NO. You need ANOTHER sound card with an input to connect the record-out of your mixer too. I too was dissapointed M-Audio didn't think to add in a 3rd input for this purpose.

Does your computer have a line-in available? With the right converter, you could use that...

Note that you'll also need to run a different recording application in the background to do this, Torq provides no mechanism to record external sound. You can download Audacity for free and it will do what you need.

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Originally posted by bluelimitd Greetings, I received Torq Conectiv for Christmas and have been using it religiously ever since. I believe I am ready to record a mix, however I am not able to figure out how to record when using external mixer mode. My setup is a Numark mixer, two Numark TTX turntables with time coded vinyl, and the Torq software. I can get it to record when the software is in internal mixer mode, but it does not seem to work when in external mixer mode. Is there something I am doing wrong, or does it simply not work in external mixer mode? If this is the case, is there a work-around? Cheers, Tyler

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Originally posted by Ryan0751 NO. You need ANOTHER sound card with an input to connect the record-out of your mixer too. I too was dissapointed M-Audio didn't think to add in a 3rd input for this purpose. Does your computer have a line-in available? With the right converter, you could use that... Note that you'll also need to run a different recording application in the background to do this, Torq provides no mechanism to record external sound. You can download Audacity for free and it will do what you need.

Arse, oh well. I guess I have options available. What if I use another laptop to record?

When you say line-in, do you mean the mini headphone jack? I have some RCA to Mini converters I could use.

Yep exactly. That'll work. It's what I do.

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Originally posted by bluelimitd Arse, oh well. I guess I have options available. What if I use another laptop to record? When you say line-in, do you mean the mini headphone jack? I have some RCA to Mini converters I could use.

Not the headphone jack, the line in jack. It looks like the headphone jack...but not the same thing. The headphone jack outputs sound, the line in jack takes in sound. There's also your microphone jack that also probably looks the same - it records sound, but is noisy as hell and I wouldn't recommend using it.

That may have been obvious, but just making sure.

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Originally posted by IntegraR0064 Not the headphone jack, the line in jack. It looks like the headphone jack...but not the same thing. The headphone jack outputs sound, the line in jack takes in sound. There's also your microphone jack that also probably looks the same - it records sound, but is noisy as hell and I wouldn't recommend using it. That may have been obvious, but just making sure.

So I was just going to come up here and post about this. I tried to use my microphone jack and it recorded so unbelievably loud that you could not hear anything except static. I cannot find a line in jack anywhere on my laptop. All I see is microphone and headphones. My desktop PC has a line in jack, but not my laptop that I can see...am I missing something?

A microphone input has a pre-amp on it to boost a mic signal. Running a line-input (which is higher voltage) into that will cause the distortion you are hearing.

Not all laptops have line-ins, unfortunately. You should be able to find an inexpensive ($30 ish) USB line-input device.

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Originally posted by bluelimitd So I was just going to come up here and post about this. I tried to use my microphone jack and it recorded so unbelievably loud that you could not hear anything except static. I cannot find a line in jack anywhere on my laptop. All I see is microphone and headphones. My desktop PC has a line in jack, but not my laptop that I can see...am I missing something?