Hercules: DJ Control Impulse 500

Hercules DJControl Inpulse 500 is the new DJ controller that lets you achieve your ambitions! Created for Serato DJ Lite and DJUCED to help you get started DJing, refine your skills and perform in front of audiences, DJControl Inpulse 500 has a professional design with a sturdy metal backing plate, and tons of great features: four extendable/retractable non-slip feet to elevate your mixing, a hardware mixer for the audio inputs, a dedicated Filter/FX area with awesome effects, two large jog wheels with touch detection for scratching, 16 backlit rubber RGB pads, helpful light guides for mixing with total confidence... and so much more. 

You can even mix with music streaming services, featuring millions of tracks — including TIDAL and SoundCloud GO+ in Serato DJ Lite, and Beatport LINK, Beatsource LINK and Qobuz in DJUCED.

Audio

Built-in audio interface 

Built-in Velvet Sound DSP from AKM: processing audio inputs and outputs

- Master output (speakers): 2 x 1/4” / 6.35 mm jack + 2 x RCA

- Headphones output: 1/8” / 3.5 mm stereo mini-jack + 1/4” / 6.35 mm stereo jack

- Auxiliary input: 2 x RCA + 1/8” / 3.5 mm stereo mini-jack

- Microphone input: balanced 1/4” / 6.35 mm jack

Audio resolution: 44.1 kHz / 24-bit

Controls Per Deck

Control per deck:

- Play, Cue, Shift, Sync

- 2 x 8 soft pads with RGB backlighting

- 8 pads x 8 modes (hot cue, loop, slicer ….)

- jog wheels with touch detection (diameter of jog wheels: 5.5” )

- Loop: In / Out + loop encoder

- Modes: Vinyl, (+ Slip and Quantize in DJUCED and in Serato DJ Pro)

- Beatmatch guide

Controls On Mixer

General:

- 1 crossfader with curve adjustment

- Master volume knob, headphones volume knob and Cue/Mix knob

- Microphone volume knob with High EQ knob and Low EQ knob

- Auxiliary volume knob and filter knob

-  2 VU-meters + Master VU meter

- Filter/effects rack with 4 effects buttons and 2 filter knobs

Per deck : 

- 1 filter knob

- 3 EQ knobs

- 1  gain knob

-  1 volume fader

- 1 VU meter

Music library controls: Rotary encoder + 2 Load buttons + Assistant button

Beatmatch Guide

Tempo guide: light guide alongside each tempo fader

Beat Align guide: light guide underneath each jog wheel

IMA

IMA (Intelligent Music Assistant)

– The Assistant in DJUCED suggests well-suited upcoming tracks to be played from your music library, and in Beatport LINK and Beatsource LINK as well. Enable the Assistant to launch Autoplay in Serato DJ Lite.

– The Energy feature in DJUCED helps you select tracks according to the energy level for your party