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There’s no spinning back or scratching on it (well, there is, but you won’t do it twice) as opposed to the Vestax which is great in this respect with its responsive, clever dual-purpose platters and high-resolution Midi. The jog wheels are horrible to use against those on the Vestax, and the Hercules has one or two bad design faults – for instance, the kills (which, by the way, I miss terribly on the Vestax) aren’t lit, so there’s no visual way of knowing when they’re on – but after an hour it was perfectly usable and I played my best set in that particular venue for a while on the thing, so thumbs up there.
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It is heavy, aluminium, and the buttons are built to last. Some thoughts on the Hercules RMX – It’s actually well made like the Vestax VCI-300, if clunky. The controls don’t send any Midi information until you use them though, so when I moved the master volume slightly, it jumped up in volume about ten-fold – a little scary but quickly corrected! Hercules RMX vs Vestax VCI-300 It isn’t anywhere near as intuitive as the Vestax VCI-300 / Serato ITCH combination, which isn’t surprising as that’s a custom pairing, but it was OK. Having hit the config and set it up for the Hercules, it actually worked pretty much straight away.
Hercules rmx and traktor pro software#
I turned up at the venue half an hour early to give myself time for a quick practise, booted up Virtual DJ (it’s my backup DJ software anyway, but I haven’t used it for months), downloaded and installed the Hercules RMX drivers, and plugged it in. I thought I’d post a few thoughts after my first night using this equipment. The Hercules RMX: A third of the price of the Vestax VCI-300, and well built to boot.ĭue to my usual Vestax VCI-300 being off to the service centre for some TLC, I find myself currently using a borrowed Hercules DJ Console RMX controller using Virtual DJ 6 rather than my preferred Vestax VCI-300 / Serato ITCH setup.