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Holding SHIFT and pressing a loop-button doubles the size of the active loop. Pressing one of the loop-buttons again halves the size of the active loop. I only have 3 of the loop buttons configured to set a loop. Speaking of loops I have to admit that this is one of the best things that came with Torq. (It is quite common to have cue ‘1’ and ‘3’ – I don’t know about the actual track being loaded but I guess cue 3 marks some point in the middle of the track where a loop can be set in order to mix into another track). The buttons are, of course, only active when the deck’s loaded track has the corresponding cues. Pressing an empty Cue-Button (button “2” on the left deck, for example) doesn’t do anything. Existing Cues can be deleted the same way. That’s why hot cues are only created when the SHIFT button is held down and the corresponding Hot-Cue-Buttons is pressed. That’s somehow okay but I personally put quite a lot of effort into my cue-system so I don’t want to accidentally set a cue on a track just because I pressed the wrong button. Pressing the button on an existing cue makes the track jump to this cue. Most controllers are configured in a way that they set a hotcue if you press the button and the cue doesn’t exist yet. The left deck shows the 4 buttons in Hot-Cue-Mode (the narrow button ‘HOT CUE’ is lit). It takes one second to get used to that but once you are in there’s not much better to it (instead of … well … having a dedicated control for that…). Pressing SHIFT and moving the right Jogwheel allows me to scroll through the selected playlist.
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Pressing the SHIFT button and moving the left Jogwheel allows me to scroll up and down in my playlists. Pressing and holding it down turns the Jogwheels into track-selectors.
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This is identical for both sets of buttons on the left and on the right of the controller.īut the SHIFT buttons does more. When pressing the SHIFT button the Sync and Cue buttons allow me to load the actively selected track from the playlist into deck A (SYNC) or deck B (CUE). I sometimes prefer nudging via buttons instead of doing this via jogwheel and this mapping allows me to do both. Without touching anything else they act as the tempo-nudge buttons for deck A and B. That’s why those buttons were also rerouted. I do not (!) use Sync or classic Cue-play. Those few times can be accomplished via touchpad without problems Whenever I play music I only very rarely touch the software’s Master Gain. First I rerouted the Master Gain to be the new controller for Headphone Mix. The controller itself does not have too many controls so you ( or me ) have to become creative. However, big thanks to DJ Roberts over at the DJTechTools forum. As far as I remember it was this one but don’t quote me on that. (I guess the NDA is more than obsolete since Torq is no more for a long time already).Ĭreating this mapping I didn’t start from scratch but based my work on an already existing one. Thank me for Torq 2.x not crashing when using a MIDI device that presents itself with an umlaut. By the way, did I ever tell you? When Torq 2 came out I was one of the alpha-testers. That’s why it was ab-so-lute-ly necessary to create a customized MIDI mapping for using Traktor.
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#Vdmx reive ableton midi software
A few weeks ago I bought the Hercules Starlight Midi controller because … of reasons and due to the fact that I started playing music on M-Audio’s infamous Torq DVS I have some leftover-habits of how I want my software / controller to react.