M-Audio Digital DJ System manual Tweak Knob, Strobe

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<Tweak Knob

This knob will adjust the Cutoff Frequencies of the filters.

»When the Tweak button is off, the knob will behave as follows:

1.Placing the knob at 12 o’clock will result in the audio passing through the Dual-Filter unaffected.

2.Turning the knob counterclockwise from 12 o’clock will begin to lower the Cutoff Frequency of the Low-Pass filter. You will hear the music become dull and muffled as you turn this down to the point where you’ll only hear low bass rumbles.

3.Turning the knob clockwise from the 12 o’clock position will begin to raise the Cutoff Frequency of the High-Pass filter. You will hear the music become more thin and brittle as you do this until only the highest of the high frequencies remain.

»When the Tweak button is on, the Tweak knob will merely control the center frequency of the Band-Pass filter. As you turn the knob down (counterclockwise), you’ll hear the high frequencies become muffled while you begin to hear more of the bass.

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”—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 unmuted followed by

2beats muted) or as fast as 1/64-note.

<Enable Button

Turns the Strobe effect on and off.

<Tweak Knob

This knob changes the rate of the Strobe. A tooltip will appear whenever you adjust this knob to show the current rate (expressed in note values).

<Tweak Button

Activating this button reverses the behavior of the Strobe—what was normally muted will be unmuted and vice versa.