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Retro DVS, TORQ


Lets look at a OLD Torq Connectiv digital vinyl system that unfortnately is discontinued and is no longer supported, But I kept it because I find the software intresting. I recall liking this alot a few years back when it was available. The Timestretching were really complex. If i remember correctly it was called elastic timestretching. It was developed by m-audio. The vinyl system was called TORQ and was sold as a package with a connectiv soundcard, a pair of timecode vinyls and timecode cd's along with the software. They also made dj-controllers for the Torq software.

This DVS version like other systems it featured  stereo ins for both decks and stereo out for both channel to the mixer.



It had a really powerful realtime processing capability and supported heavy scratching with wav's.
The software supported both win and mac. The user interface in Torq had a dark ambient theme.
It had a browser for navigating to folders in the bottom and on the top an beatmatching waves. tracks for both decks, locators for play stop cue etc. loop function, samplerslots, midi capability and more.

I managed to run the old TORQ software. Its the last version before it was cancelled in 2017 with version 2.0.2.
Since its no longer supported from the companys website I cant get it to install completely, so its in demo mode. But enough to save a jpg.


Looking at the timecodevinyls I noticed that it said on the label that the timecode were from the ms. pink DVS vinyl system. The vinyl had low latency, The soundcard is still being found under the legacy drivers from the website, but unfortunetly the TORQ dont. 

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