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Torq 1.5 User Guide 

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Torq 1.5 User Guide  

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Speed Slider

Torq’s Decks are each equipped with a Speed 
Adjust slider for the purpose of beat-matching 
songs. This slider behaves just like the pitch 
adjusters found on DJ turntables and CD players. 
As you move this slider, the neighboring ADJ 
display will show how much the song’s speed is 
being altered (expressed as a percent where 0% 
is the original speed of the song) and the BPM 
display will change to show the new tempo of the 

song.

For those not familiar with these controls, your 
first impression may be that the slider is working 
backward since the speed of the song will 
increase as you move the slider down on screen. 
However, this is the proper behavior for pitch 
controls found on DJ turntables and CD players. 
It makes sense if you consider the following:

The pitch adjust slider on a turntable is mounted flat on the surface of the turntable’s housing. Therefore, when you use 
the slider, you either push it away from you or pull it towards you. When a song is going too fast, you push the slider 
away from yourself, just as if you put out your hand in a “slow down” motion. If you need the song to go faster, you pull 
the slider toward you, similar to how you would gesture towards yourself if you wanted someone to move quickly. After 
a few hours of practice, this “backward” response will feel natural. 

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Slider Range

 By default, the range of the Speed Adjuster is +/- 8%. That means that if you move the slider to either of its 
extremes, you’ll only get an 8% change in the speed of the song. To the left of the Speed Adjuster is a display 
showing the current range setting for the slider:

 You can change the range of the Speed Adjuster by clicking on this range display. Each time you click, the range 
will advance to the next highest setting. The order is: 8%, 10%, 20%, 50%, then 100%. When you click the display 
again, the range will “wrap around” back to 8%. You’ll only need to increase the range when you’re trying to 
match two songs with very different tempos, or when you want to perform an extreme speed change as a special 
effect (especially effective when the range is set to 100%).

 Most experienced DJs will simply match the tempos of two songs by hand using the Speed Adjust slider, which 
is a perfectly acceptable method of matching songs (indeed, this is the way it’s been done for decades). Since it 
requires a lot of practice to hear when one song is playing faster or slower than another, those new to DJing will 
benefit from some of the extra features built into Torq. Such features include automatic beat detection, BPM 
displays, scrolling waveform displays, and automatic synchronization.