M-Audio Torq 2.0 [51/171] Quickloop

Chapter 5: The Decks

Torq 2.0 User Guide

Loop On/Off

The Loop button will indicate whether Torq is looping audio or not. Whenever this button is illuminated,

Torq will be looping something, whether triggered with one of the QuickLoop buttons or set manually with

the Loop In and Loop Out buttons. Click this button to toggle the current selected loop.

QuickLoop

More often than not, a DJ will loop audio that is an even number of beats or bars. For example, a single bar

(four beats) or two bars (eight beats), or micro-loops of only one or two beats. Instead of having to quickly

press the Loop In and Loop Out buttons to create loops of these lengths, Torq provides one-button access to

these loops via the QuickLoop buttons.

Using QuickLoops

The QuickLoop buttons allow you to instantly loop a section of a song by a preset length. By default, each of

the four buttons represents a different bar length; one bar, two bars, four bars, and eight bars. Simply press one

of these buttons at the beginning of the section you want to loop and Torq will automatically place the Loop

In and Loop Out Markers in the appropriate locations:

To automatically loop a section:

1 Load a song into a Deck and press play.

2 Press the QuickLoop button labeled “1.” The Loop button will be switched on and the Loop In Marker will

immediately be placed at the Now Line, with a corresponding Loop Out Marker placed exactly one bar later

and the song will begin looping a perfect bar.

3 To turn the loop OFF, click the Loop button. Playback will now proceed beyond the Loop Out Marker.

Doubling the Length of a QuickLoop

Looking at the example above, once the one bar loop has been set, Torq lets you double its length by holding

down the Shift key and pressing the “1” QuickLoop button. If needed you can increase the length up to four

bars. In other word, the first time you double the one bar loop it will increase to two bars, and the second dou-

ble will double the resulting two bar loop to four bars.

Pre-Loop

You can also reverse the behavior of the QuickLoop buttons by holding Shift when you create a loop. If you

do this, Torq will place the Loop Out marker at the current playback location and will set the Loop In marker

at the indicated number of Bars or Beats (depending on the QuickLoop Size preference) before the playback

location. Using this feature, you can loop sections of audio that just played. For example, to repeat the last 2

bars of music that played, hold Shift and press/click QuickLoop 2.