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Chapter 7: The Mixer
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Torq 2.0 User Guide
Gain/Mute
This knob increases or decreases the volume of the incoming audio signal by as much as 12db. This lets you
match the levels of the songs you’re mixing together.
The “G” button next to the Gain knob is the Mute button. Pressing this button will mute the incoming au-
dio—resulting in a silent channel.
EQ/Kills
Each mixer channel is equipped with a 3-band EQ which lets you use each knob to control the levels of High
(H), Mid (M), and Low (L) frequencies of the song being played. Turning them to the right boosts their respec-
tive frequency range, while turn them to the left decreases it.
Next each knob you will find a corresponding kill button. Pressing them completely removes their corre-
sponding frequency from the audio signal. When all three have been pressed the signal is muted in the same
way as if the Mute button (G) has been activated.
The EQ controls are used to (1) improve the sound quality of poorly recorded or produced songs, (2) assist in
matching the overall frequency content of two songs, (3) add emphasis to the music by removing or isolating
one or more of the frequency ranges, and (4) mix songs together in a “jigsaw” fashion by swapping the fre-
quency ranges of two songs as they play together.
Old songs typically don’t have as much bass as today’s tracks. Therefore, you’ll often use the Low EQ to boost
the bass (low frequencies) of the old song to match the louder bass of a recent song. Without doing this, it may
sound like the music gets quieter as you mix from the recent song to the older one.
Likewise, even tracks recorded within the same year can sound different from one another, even when playing
at the same volumes. This is usually because one song will have stronger Mid frequencies compared to the
other. If the bass parts in both songs sound like they’re the same volume, you can use the Mid EQ to “turn
down” the louder song until it more closely matches the quieter song.
DJ's also like to mix things up during their sets by adding their own manipulations to the songs they play. For
example, a DJ might cut the High and Low frequencies from a track a few beats before the chorus of a song,
then bring them back right when the chorus starts (the perfect job for Torq’s High and Low Kill buttons).
When two songs are playing at the same time, you’ll frequently find that the music sounds muddy. This is
normally due to “un-complementary” bass content in the two songs. This can be as simple as the two songs
being in different keys, or could occur if both songs have long, sustained bass notes. In order to clean things
up, you can simply remove the bass from one of the songs with one of the Low Kill buttons. This will leave
the bass from the other song in the mix, so it will still sound natural. When you’re ready, press both Low Kill
Gain Knob
Gain Mute Button
Содержание
- Legal notices p.2
- Documentation feedback p.2
- Chapter 1 introduction to torq 2 p.3
- Transport control p.3
- Four deck mode vs two deck mod p.3
- Activatio p.3
- Torq 2 feature p.3
- File lis p.3
- The browse p.3
- Effects fx p.3
- System requirement p.3
- Display p.3
- Speed slider speed p.3
- Deck switc p.3
- Setup assistan p.3
- Crossfade p.3
- Product registratio p.3
- Control deck mode p.3
- Pfl headphone cu p.3
- Contents iii p.3
- Mixer architectur p.3
- Contents p.3
- Master syn p.3
- Chapter 7 the mixe p.3
- Marker p.3
- Chapter 6 waveform displa p.3
- Chapter 5 the deck p.3
- Main out sectio p.3
- Chapter 4 accessing your musi p.3
- Loading songs onto the deck p.3
- Chapter 3 torq 2 configuratio p.3
- Welcom p.3
- Installatio p.3
- Chapter 2 software installatio p.3
- Using torq 2 with window p.3
- Information shown on the displa p.3
- Traq morp p.3
- Hide mixe p.3
- Chapter 9 sample p.4
- Phase grid manipulation p.4
- Chapter 8 effect p.4
- Momentary vs latching behavio p.4
- Chapter 14 external and midi contro p.4
- Midi preference p.4
- Chapter 13 rewir p.4
- Midi contro p.4
- Chapter 12 torq preference p.4
- Master temp p.4
- Masking a snapsho p.4
- Chapter 11 synchronizatio p.4
- Locations preference p.4
