User guide

Chapter

English

WELCOME

hank you for choosing M-Audio’s Torq LE DJ performance software! M-Audio

is an industry-leader in professional music products for computer-based

musicians and DJs. What you hold in your hands is a piece of that heritage—a piece

of the very products used daily by professionals around the world. With this software,

you will DJ using your collection of audio ﬁles on your computer. You can even record

the results and burn them onto CD, or copy them onto a media player.

Torq LE is a full-featured DJ application that has all the functions you’d ﬁnd on

expensive DJ CD players and turntables. It plays back music at varying speeds and

pitches and automatically matches tempos of songs, creating smooth transitions

between tracks. You can also perform remix tricks such as looping and instant jumps

to other locations in the song. Lastly, Torq LE allows you to apply effects to the music

and fully control the mix of the songs.

DJing is an art. As with any art, it takes practice to become proﬁcient. However, there

are many features in this software that will help jump-start your learning process.

This manual describes the features and offers insight into the art of DJing. Once you

are proﬁcient with Torq LE, the sky’s the limit—you’ll be ready to explore the endless

possibilities of Torq LE’s only superior: SynchroScience Torq.

WELCOME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

TORQ LE OVERVIEW

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Decks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Main Waveform Display

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Mixer

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PFL/Headphone Cue

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Browser/Database

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Effect Racks

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Master Module

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