HerculesDJControl Inpulse 300 - 2 tracks with 16 pads and sound card

I am coming from vinyl turntables to this. It really is a lot easier to learn on vs vinyl. Vinyl takes a lot of skill to get good at it and I think that is a big barrier. I went from basic mixing on vinyl to being able to easily do more advanced mixes.It means that it is a lot easier for anyone to get into and be good at it. The impulse 200 has some great features like the beat guide for beat and tempo matching to allow you to build skills and eventually get to the point where you can drop on the platers and manual beat match by ear if you want. The whole point of the product is an entry level learning experience bundled with a free tutorial that really helps.I learned a lot of things from the course that have helped me improve. The djuced software is great at giving a full experience and the ability to record which is essential in becoming better. Serato lite doesn't give you that option and I know there are work arounds but I think to start with you can't go wrong trying djuced.People say you should go with Serato because it is industry standard but if you know how to DJ I can't really see a problem with having to learn to use Serato later, loops, effects, samples and other features won't change and will be similar in controlling.The quality is great for the price and the up faders feel really nice. The one thing that is annoying for manual tempo matching is the short pitch faders. I am use to really long throw ones on decks but these need two hands to pin point adjust which is not great.Update 2022: I moved software as I switched to mixxx on Linux but although it mapped the controller no issue it has a lot of bugs and crashes which could be down to hardware. Really struggling to mix quickly and tempo match on the go, again tempo sliders are really hard to use and you end up just syncing the two tracks together out of frustration.

I chose this product from a well established name, Hercules as I have always wanted to try out one of there affordable controller that does everything also have all the latest and more functions that what I actually use at the moment which is pioneer controller with full version of serato DJ. I wanted something different so chose the Hercules inpulse 300 which comes with DJUCED software. After having difficulty with my tracks cutting out when I loaded a track, after doing exactly what I was told to do to get everything set up. I was ready to send it back, but I persisted. After getting the latest update from DJUCED software the controller started to work fine, my tracks no longer had a glitch when I load my songs, I was very happy and love the little controller which is easy to learn and navigate around, I have no major software crashes as yet, but we will see. Overall a very good controller I love the look the feel, and learning all what it does, just remember to follow all the instructions and tutorials you will learn a lot from them.

This DJ set now proudly stands in our daughter’s bedroom .. gathering dust. She has DJ apps on her iPads and throroughtly enjoys creating tracks in that manner. Therefore we through it a nice idea to get her in to the real thing through this affordable and apparently easy to understand DJ table. But she has only used it twice and got pretty bored by it. So far our dinner parties or summer patio lounge sessions have not been audibly enhanced with life DJ music. And by now I know it will never be the case. So far I have been loathe to dig int o the manual and help her out a bit. With some foresight and suspicion, I have kept the box and this set will probably end up on an auction site soon.Having said that, the set looks to be of good quality and works well. We have connected it to several laptops (Mac and Chromebook), a standalone guitar amplifier and our high-end surround sound system - with the latter this worked only up to a point unfortunately as it started to has issues with the bass booster, that I had to switch off. The free software is easy to access and very helpful to get you going, though I would have preferred some more included printed instructions and reference of what each button actually does. The instruction video’s are intuitive. Of course as step up DJ set the options and functionalities are a little limited. But as a non-expert in the world of DJ-ing I think its a good product that probably has all the basic features to get you going. It arrived well packaged and the whole thing looks quite durable.

I used to bedroom dj'ing a lot back in the early 2000's a lot of but things have been changed so did my musical taste.Latley i started to mixing again just for kill my boredom.i never used any DJ gear exept a really basic Behringer mixer hooked on a pc.I started to looking for some cheap solution because i really didn't want to spend a $hiload of money for dj gear just for myself.So i choosed this controller,really basic and it has everything if you want to learn the basics.Gives you a really good feeling just using is,like spinning the jogweels and setting the knobs etc.So really-really fun.I using on Linux with Mixxx software,works just fine,except the beatmach guide where the controller helps if you have to fine tune on a jogweel forward or backward.(but that's for beginners (lol) i don't miss it personally,you get more experience if you listen it carefully)So yeah really fun little toy for bedroom dj'ing or house parties with friends.One of the cool feature is jogwheel top is touch sensitive (or something like that) so it only works if you spin the top of it,but if you want to adjust the jogwheel with touching the side of it,it's not working.The only thing i miss is led of the audio levels (which the 300 series has) becuase the Mixxx software i'm using it not perfectly realiable in that part.