- Chapter 10 snapshot p.4
- Vst preference p.4
- Gui preference p.4
- Built in effect p.4
- Vst effect p.4
- External preference p.4
- Behavior preference p.4
- Using snapshot p.4
- External control calibratio p.4
- Automatic tempo and phase detectio p.4
- Swapping snapshot p.4
- External contro p.4
- Auto master deck selectio p.4
- Snapshot lis p.4
- Duplicate snapsho p.4
- Audio routin p.4
- Signal sourc p.4
- Delete snapsho p.4
- Audio preference p.4
- Sampler control p.4
- Creating a snapsho p.4
- Resolving playback issue p.4
- Control p.4
- Polyphonic snapshot p.4
- Contents iv p.4
- Deck command p.5
- Contents v p.5
- Chapter 15 midi platter contro p.5
- Browser command p.5
- Appendix c warrant p.5
- Appendix b torq vinyl control syste p.5
- Appendix a key command p.5
- Warranty term p.5
- Technical information and tips on torq s vinyl control syste p.5
- Miscellaneou p.5
- Midi platter control mode and auto syn p.5
- Midi platter control mod p.5
- Welcome p.6
- Torq 2 features p.6
- Chapter 1 introduction to torq 2 p.6
- Using torq 2 with windows p.7
- System requirements p.7
- Screensaver and power options p.7
- Screen saver p.7
- Power options p.7
- Cleartype font usage in windows xp p.7
- Product registration p.8
- Conventions used in this guide p.8
- Windows 7 vista and windows xp p.9
- Macintosh os x p.9
- Installation p.9
- Chapter 2 software installation p.9
- To activate torq automatically p.10
- This option lets you register torq over the internet p.10
- There are two methods of activating torq as described below p.10
- Once you have completed the software installation torq must be activated and authorized using the avid ac tivation tool this tool can also be used to activate torq to run as a 30 day trial version p.10
- Choose internet activation and click next p.10
- Automatic activation p.10
- Activation p.10
- When you see the activated screen your copy of torq is activated and ready to use click finish and torq will continue to launch p.11
- Enter your serial number and system id in the respective text boxes your serial number and system iden tification number are located inside the enclosed torq 2 quick setup guide if you purchased torq online you received your serial number and system identification number from avid by e mail you can also view your serial number and system identification number by logging in to your support account p.11
- Click next and torq will connect to the internet and activate automatically p.11
- Manual activation p.12
- Day trial activation p.14
- Deactivating torq p.15
- When the deactivate screen appears click next to complete the deactivation process p.16
- Setup assistant p.17
- Manual setup p.17
- Chapter 3 torq 2 configuration p.17
- Internal mixer mode p.18
- Torq preselects the most common location for your music folder based on your operating system if the folder path displayed on the music library setup screen is correct click next p.20
- If you have itunes installed on your computer torq will preselect the default location of your itunes library based on your operating system if the folder path displayed on the itunes library setup screen is correct click next p.20
- External mixer mode p.21
- Torq preselects the most common location for your music folder based on your operating system if the folder path displayed on the music library setup screen is correct click next p.22
- If you do not see a listing for the midi device you want to use click the refresh device list button a warn ing screen will appear asking you to confirm that you want torq to scan for the missing midi device read the screen very carefully then click yes if you still want to refresh the device list once the process has com pleted and your device appears click next p.22
- Review the information displayed on the summary screen then click next if all the information listed is correct p.23
- If you have itunes installed on your computer torq will preselect the default location of your itunes li brary based on your operating system if the folder path displayed on the itunes library setup screen is cor rect click next p.23
- Click finish on the enjoy screen p.24
- The browser p.25
- Chapter 4 accessing your music p.25
- Snapshots p.26
- Database p.26
