can also

use looping as a “safety net” allowing the end of a song to play infinitely, giving you more time to mix into the next song.

using the Loop In and Loop Out buttons:

1. Load a song into a Deck and press Play. The song will begin to play.

2. When playback reaches the beginning of the section you want to loop, click the Loop In button. This will

place a Loop In Marker at the Now Line (shown as a yellow marker line in the scrolling and overview

waveforms) and the song will continue to play. If the Quantize button is on, Loop In marker will snap to the

beginning of the nearest 16th-note in the song’s waveform.

3. When playback reaches the end of the section you want to loop, click the Loop Out button. This will place

a Loop Out Marker at the Now Line, which will also snap to the nearest 16th-note (this behavior can be

changed in the Preferences). At the same time, the Loop On/Off button will automatically be activated

causing playback to jump back to the Loop In Marker. The music will now loop between these two points

< Loop Out Preference

By default, Torq will always quantize the position of the Loop Out marker to a location that results in a quantized

16th-note length from the position of the Loop In marker. This requires that you press the Loop Out marker

within a 16th-note of where you want the loop to end. Torq has a second Loop Out mode that will make it

easier to achieve even loops without having to press the Loop Out button with 16th-note accuracy:

1. Open Torq’s Preferences and click on the Behaviors Tab.

2. Switch the Loop Out mode from “16th” to “Smart” and close the preferences.

Now, when you press Loop Out, Torq will place the Loop Out marker at a position that is a multiple of 2 in