M-Audio Torq 2.0 [149/171] Bpm matching

M-Audio Torq 2.0 [149/171] Bpm matching
Chapter 14: External and MIDI Control
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Torq 2.0 User Guide
To extend the range of a hardware Speed Slider:
1 Set your hardware Speed Slider set to 0%.
2 Load a song onto a Deck, switch it to External Control and start playing the song.
3 Raise the or lower tempo by 8%, and then click the External Control button on the Deck. This releases the
Deck from External Control.
4 Reset the Speed Slider on your hardware to 0%, and Click the External Control button on the Deck. The
Deck is now under External Control.
5 Repeat steps 3 and 4 as needed, using whatever values you want.
As you can see, the effective range of the hardware speed slider has been expanded beyond the usual +/- 8%
range.
BPM Matching
So how does one go about doing a DJ set with only one turntable? It is a little different than doing it in Stan-
dard mode, primarily due to the fact that you must use Torq’s on-screen Speed sliders to match tempos as op-
posed to using the pitch sliders on your turntable or CD player.
Try it out:
1 Click Vinyl on a Deck and start the external control source.
2 While the song is playing, move the Deck’s on-screen Speed slider.
3 Sure enough—the playback speed of the song changes, just as if you’d moved the pitch slider on the actual
turntable or CD player.
The reason for requiring the use of the on-screen controls lies in the fact that external control can be toggled
back and forth between the Decks at will. Any time you do this, you’ll want the Decks to keep their previous
tempos. If the tempo of a Deck changed when swapping external control, the mix would suddenly fall wildly
out of sync.
Therefore, the speed of the Control Vinyl or Control CD must remain constant—Torq will scale the playback
rate as appropriate based on the setting of the Decks’ Speed sliders. If you change the speed of the control
source, you’ll find that the Decks suddenly change speed any time you toggle external control.
There is, however, one unique advantage to this setup: you can make use of Torq’s automatic beat-matching!
Instead of manually moving the on-screen Speed slider with the mouse or MIDI Control, you can simply click
the Deck’s Sync button and it’s Speed slider will be moved to match the tempo of the other Deck. Click the
Sync button again to turn it off, and the Deck will remain at the proper speed waiting for the external control
signal to begin. All you have to do then is start the music at the right time and keep it in alignment during the
mix via external control. This makes the process of preparing the next track much faster.

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