- Adding folders to database p.26
- Searching specific database folders p.27
- Adding multiple folders p.27
- Adding folders from your os p.27
- Removing folders from database p.28
- Files hard drives and cd s p.28
- Creating new crates p.28
- Crates p.28
- Renaming a crate p.29
- Removing songs from a crate p.29
- Adding songs to crates p.29
- Reordering songs in a crate p.30
- Duplicating a crate p.30
- Deleting a crate p.30
- Rename playlist p.31
- Playlists p.31
- Deleting a playlist p.31
- Creating new playlists p.31
- Reordering songs in a playlist p.32
- Removing songs from a playlist p.32
- Duplicating a playlist p.32
- Adding songs to a playlist p.32
- Activating a playlist p.32
- Saving a playlist p.33
- Session playlist p.34
- Loading a playlist p.34
- Rename the session playlist p.35
- Deleting session playlists p.35
- File list p.36
- Editing fields p.36
- Sorting the list p.36
- You can hold shift and click additional categories if you wish i e you can select song and album simul taneously p.37
- When you stop typing you ll have a list of all files that contain the search term in one of its fields p.37
- Torq will refine its search results and only show songs that contain your search term within the selected field p.37
- To search the list p.37
- To confine a search to a particular category p.37
- The simplest method for searching is to type a keyword or keywords into the search field above the data base browser p.37
- Shift clicking a selected category will de select it p.37
- Searching the list p.37
- Search categories p.37
- Hold down the shift key and click a category name the category name will turn red p.37
- For example if you type the word love into the search field torq could return the following results p.37
- Click the database heading in the browser pane to select it p.37
- Click in the search field and type in your search term s terms can include an artist s name a song title bpm etc p.37
- As you can see the above search worked it found songs that contained the word love in any category however this may not be quite what you were looking for you may have actually wanted files with love in the song s name only to search for such titles you ll need to confine the scope of the search to the song cat egory only p.37
- As soon as you start typing torq will begin searching the database for the letters you have typed there is no need to hit the enter key on your keyboard p.37
- You ll see that as a result i d rather be your lover has been removed from the list p.38
- When you are done with your search and are ready to begin a new one press the clear button this will clear the search and ignore fields as well as deselect any categories that had been previously selected p.38
- Using our example above confining the search to the song category would yield the following results p.38
- Type in the term you would like to filter out of the search p.38
- Torq will display only the songs that contain the information required in the search field while omitting the songs that fit the criteria of the ignore field p.38
- Torq offers another method for refining your searches by means of the ignore field here you ll enter terms that you want torq to omit from the search results the ignore command will only be applied to the currently selected categories explained above p.38
- To omit terms from the search results p.38
- Song preview p.38
- Once you have located and clicked on a song in the file list it can be previewed within the browser by press ing the preview button headphone icon on the left end of browser search bar pressing this button plays the song sending the audio signal through the pfl headphone cue to your headphones p.38
- Now only the songs with love in their titles are shown p.38
- Filter field p.38
- Click to put a cursor in the ignore field p.38
- Clear button p.38
- Again using the example above entering the term lover into the ignore field will return the following list p.38
- Chapter 5 the decks p.39
- Four deck mode vs two deck mode p.40
