M-Audio Digital DJ System manual Loop In/Out, Loop On/Off, » Using QuickLoops

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<Loop In/Out

Looping an entire song doesn’t have much benefit for a DJ, so Torq allows you to move the Loop Markers by using the Loop In and Loop Out buttons:

1.Load a song into a Deck and press Play. The song will begin to play.

2.When playback reaches the beginning of the section you want to loop, click the Loop In button. This will place a Loop In Marker at the Current Song Location (shown as an orange marker line in the scrolling and overview waveforms) and the song will continue to play. The Loop In marker will snap to the beginning of the nearest 16th-note in the song waveform.

3.When playback reaches the end of the section you want to loop, click the Loop Out button. This will place a Loop Out Marker at the Current Song Location, which will also snap to the nearest 16th-note. At the same time, the Loop On/Off button will automatically be activated causing playback to jump back to the Loop In Marker. The music will now loop between these two points indefinitely.

4.When you’re finished looping this section of the song, you can click the Loop On/Off button to turn it off. Now, when playback reaches the Loop Out Marker, it will simply pass it and proceed playing the rest of the song.

Note: If you reposition playback using one of the QuickCue buttons while Looping is activated, playback will jump to the new location. Torq will then automatically place the Loop In Marker at that point and will place the Loop Out Marker in a position to maintain the same loop length in use prior to pressing the QuickCue button.

<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 looping on and off.

<QuickLoop

More often than not, a DJ will loop audio that is an even number of beats or bars. That is, they will loop a single bar (four beats) or two bars (eight beats), or may do 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 LE 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:

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 Current Song Location. Furthermore, the Loop Out Marker will be 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.