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When using external Vinyl or CD control, the Key/Tempo Lock button will behave differently. When you press
this button, Torq will automatically re -tune the music you’re playing back into its original key. You’ll load up a song
onto a Deck, change its speed using the turntable’s pitch adjuster (which will result in the music changing speed and
pitch), then click the Key/Tempo Lock button to shift the music back into its original key while main taining your
new tempo.
Sync Button
The Sync button provides an automatic method of synchronizin g the beat and BPM of one Deck to the other or the Master
Tempo. When you engage Sync on a Deck (the Sync ico n is on), it will change that Deck’s tempo to match t he other Deck
or Master Tempo. Fur thermore, when you press Play, Torq will align the so ng to the phase of the other Deck or Master
Tempo. Essentially, the Synced Deck will be “slaved” t o the other Deck (which would be the “master”).
Sync will remain active until you turn it of f by clicking the Sync button again. While Sync is ac tive, the Deck will be affected
by tempo changes mad e to the opposite Deck or M aster Tempo. If you slow down the “master ” Deck, the “slaved” Deck
will also slow down in kind. If you attempt to scratch or re-align the “slaved” Deck, Torq will automatically snap it back into
alignment to match the ph ase of the “master” Deck.
When you turn Sync off o n a Dec k, it will keep the tempo setting allowi ng the so ng to kee p playing in time with the
other Deck. However, Torq will no longer at tempt to keep the two Deck s in sync if you make changes to them. Torq will
no longer snap the s ongs back into alignment if you move one of them, n or will Torq continue to match tempos if you
change them.
Nudge Buttons
If you’re not t aking advantage of Torq’s ability to keep t racks aligned using Sync, you can do it manually using the Nudge
buttons. I f you hear a song become ahead or behind the ot her, the Nudge butt ons will allow you to push the song back
into alignment by creating a smal l change to the playback speed of the song. If the song is ahe ad of the beat, press the right
Nudge button to slow it down. You’ll see the waveforms of the two songs move in relation to each other. Release the Nudge
button once the songs are alig ned properly and the original playback speed w ill be restored.
Note: The behavior of the Nudge buttons can be rever sed in the Preferences if you prefer the song to speed up whe n pressing the
right Nudge button.
Offset Buttons
Sometimes when mixing two songs toget her, you may nd that the beats are aligned with e ach other, yet the two songs are
still out of phase. This is most obvious when one song is offset by one beat, causing the sna re drums of the tracks to be out
of alignment. Th e Offset buttons ca n be used to correct this. Pressing these buttons wil l make the Current Song Position
jump forward or back by one beat- length.
Note: If you have the Sync Mode set to “Bar” in the Preferences, the Offset but tons will have no effect when the Deck’s Sync button
is on. This is because Torq will counte ract a one-beat offset when se t to Bar mode. If you want to offset the music by o ne beat when
Sync is on, you’ll need to off set the Phase Grid, which is explained later in t he section titled “Synchronizat ion.”