- When the highlight deck assignment option is set to yes default on the gui page of the torq prefer ences the edge of currently targeted decks will be highlighted with a colored rectangle torq decks assigned to the left side of your controller are highlighted in green while decks assigned to the right side are high lighted in purple if a deck is highlighted in red it will be controlled by both sides of your hardware p.41
- The the table below lists key commands for assigning the decks to either side of an m audio xponent dj con trol surface however it is also important to remember that commands also bring the decks into focus when using your mouse and keyboard to control torq if you are using qualified third party hardware refer to the its documentation p.41
- The deck switch feature offers a set of key commands for assigning any deck to either side of your two deck hardware this lets you bring an assigned deck into focus as the target deck to be controlled by your hard ware this capability also extends to situations where you want or need to target and control any of the decks with a single hardware deck or with your computer keyboard and mouse p.41
- Once a deck has been selected torq lets you access and control numerous other functions on a per deck basis using additional key commands listed in appendix a under deck commands on page 153 p.41
- Deck switch p.41
- Deck assignment p.42
- Loading songs onto the decks p.43
- Drag and drop to the waveform display p.43
- Drag and drop to a deck p.43
- Using the function keys p.44
- Unloading songs from the decks p.44
- Copying songs to other decks make double p.44
- Song name p.45
- Overview waveform p.45
- Displays p.45
- Artist name p.45
- Time remaining p.45
- Time elapsed p.45
- Transport controls p.46
- Advance p.46
- Play pause p.47
- Setting quickcues p.48
- Quickcue p.48
- Quantize loop and quickcue points button p.48
- Markers p.48
- Playing quickcues p.49
- Once you ve set a couple quickcue points all you have to do is click on the desired quickcue button and the deck will immediately jump to that location and begin playing if you set your quickcue points at key posi tions within the song you can immediately jump to different sections on the fly such as jumping ahead to a chorus or back to the intro p.49
- If you d like to clear all of the quickcues in a song click the clear button p.49
- Clearing quickcues p.49
- Loop out behavior p.50
- Loop in out p.50
- Loop on off p.51
- Quickloop p.51
- Vinyl mode p.53
- Control deck mode p.53
- Cdj mode p.53
- Hybrid mode p.54
- External control p.55
- Control inputs 1 though 4 p.55
- Sync button p.56
- Nudge buttons p.56
- Master sync p.56
- Master button p.56
- Auto master deck p.56
- Synq reference button p.57
- Speed slider speed p.58
- Speed range rng p.58
- Automatic bpm detection p.59
- Flatten tempo p.59
- Bpm display bpm p.59
- Tap tempo p.60
- Multiply tempo p.60
- Manual tempo adjustment adj p.60
- Divide tempo p.60
- Tempo anchors p.61
- Key lock p.61
- Fine tuning p.61
- Bpm entry p.61
- Midi slider knob control p.62
- Effects fx p.63
- Chapter 6 waveform display p.64
- Phase grid p.65
- Information shown on the display p.65
- Hiding the phase grid p.65
- Waveform p.65
- Maximize waveform view p.66
- Marker display p.66
- Loop points p.66
- Tempo anchors p.67
- Tap tempo p.67
- Cue points p.67
- Adding tempo anchors p.68
- Mixer architecture p.70
- Chapter 7 the mixer p.70
- Line input button p.71
- Channels p.71
- Gain mute p.72
- Eq kills p.72
- Line input buttons p.73
- Channel volume faders p.73
- Pfl headphone button p.73
- Volume knob p.74
- Split button p.74
- Source knob p.74
- Pfl headphone cue p.74
- Hide mixer p.75
- Input assign buttons p.76
- Crossfader curve p.76
- Crossfader p.76
- Traq morph p.77
- Direction button p.77
- Crossfader pfl headphone p.77
- Crossfader invert p.77
- Traq morph modes p.78
- Frequency p.78
- Triplet mode p.79
- Traq morph pre listening p.80
- Volume control p.81
- Main out section p.81
- Main out recorder p.81
- Level meter and limiter p.81
- Setting the record level p.82
- Recording p.82
- Filename p.82
- Chapter 8 effects p.83
- Enable button p.84
- Effects slots p.84
- Controls p.84
- Bypass button byp p.84
- Routing button p.85
- Amount knob amt p.85
- Effects chains chain mode p.86
- Tweak knob p.86
- Tweak button p.86
- Saving effect racks p.87
- Loading effect racks p.87
- Clearing all effects p.87
