Hercules DJ DJ Console Portable DJ Controller/USB Interface

The DJ Console brings the tactile aspects of vinyl DJing to the digital world, with this groundbreaking new MP3/WMA/CD interface. DJ Console gives DJs a great sense of control, providing the ultimate mixing experience with endless creative possibilities. It's ideal for creating your own real time live music mixes and compilations with pro audio quality right on your desktop/laptop PC, while perfecting your skills faster than with vinyl. MP3/digital music fans can enjoy smooth background music with professional-quality sound. MP3s have never sounded this good! Club DJs, FM/Internet radio DJs, and DJs on a budget can now prepare their mixes faster and more easily than ever before, going beyond the limitations of conventional turntables with additional features like looping, cueing, search functions, and more. Users can access tens of thousands of their favorite digital tracks and find any title in seconds with no need to lug around hundreds of CDs or LPs. Fun, easy and ergonomic mixing/skratching in a dual, highly-tactile unit DJs can now instantly locate, play, mix, sample, loop, skratch and remix digital music”including MP3s, WMAs, and CDs”with Hercules' DJ Console and their desktop or laptop PC. You'll enjoy the full hands-on control of a regular turntable with a minimal learning curves, instead of using tedious keyboard shortcuts to control your audio applications. DJ Console is also perfectly suited for use under low light conditions at parties thanks to at-a-glance LED mode indicators plus backlit and phosphorescent soft rubber keys. DJ Console features 2 vinyl-style jog wheels for spinning and skratching, with finger grips for rapid, accurate song searching or speed adjustment. A crossfader offers seamless mixing between the 2 decks. 6 ergonomic potentiometers and bass/medium/treble controls deliver creative remixing on the fly. 2 rotary encoders and 2 sliders let you tweak volume and change the pitch and master tempo in real time. 28 buttons let you play/pause songs, speed music up or down for accurate mixing (pitch bend), add effects, create cue points (song positions) and loops on the fly, skip through tracks backwards or forwards, rewind or fast forward, and more. A soft rubber ministick provides mouse emulation and special effects control DJ Console comes with a complete, intuitive DJ/music software suite. Hercules' advanced communication protocol guarantees 100% compatibility with the MP3 DJ software External multichannel USB soundcard Thanks to its high-end converters, DJ Console records audio from instruments, home stereos, CD/DVD players, or other devices and plays back music with the highest audio quality. The comprehensive front and rear audio panels provide an incredible range of high-end connections including optical and coaxial digital and MIDI I/O to easily connect most analog/digital consumer devices and audio/MIDI gear! Users can remix out to amplified speakers and enjoy up to 5.1-channel surround sound (up to 6 outputs). DJs will appreciate being able to play one track for their audience via the DJ Console's speaker outputs, while listening to another track over the headphone output at the same time, to prepare the next mix. To speak to the audience, DJs can use unit's microphone input with gain control. A handy talkover button allows users to reduce the music volume so that they can be heard more easily, and an input clipping indicator avoids sound saturation. Stylish, 100% USB bus-powered, hot-plug & play portable unit Incredibly user-friendly, DJ Console is easy to install and use: simply hot-plug the unit via its USB connector and go! DJ Console is 100% USB bus-powered, with no external power supply required. Featuring excellent compatibility, DJ Console works with any PC with a USB port. If the computer has another sound card, there

A does-everything device for the digital DJ on the go!