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Strobe

Just about anyone who has been to a dance club in the last 20 years has experienced a strobe light. Those are the super-

bright lights that flash really quickly. They have the effect of making everyone look like they’re in “stop motion”—the flash

is so fast that you can’t see movement anymore.

Torq’s Strobe effect will create a similar stop-motion effect, but it will do it to audio. The Strobe will essentially mute and

unmute the audio at a rate that you can control. The rate can be as slow as one bar (2 beats unmuted followed by 2 beats

The Mix knob will control the Dry/Wet mix of the effect. In use, this will control the depth of the Strobe effect.

Since the Strobe effect is muting the signal that passes through it, setting the Mix knob at 50% will result in 50%

of the signal still being present whenever the Strobe is muting. Therefore, you can use this knob to adjust the

intensity of the Strobe.

< Tweak Knob

This knob changes the rate of the Strobe. A tooltip will appear whenever you adjust this knob to show the

current rate (expressed in note values).

< Tweak Button

Activating this button reverses the behavior of the Strobe—what was normally muted will be unmuted and

vice versa.

immediately—it must slow down to a stop then speed back up in the opposite direction. This can make reversing

playback seem sluggish. Additionally, if the song is playing backwards, it will no longer be in the proper location when you

resume normal playback. For example, if you reverse playback as a way to add emphasis one bar before the chorus in a

song, you’ll find that playback is now two bars before the chorus when you resume normal playback.

Torq overcomes these shortcomings by implementing reversed playback as an effect rather than as a function of the

Deck. By doing so, you can reverse playback instantaneously—there is no lag due to the turntable changing directions.

Furthermore, since this is an effect, the song on the Deck will continue to play normally (the waveform will continue to

scroll in the forward direction) thus keeping the play position correct as you switch the Reverse effect on and off.

< Enable Button

When using the Reverse effect, this button is always on and cannot be turned off.

while the song plays backwards. When you release the button, normal playback will resume.