AHHHH - Final Scratch, CD J's or Ableton

[Johnny-come-lately]

I have a question that I would very much appreciate an answer to: does M-Audio have a forum? I will admit to searching for one the other day and coming up empty so if I missed it and it is painfully obviously please feel free to point and laugh at me while you point me in the right direction.

I ask because I am intrigued by Torque and would like to follow it for a little while after it is released. Ultimately it is not the mixing platform that I plan on settling on but seeing as it is inexpensive and I already own two Technics and a good enough mixer I might be content for a little while longer just playing with this thing. I don’t care for scratching and wouldn’t be doing that with Torque but I have been beat matching for some 15+ years now so I feel pretty comfortable with that if you know what I mean.

What I have liked best about Torque so far is the initial screen shot that they showed for the product announcement gave me a chance to look everything over real good and it made a lot of since to me where many of the mixing software screen shots that I seen in the past quickly don’t make since to me after I get past the obvious.

[Dj-Grobe]

ONE WORD: ABLETON

[glitchrock-buddha]

nope torqs not that way, it's just like serato, but cheaper, with better xtra features great fx great on board sampler, better sound quality, and rewires into live. no weird routing scheme to speak of

So the torque device plugs straight into your mixer then I guess eh?

So it's like having two soundcards? So what's the point of having rewire then? You're taking the audio input from your mixer to a track in ableton. I guess rewire would only be handy if you're using a midi controller for levels rather than a mixer. But for scratching you'd still need the mixer. Am I right? Does the torque hardware actually send the audio from the torque software?

grb

[djadonis206]

*I don't really want to mix with Ableton cause well, it's cheating and the novelty wears off - quick

actually, i will disagree heartily with you here. i have been using ableton for djing dubstep (which is ridiculously hard to get on vinyl in the states, plus is not always as mixable as techno, which i normally spin). i have been using my own loops, setting loops on the songs themselves, using eqs as filters and to isolate specific frequencies across different songs, and using mutes as cuts to keep things varied. plus varying vst effects assigned to my uc33 for tweaking...

i am actually finding a whole WORLD of possibility each and every time i play. and it's actually having an interesting influence on my vinyl djing, because i am thinking more creatively about that now too.

so what i am saying, i guess, is that it will be as cool as how much energy you are willing to put into making it fresh and new. if you think of it EXACTLY like turntable djing...yes it will be boring. but if you realize just how much possiblity is there...then you will move forward with it.

I've been downloading tracks and playing them in LIVE - coming to terms that it's more than BEATMATCHING - It is a work in progress though

but I love my PITCH CONTROL