Waves Torque: Distortion Plugin

Enhance the tone of snares toms kicks or an entire drum kit in your mix with natural-sounding results that no regular pitch-shifter will allow. If you’ve tried to fix out-of-tune drums when mixing you know pitch shifters aren’t up to the task. They smear transients create artifacts and neuter acoustic drums. Powered by Waves’ proprietary Organic ReSynthesis engine Torque changes everything. Torque can change tone and formants while preserving the original drum sound’s natural attack resonance and duration—with focus trim and threshold options to further enhance your drums. Use Torque in the studio—or live when you need to get the drums right in the mix.

Help Your Drums Sit in the Mix

It’s time to fit the drums to the production—not the other way around. Tuned drums make tracks sound more professional cohesive and exciting. Got a great drum part but the pitch isn’t perfect? Now you can fix it in the mix.

Fine-Tune Quickly and Easily

Getting great drum tone with Torque is easy: Turn the big Torque control to tune the drum pitch. Adjust Thresh to determine the exact threshold level above which tuning will take place. Fine-tune attack and release times with the Speed control. Increase Trim for a thicker drum sound or decrease for a thinner tone. Done.

Focus on Your Drums’ Fundamental Frequencies

For precision control you will want to identify each drum track’s fundamental frequency area. Use the Focus control to sweep through the frequencies of your kick snare or other drum tracks; audition each frequency range in isolation and consult the visualizer in order to identify the frequency range that is most important to tune.

Tune Drums Live on Stage. Zero Latency.

Mixing live drums on stage? Now you have the luxury to tune drums that weren’t properly tuned prior to the concert—mid-show or even mid-song. Torque has zero latency and is optimized for live sound mixing.

Automate Torque for Creative Effects

Congas timbales tambourines orchestral percussion maracas—give them a new sense of pitch that flows right into a mix. For glides slides and talking drum effects assign automation to the main Torque control.

Features:

• Finally: Drums and percussion can sit perfectly in the mix
• Focus tonal changes on specific frequencies—ideal for loops
• Keeps the live feel and sound quality of acoustic drum parts
• Eliminate the complexity and hassles of drum replacers
• Give depth and power to all drum sounds including vintage analog
• Choose big or thin sounds with up to ±1 octave changes
• Ideal for individual drums but also does magic with buses and loops
• Super-low latency for live performance

Requirements:

Platform	CPU	RAM	Disk	Notes	Additional Requirement	Audio Card	Ports	Internet Required	32 Bit Support	64 Bit Support	Plugins
mac	Intel or Silicon Architecture	8	0					0	0	1	VST-3 AU AAX
windows	X64 compatible Intel or AMD CPU	8	0					0	0	1	VST-3 AAX