HERCULES INPULSE 300

for VirtualDJ 2018 Last Update : October 2018

SETUP

Drivers & Firmware

Windows No driver is necessary to install for Windows computers. However an ASIO driver is available at
https://support.hercules.com/en/product/djcontrolinpulse300 If the ASIO driver is not installed, VirtualDJ will use the WASAPI driver in Audio setup.

Mac OSX: No driver is available or necessary to install for Mac OSX computers.The OS will install the necessary drivers first time the unit is connected to the computer.

Firmware: (for both Windows & Mac) No firmware update is available at the time this manual was written, but it is advised to check for any updates at Hercules Support Center https://support.hercules.com/en/product/djcontrolinpulse300

VirtualDJ 8 Setup

Download and install VirtualDJ 8 from http://www.virtualdj.com/download/index.html (in case you have not done already)

Once VirtualDJ 8 is launched, a Connect Window will appear to choose one of the available ways to login.

A Pro Infinity, a Pro Subscription or a PLUS License is required to use the Hercules DJControl Inpulse 300. Without any of the above Licenses, the controller will operate for 10 minutes each time you restart VirtualDJ.
http://www.virtualdj.com/buy/index.html

A detection window will appear next verifying the proper connection.
Click on the Use Soundcard button to allow VirtualDJ to auto-create the pre-defined audio configuration.

Click to OK

The unit is now ready to operate.

MIDI Operation.

The unit should be visible in the CONTROLLERS tab of Config and the “factory default” available/selected from the Mappings drop-down list. The factory default Mapping offers the functions described in this Manual, however those can be adjusted to your needs via VDJ Script actions.

Find more details at http://www.virtualdj.com/wiki/VDJ8script.html

AUDIO Setup

The unit has a pre-defined Audio configuration and a special button in the AUDIO tab of Config to provide that. The default audio configuration requires speakers to be connected at the rear-side Master RCA sockets and headphones at the front panel 1/4" socket.

Refer to VirtualDJ 8 Manual for alternative audio configurations http://www.virtualdj.com/manuals/virtualdj8/settings/audiosetup.html

For further software settings please refer to the User Guide of VirtualDJ 8.
http://www.virtualdj.com/manuals/virtualdj8/index.html

CONTROLS

M MASTER OUTPUT

Connect a pair of amplified speakers using standard RCA cables

H HEADPHONES SOCKET

Connect your Headphones using a 1/4 " cable or adapter

S SHIFT

Press this button down to access secondary actions as described in the SHIFT ACTION column

KEY

ACTION

SHIFT (SECONDARY) ACTION

1 PLAY

Play/Pause the track loaded to left/right deck

Play-stutter track. When pressed, track will resume playing from the previously stopped position

2 CUE

Sets current position as Temporary Cue point.
Preview track when paused while button is pressed
Jumps and stops to the Cue point when playing[

Returns to the beginning of the track

3 SYNC

Match BPM and Beat Phase with the opposite deck

Smooth pitch reset. When pressed track will gradually get its original tempo

4 LOOP IN

When not in loop, press to set current position as the beginning of a manual loop. Press and hold this button for more than 1 second to turn a 4 beats auto-loop on/off

Half the size of the loop

5 LOOP OUT

When not in loop, press to set current position as the end of a manual loop. When in loop, press to exit the loop

Double the size of the loop

6 VINYL

Enable/disable Vinyl mode. When enabled, use the upper/top surface of the jogwheel to scratch and the outer to bend. When disabled, the entire surface (upper and outer) of the jogwheel will be used for bending.

7 JOGWHEEL

Touch-sensitive jogwheel for scratching or bending (temporary speed up/down tempo) the track, depending on the Vinyl mode.

Fast seek (search) track forward/backwards

8 FX ON

Use this button to enable/disable the selected Effect to the Left/Right deck

Select the next available Effect for the Left/Right deck

9 FX KNOB

Adjust the 1st Parameter of the selected Effect for the Left/Right deck

Adjust the 3rd Parameter (if available) of the selected Effect for the Left/Right deck

10 FX DRY/WET

Adjust the 2nd Parameter (if available) of the selected Effect for the Left/Right deck

Adjust the 4th Parameter (if available) of the selected Effect for the Left/Right deck

11 QUANTIZE

Enable/disable Quantize mode on the Left/Right deck. When enabled (its led is turned on) several functions, such as loop and hotcues will be snapped to the nearest beat (or other value based on the globalQuantize VirtualDJ setting)

12 SLIP

Enable/disable Slip mode on the Left/Right deck. When enabled (its led is turned on) several functions, such as scratching, loops and hotcues will be performed temporary and when finished (released), the track will resume from the position it would have been if the action was never triggered.

13 BEAT ALIGN

These leds indicate the direction the jogwheel needs to be moved to, in order its beat-grid to match with the opposite deck. Leds will operate if:
- the BeatMatch Guide button [33] is turned on
- the Deck is not the Master-Deck (deck that is playing out live - on air)
- the deck is not playing

14 TEMPO

Adjust the tempo of the loaded track When in middle position (green led is turned on), the track plays at its original speed..

15 TEMPO ASSISTANT LEDs

When turned on, the LED will indicate the direction the Tempo fader needs to be moved in order the track to get the same BPM as the opposite one.
When a LED flashes, indicates the direction the Tempo fader needs to be moved in order the actual/hardware fader to catch the software tempo value and re-gain tempo control from the Inpulse. This can happen if the SYNC button is pressed and the track gets a tempo value different than the one the hardware fader designates.
Both LEDs will operate only when the BeatMatch Guide button [33] is enabled.
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16 PAD MODES

Set the 4 Pads to Hotcue, Roll, FX (long press of Hotcue button) or Sampler (long press of Roll button) mode. See Pads page for further details.

