My friend uses Torq and M-Audio Xponent, and just went on tour with it and plays at home with it. No problem.

For whatever reason, when he plays with another friend and I at a particular venue, it malfunctions. Every time.

The problem is that while the track is playing, touching the jog wheel and spinning it only causes the track to pitch bend. The proper function should be that the track stops and is adjusted (like vinyl mode).

He's played with us several times, and every time this happens. He takes it home, and it works fine.

Any suggestions on what the problem could be?

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Originally posted by kadomony My friend uses Torq and M-Audio Xponent, and just went on tour with it and plays at home with it. No problem. For whatever reason, when he plays with another friend and I at a particular venue, it malfunctions. Every time. The problem is that while the track is playing, touching the jog wheel and spinning it only causes the track to pitch bend. The proper function should be that the track stops and is adjusted (like vinyl mode). He's played with us several times, and every time this happens. He takes it home, and it works fine. Any suggestions on what the problem could be?

Sounds pretty simple, but what decks does he play on at the troublesome venue?
I'm assuming he's playing on cdjs seeing as you said jog wheel.

Sounds like there's a setting/something else wrong with the deck he's using at that venue.

At first I thought the deck he was using is just set to cdj mode instead of vinyl mode. Hence the pitch bending when spinning the deck... but that's too simple.

Do both decks mess up on him or is it only one of them? Are the decks wired up directly to the mixer or do they go through some kind of patch?

He's using the M-Audio Xponent controller with Torq on his laptop.

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Originally posted by kadomony He's using the M-Audio Xponent controller with Torq on his laptop.

Muhhhhhh, sorry I should have known the Xponent was the controller..

Well, I'm stumped now as well. That's bizarre! Nothing changes obviously as it's the same laptop and same setup. All you're doing is plugging the outputs into the mixer at the club..

Random. Hopefully someone else with more experience with Torq might have an idea why it's doing that.

Seriously, it's totally baffling. We thought there might be something wrong with the power strip we were using (too many devices plugged in?), so we plugged the controller directly into the wall outlet and still had the same problem.

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there is a button on the top of the jogwheel. it has to be lit up for it to be in vinyl mode. thats the only thing i can think of. i bet this is the problem. even if the software says cd/vinyl the button still has to be lit up on the xpo

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Originally posted by bigherm there is a button on the top of the jogwheel. it has to be lit up for it to be in vinyl mode. thats the only thing i can think of. i bet this is the problem. even if the software says cd/vinyl the button still has to be lit up on the xpo

I'm pretty sure he looked at that, but will double check to make sure. Don't understand why it would be functioning in vinyl mode everywhere except when we play together at this one venue.

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Yeah he's already checked that.

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Very bizarre. I've used Torq for years now but never owned the Xponent so I'm not really sure what's going on.

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Originally posted by MayM this happened to my friend once

With no resolve I'm assuming.

He takes it home, and it works fine.