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I saw the Torq Exponent in action this weekend and chatted it up the the DJ to find out more about it. This looks to be the ideal control deck for laptop DJs, so I was curious to find out about the things the ads and reviews don't tell you. Here are few things that I found out:
The bad:
- The mouse control is super touchy and there is no way to adjust it
- The crossfader is not user-replaceable. When it wears out, that's it.
- It's huge. Seriously... this thing is big.
- The sound card is iffy. It worked fine for his set, but he brought a second sound card just in case
- The included Torq DJ software is terrible. He was running Traktor instead.
The good:
- The mouse touch pad becomes an x/y Kaos style controller for effect at the touch of a button
- Nice large platters with touch sensitivity (similar to Vinyl mode on Pioneer CDJs)
- All buttons are back lit and pulse with the beat of the loaded track
I saw the Torq Exponent in action this weekend and chatted it up the the DJ to find out more about it. This looks to be the ideal control deck for laptop DJs, so I was curious to find out about the things the ads and reviews don't tell you. Here are few things that I found out:
The bad:
- The mouse control is super touchy and there is no way to adjust it
- The crossfader is not user-replaceable. When it wears out, that's it.
- It's huge. Seriously... this thing is big.
- The sound card is iffy. It worked fine for his set, but he brought a second sound card just in case
- The included Torq DJ software is terrible. He was running Traktor instead.
The good:
- The mouse touch pad becomes an x/y Kaos style controller for effect at the touch of a button
- Nice large platters with touch sensitivity (similar to Vinyl mode on Pioneer CDJs)
- All buttons are back lit and pulse with the beat of the loaded track
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Re: Torq Exponent
Thu, March 13, 2008 - 9:14 AMSome other thoughts on the Exponent:
Torq is the only s/w that seems to support the backlit controls. Although there is promise from the deckadance team to add the necessary midi instructions.
There is an a/b toggle that steps the midi notes so you can use it with Traktor in 4 deck mode.
The pads, pots and sliders are very responsive -- but the crossfader is not really intended for heavy use.
Torq is buggy, the library function is kludgy and whenever a track is striped you end up with a file in the same directory as the song -- seriously clogging up your music library.
The sound card issues seemed to resolve themselves when I moved from XP to OSX.
