Hercules DJControl Inpulse 300 & Djay Pro 2 on mac : all functions supported ?

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Hello Algoriddim community !

I plan to buy & use a Hercules DJControl Inpulse 300 controller with Djay Pro 2 (on Mac), but I hesitate a little. Are all controller functions supported by MidiMapping? (I’m thinking in particular of BeatMatch and BeatAlign …).

Do you have a similar configuration?

Thank you in advance for your feedback!

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Any particular reason for picking the Hercules DJControl Inpulse 300 .

I’d have to say I’d rather opt to select a officially supported controller. Also pick a brand like Pioneer

All controllers that have midi can work, but I’d opted for officially supported controllers every time. I don’t think the controller feature of Beat Align will work correctly on the Hercules controller unless it’s officially supported & that feature isn’t in the djay software as I’m aware so it may not be supported anyway.

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Surely some of Pioneers lower end controllers come in at same price point.

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Doesn’t any officially supported Pioneer controller just work.

No need for sound card in the controller, it uses the Mac soundcard

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Hi RyuOnline,

Thank you for your reply !

It seems to me that this controller is one of those officially supported, since the last update of DJay Pro 2 (see https://www.algoriddim.com/hardware » "All natively supported MIDI controllers ").

Reasons for picking the Hercules DJControl Impulse 300 are:
• small budget
• one of the first price with a sound card

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Yes, the DDJ-200, but it’s smaller and without soundcard… :-/

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[Update]

I had some answers from Hercules UX Team (on http://www.herculesdjmixroom.com/fr/f…) :

  1. DJControl Inpulse 300 is natively supported in djay Pro 2 Mac (no need to import the mapping since djay Pro 2.0.12).
    https://www.algoriddim.com/djay-pro-m…

  2. DJControl Inpulse 300 is a controller, so it can control only the features already existing in the DJ software: there is

  • no beatmatch guide (tempo guide & beat align guide) in djay Pro 2,
  • no assistant in djay pro2,
    so, in djay Pro 2, DJcontrol Inpulse 300 cannot control beatmatch guide or assistant
  • the key labelled Assistant control the automix instead of an assistant,
  • and the beatmatch guides vumeters are not used.
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