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Hercules Hercules DJ Control w/ Air Control

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Hercules DJ Control w/ Air Control

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Hercules DJ Control w/ Air Control
Hercules DJ Control w/ Air Control
Hercules DJ Control w/ Air Control
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The Hercules DJ Control AIR is a two deck DJ controller with 2 pressure sensitive jog wheels, 8 velocity sensitive pads, and the exclusive AIR contact-less control module for complete control over mix, sync, and effects. Touch sensitive jog wheels provide intuitive switching between scratch, pitch bend, and browsing within tracks. The 8 velocity sensitive pads control the sampler, loops, and effects. Pads can be set as on/off or gradual controls and the inner backlight shows pad activation. Hercules AIR control is a contact-less sensor that lets you control features with a wave of your hand and works under all lighting conditions. The DJ Control Air features on-board sound card with a 1/8 inch (3.5mm) stereo mini jack for the main output and a 1/4 inch stereo headphone jack for cue/preview.

Air control
Air stands for Adjustment by InfraRed: it is a contactless control.
- The DJ places his or her hand flat over the infrared beam.
- The controller calculates the distance between the sensor and the hand, and converts it into a gradual MIDI command.
- This MIDI command modulates a setting in the DJ software.

8 Pads
2 sets of 4 pads control loops, sampler and effects commands.
- The DJ taps on the pads with his or her fingertips to send commands such as looping, sampler or effects.
- The pads light up when touched.
- In addition to a binary On/Off command, each pad can transfer velocity information to modulate the command.
- For example: in sampler mode, the velocity can control the volume of a sample's playback. The playback volume depends on how soft or how hard the DJ taps on the pad

Pressure-Detecting Jog Wheels
The jog wheels detect the pressure from the user's hand. With scratch mode enabled, the jog wheels scratch when the hand's weight is detected, and stop scratching when the hand's weight is no longer detected. This allows the DJ to:
- Stop playback by pressing on the jog wheel.
- Restart playback by lifting up his or her hand.
- Scratch by turning the jog wheel while pressing down, and stop scratching by lifting up his or her hand.
- Bend the pitch (if playback is on) / browse within tracks (if playback is off) by turning the jog wheels using their outer ring, to avoid applying downward pressure.
- With scratch mode disabled, the jog wheels bend the pitch or browse within tracks when the jog wheels are turned, regardless of the pressure applied.

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A bang for you Buck!!!!

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This controller goes above and beyond for what you would expect in a 170$ controller. The Beat pads that not only control the effects act as a sampler, the loop cropping and chopping is SO simple you can make build ups on the spot. The Wheels are well made, lots of knobs to play around with. is kinda tiny but that really isnt a bad thing. since what it an do is beastly. comes with a program, that also goes BEYOND its price range. It is made for this controller and has a step sequencer as well as a sampler presetter. also you can program it to map out the locations of certain parts on the track with ease. great entry level to advanced level skilled mixers. Worth the money.
Posted by P3numbr4 on Jun 19, 2012
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