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Loading Effect Rack s
Obviously, if you can save the settings of an Effect Rack, you can recall them, too. That is accomplished with the Load button
at the top of the Rack.
1. Click the Load Rack butto n. A standard dialog box will appear.
2. Browse to the location on your hard drive in which th e Effect Rack conguration le is s tored, select the le, and
click OK. The le will load all E ffects in your Rack conguration exac tly as you saved them.
Note: Loading an Effe ct Rack will discard all ef fects currently in the Rack . If you have a combination you like, make sur e
to save it before you load in another con guration.
Bypassing the Effec ts
When using multiple effects at the same time, you may want to turn them on or of f all at once (instead of clicki ng each
effect’s Enable button). Clicking the By pass button at the top of the Rack will do just that—the audio from the Deck w ill
bypass the Effect R ack and will be sent straight to the Mixer. Click the but ton again to disengage the bypass.
Built-In Effects
The following is an explanatio n of the 10 built-in effects in Torq:
Delay
Delay is the technical term for what the D elay effect does, but you’ll probably like to think of this e ffect as an “echo.”
Essentially, the Del ay effect listens to t he incoming audio, holds on to i f for a predetermined amount of time, then spits it
back out. When the Delay output is blende d in with the audio, it sounds like an echo. Furthermore, you can feed the Delay
output back to its input a gain, causing echoes of the echoes (also k nown as Feedback).
DJs typically u se Delays to ll up space dur ing a break in a song (the las t couple of beats before the break can be echoed)
or to stretch out the ending of a song by letting it echo and slowly fade away. Because of the tempo-synced nature of Torq’s
Delay effect, you’ll al so be able to add rhythmic variance by layering echoe s that are perfectly timed to the mu sic.
< Enable Button
Deactivating this bu tton stops signal from feeding into t he Delay input. The output of the Delay will still remain
active so the remaining echoe s can naturally fade away.
< Mix Knob / Routing Button
When the Routing button is set to “Send,” the Mix knob will control the amount of audio from the De ck to feed
into the Delay. When the knob is fully co unterclockwise, no signal will be sent in to the Delay so you will not hear
any echoes. As you begin t o turn up the Mix knob, you’ll begin to he ar the echoes from the Delay. If you turn the
Mix knob up pa st its 12 o’clock position, the del ayed or echoed audio will become louder than the original audio
from the Deck.
When the Routing button is set to Insert, turning up the Mix knob will cause the output of the Delay effect to
replace t he sound from the Deck. This is a subtle difference t hat won’t be noticeable unt il you do one of the
following:
1. When you turn the Mix knob beyond its 12 o’clock position, the sound from the Deck will begin to fade away,
leaving only the sound of the Del ay.
2. If you quickly turn the Mix knob back t o 0, you will cut off any remaining echoes before t hey can be heard.
The Delay effect will load w ith the Routing button set to Send mode sin ce this is the typical routing for a Delay.