M-Audio Torq 2.0 [94/171] Mode button

M-Audio Torq 2.0 [94/171] Mode button
Chapter 8: Effects
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Torq 2.0 User Guide
Mode Button
This button is used to set the operating mode of the Distortion. When the button is off, the Distortion is in
Overdrive mode. When the button is on, the Distortion will be in Sample Rate Reduction mode.
Drive/Sample Rate (SRATE) Knob
When Mode button is off, the Drive knob increases the volume of the signal being fed into the distortion.
When the knob is fully counterclockwise, the input signal is not boosted and therefore un-distorted. As you
turn this knob clockwise, the volume will begin to increase. At a certain point, you’ll start to hear the audio
become distorted. You can leave the knob here for a subtle distortion, or you can continue to turn it clockwise
in order to push the distortion into really nasty realms.
When the Mode button is active the name of the Drive button will change to SRATE, indication that the effect
unit is in Sample Rate Reducer mode. The SRATE knob controls the output sample rate. When the knob is fully
counterclockwise, there is no sample rate reduction, so the audio will be un-distorted. As you turn the knob
clockwise, the sample rate will be lowered. The high frequencies will be the first to exhibit signs of distortion.
As you continue turning the knob, the distortion will move lower and lower into the frequency range of the
audio until all that remains is low-sample junk.
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” because 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
un-muted followed by 2 beats muted) or as fast as 1/64-note.
Enable Button
Turns the Strobe effect on and off.
Amount Knob and Routing Button
Because the Strobe effect is designed to mute the audio from a Deck, it needs to be used as an Insert effect.
Therefore, the Routing Button will be set to Insert mode whenever you load this effect. The Amount knob will
control the Dry/Wet mix of the effect. In other words, this knob controls the depth or intensity of the Strobe
effect. Since the Strobe effect is muting the signal that passes through it, setting the Amount knob at 50% will
result in 50% of the signal still being present whenever the Strobe is muting.
Rate Knob
This knob changes the rate of the Strobe. A tooltip will appear whenever you adjust this knob to show the cur-
rent rate (expressed in note values).
Activating Triplet Mode as describe in “United View” on page 83 adds additional note value choices to the
Rate knob.

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