- United view p.88
- Triplet mode p.88
- Enable button p.89
- Built in effects p.89
- Amount knob routing button p.89
- Tap button p.90
- Reverb p.90
- Feedback knob fbk p.90
- Enable button p.90
- Amount knob and routing button p.90
- Amount knob and routing button p.91
- Time knob p.91
- Freeze button p.91
- Flanger p.91
- Enable button p.91
- Delay rate knob and lfo button p.91
- Phaser p.92
- Frequency freq lfo knob and button p.92
- Enable button p.92
- Dual filter p.92
- Amount knob and routing button p.92
- Frequency freq knob p.93
- Enable button p.93
- Distortion p.93
- Band pass bpf button p.93
- Amount knob and routing button p.93
- Amount knob and routing button p.94
- Strobe p.94
- Rate knob p.94
- Mode button p.94
- Enable button p.94
- Drive sample rate srate knob p.94
- Tweak knob p.95
- Reverse button p.95
- Reverse p.95
- Invert button p.95
- Enable button p.95
- Amount knob and routing button p.95
- Hpf button p.96
- Enable button p.96
- Beat reverse p.96
- Amount knob and routing button p.96
- Align knob p.96
- Speed knob p.96
- Size knob p.97
- Resonator p.97
- Repeat p.97
- Enable button p.97
- Capture button p.97
- Brake button p.97
- Amount knob and routing button p.97
- Release knob p.98
- Enable button p.98
- Compressor p.98
- Attack button p.98
- Amount knob and routing button p.98
- Vst effects p.99
- Selecting effects p.99
- Latency p.99
- Vst crash guard p.100
- Assigning controls p.100
- Vst preset management p.101
- Signal source p.102
- Chapter 9 sampler p.102
- Sampler controls p.103
- Record sample button p.103
- Play sample button p.104
- Loop sample button p.104
- Unload p.105
- Sample pitch knob p.105
- Sample pitch p.105
- Sample name window p.105
- Sample gain knob p.105
- Pitch double halve p.105
- Naming scheme for recorded samples p.105
- Save bank p.106
- Rename p.106
- Load bank p.106
- Looping a quickscratch p.107
- Loading samples onto decks quickscratch p.107
- Assign to deck buttons p.107
- Snapshot list p.108
- Creating a snapshot p.108
- Chapter 10 snapshots p.108
- Using snapshots p.109
- Masking a snapshot p.109
- Swapping snapshots p.110
- Momentary vs latching behavior p.110
- Duplicate snapshot p.110
- Delete snapshot p.110
- Polyphonic snapshots p.111
- Phase grid manipulations p.112
- Chapter 11 synchronization p.112
- Automatic tempo and phase detection p.112
- Adjusting with the mouse p.113
- Adjusting with nudge buttons p.113
- Adjusting with advance buttons p.113
- Sync button p.114
- Master tempo metronome p.115
- Master tempo led s p.115
- Auto master deck selection p.115
- Chapter 12 torq preferences p.116
- Audio preferences p.116
- Reset sample counter p.117
- Mixer mode p.117
- General p.117
- Autogain target rms p.117
- Timestretch algorithm p.117
- Sample rate p.118
- Hw buffer size in samples p.118
- Hardware p.118
- Audio device p.118
- Internal mixer mode channel assignments p.120
- Channel assignments p.120
- Auto detect audio midi devices p.120
- External mixer mode channel assignments p.121
- Refresh midi device list p.122
- Platter tolerance p.122
- Midi preferences p.122
- Midi devices p.122
- Internal p.122
- Midi clock out in phase offset p.123
- External p.123
- Scratch sensitivity p.123
- Nudge sensitivity p.123
- Midi stop behavior p.123
- Mbc midi beat clock p.124
- Applications for mbc p.124
- Setting up mbc output p.125
- Setting up mbc input p.125
- Midi led sync p.126
- External meter p.126
- Skip protection p.127
- Options p.127
- External preferences p.127
- Relative speed mode p.128
- Relative mode p.128
- Control type gen1 gen2 gen3 torq vinyl torq cd p.128
- Calibration p.128
- Power threshold p.129
- Lead in p.129
- Velocity p.130
- Position p.130
- Error index p.130
- Vst preferences p.131
- Scanning p.131
- Ignored plug ins p.131
- Directory p.131
- Transport mode p.132
- Mixing p.132
- Cue exclusivity p.132
- Behavior preferences p.132
- Eq low frequency p.133
- Eq high frequency p.133
- Effect signal flow p.133
- Traq morph filter style p.133
- Traq morph cut style p.133
- Traq morph style p.134
- Traq morph duck style p.134
- Synq reference p.134
- Reset speed slider on deck load p.135
- Load on deck while playing p.135
- Quickloop size p.136
- Quickloop behavior p.136
- Quickcues and looping p.136
- Quantize cue and loop points p.137
- Loop out behavior p.137
- Search ipod with database p.138
- Musical genre bpm p.138
- Database p.138
- Analysis bpm low and high limit p.138
- Search itunes with database p.138
- This page lists the locations of the various system and application folders used by torq if these locations are incorrect or if you have moved any of the folder torq lets you reset the file path by clicking the appropriate browse button and navigating to the proper location p.139
- Locations preferences p.139
- Visual scheme p.140
- Language p.140
- Highlight assigned decks p.140
- Gui preferences p.140
- Tooltips p.141
- Full default p.141
- Adjust p.141
- Master tempo p.142
- Chapter 13 rewire p.142
- Audio routing p.142
- Internal mixer mode p.143
- External mixer mode p.143
- Chapter 14 external and midi control p.144
- Turntable or cd player p.144
- External control p.144
- Enabling vinyl cd control p.144
- External control calibration p.145
- Velocity and position p.146
- Velocity p.146
- Position p.146
- Control type p.146
- Absolute mode p.146
- Relative mode p.147
- Absolute rotation angle ara p.147
- Relative speed mode p.148
- Expanding the range of a hardware speed slider p.148
- Bpm matching p.149
- Resolving playback issues p.150
- Erratic playback position p.150
- Runout protection p.150
- Reversed playback direction p.150
- Power threshold controlling erratic velocity values p.151
- Error index p.151
- If the output level of your stylus cartridge is too low this can also result in high error index readings try re placing your stylus cartridge with one of the recommended models listed on our website at www avid com torqfaq p.152
- Midi learn p.153
- Midi control p.153
- Keyboard learn p.153
- Creating a midi assignment p.153
- Assigning knobs or sliders to buttons p.153
- Assigning buttons to knobs or sliders p.153
- Quitting midi learn p.154
- Clearing a midi assignment p.154
- Changing midi assignment p.154
- Midi platter control mode p.155
- Chapter 15 midi platter control p.155
- Untouched p.155
- Scratch p.155
- Playback methods p.155
- Nudge mode p.155
- Whenever synced deck is in midi platter control mode it can be used for scratching but the auto sync feature overrides nudge mode in order to keep the decks synchronized this synchronization is temporarily disabled whenever you use the platter for scratching p.156
- Midi platter control mode and auto sync p.156
- The following tables list mac and windows key commands for various torq 2 functions as listed below p.157
- Browser commands p.157
- Appendix a key commands p.157
- The the table below lists key commands for assigning the decks to either side of an m audio xponent dj con trol surface however it is also important to remember that commands also bring the decks into focus when using your mouse and keyboard to control torq if you are using qualified third party hardware refer to the its documentation p.158
- Deck selection p.158
- Deck commands p.158
- The following table list key commands for various deck related functions p.159
- Deck functions p.159
- Deck a p.159
- Deck b p.160
- Deck c p.161
- Deck d p.162
- Miscellaneous p.163
- Technical information and tips on torq s vinyl control system p.164
- How it works p.164
- By chad carrier p.164
- Appendix b torq vinyl control system p.164
- An introduction to vinyl tracking p.164
- Wreckin the records p.166
- Dust and dirt p.166
- Cue burn p.166
- Stereo separation p.167
- Poor frequency response p.167
- Ground hum p.167
- Pitch phenomenon p.168
- Audio isolation p.168
- Wiring p.168
- Signal levels p.168
- Use both sides of the control vinyl p.169
- Our lady pinky p.169
- Keep your hands clean p.169
- Best practices p.169
- Always carry extra control vinyl p.169
- Warranty terms p.170
- Avid warrants products to be free from defects in materials and workmanship under normal use and provided that the product is owned by the original registered user visit www m audio com warranty for terms and lim itations applying to your specific product p.170
- Appendix c warranty p.170
- Technical support usa p.171
- Product information p.171
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