17 PADS

These buttons offer different functionality depending on the selected Pads mode See Pads page for further details.

These buttons offer different functionality depending on the selected Pads mode See Pads page for further details

18 CROSSFADER

When on far left position, only sound from the left deck will be heard from the Master Output. When at far right position, only the sound of the right deck will be heard from the Master Output. In all other positions, the audio signals from left/right decks will be blend.

19 VOLUME

Adjust the Volume of the Left/Right deck

20 VU METERS

The Left and Right series of LEDs indicate the pref-fader level of the Left/Right deck respectively. The 2 middle series of leds indicate the Stereo left-right level of the Master Output

21 PFL

Use these buttons to send the pre-fader audio signal of the Left/Right deck to the Headphones channel for pre-listening (connection at the front side).

22 FILTER

Use these knobs to apply a High/Low Pass Filter to the Left/Right deck. No Filter is applied (off) when the knob is at the center/middle position

23 LOW

Use these knobs to cut/boost the frequencies of the Low/Bass Equalizer Band No adjustment is made when the knob is at the middle/center position

24 MID

Use these knobs to cut/boost the frequencies of the Middle Equalizer Band No adjustment is made when the knob is at the middle/center position

25 HIGH

Use these knobs to cut/boost the frequencies of the High/Treble Equalizer Band No adjustment is made when the knob is at the middle/center position

26 GAIN

Use these knobs to adjust the pre-fader output level of the Left/Right deck When the knob is at the middle/center position, the track will be at zero dB level (or any other value set in VirtualDJ Options)

27 LOAD

Use these buttons to load the selected track from the Browser to the Left/Right deck. Double/fast-press these buttons to clone the track from the opposite deck to the Left/Right deck.

Unload the deck

28 BROWSER

Use this dial to scroll through the folders or tracks, depending on the focused Browser List.
Push the dial, to toggle focus between the Folders and Songs Lists. When focus is on the Folders List, push and hold dial down (for about 1 second) to open/close sub-folders.
The RGB led of this dial indicates the currently playing out deck (on air), blue for Left deck and red for Right deck

Push to toggle between Normal and Zoom Browser view (applies to default VirtualDJ GUIs and other custom ones that support Browser zoom

29 ASSISTANT

Use this button to select the Recommendations folder and get online suggestions based on the currently playing track. Press again to select the previously working folder.

30 MASTER VOL

Use this knob to adjust the level of the Master Output (connection at the rear panel).

31 HEADPHONES VOL

Use this knob to adjust the level of the Headphones Output (connection at the front panel).

32 MASTER PFL

Use this button to send the audio signal from the Master Output to the Headphones channel. Hardware operation, not visible in GUI or controlled from VirtualDJ

33 BEATMATCH GUIDE

Use this button to enable/disable Beat-Match Guide. When enabled, the Beat-Align [13] and Tempo assistant [15] leds will offer their described functionality

PADS

KEY

ACTION

LONG PRESS ACTION

M1 HOTCUE

Press this button to assign the 8 Pads to Hotcues mode (led will be turned on solid)

Long press (for more than 2 seconds) to set the 8 Pads to TonePlay mode (led will be flashing)

M2 ROLL

Press this button to assign the 8 Pads to Roll mode (led will be turned on solid)

Long press (for more than 2 seconds) to set the8 Pads to FX mode (led will be flashing)

M3 SLICER

Press this button to assign the 8 Pads to Slicer Roll mode (led will be turned on solid)

Long press (for more than 2 seconds) to set the 8 Pads to Slicer Loop mode (led will be flashing)

M4 SAMPLER

Press this button to assign the 8 Pads to Sampler mode (led will be turned on solid)

Long press (for more than 2 seconds) to set the 8 Pads to BeatJump mode (led will be flashing)

HOTCUE MODE

Press the HOTCUE mode button [M1] to set the Pads to Hotcue mode. The Hotcue Pads page will be also displayed on the GUI of VirtualDJ, reflecting the operation of the 8 Pads.

Hotcues Pads Page

KEY

ACTION

SHIFT (SECONDARY) ACTION

PADS 1-8

Assigns current track's position to Hotcue 1 to 8 or jumps to its position if already set

Delete the assigned Hotcue 1 to 8

ROLL MODE

Press the ROLL mode button [M2] to set the Pads to Roll mode. The Loop Roll Pads page will be also displayed on the GUI of VirtualDJ, reflecting the operation of the 8 Pads.

Loop Roll Pads Page

KEY

ACTION

SHIFT (SECONDARY) ACTION

PADS 1-8

Press and hold a Pad to trigger a Loop Roll of a pre-defined size in beats.. The track will resume playing from the position it would have been if the loop roll was never triggered.

Same action

SLICER MODE

Press the SLICER mode button [M3] to set the Pads to Slicer mode. The Slicer Pads page will be also displayed on the GUI of VirtualDJ, reflecting the operation of the 8 Pads.

Slicer Pads Page

KEY

ACTION

SHIFT (SECONDARY) ACTION

PADS 1-8

Each Pad represents a slice of the beat-grid pattern (1 beat or other size defined from the 1st Parameter of the Slicer Pads page). Press and hold a Pad to repeat-loop a part of this slice (depending on the 2nd Parameter value). The track will resume playing from the position it would have been if the slicer pad was never triggered.

Same action, with the difference that the slice is memorized.

SAMPLER MODE

Press the SAMPLER mode button [M4] to set the Pads to Sampler mode. The Sampler Pads page will be also displayed on the GUI of VirtualDJ, reflecting the operation of the 8 Pads.

Sampler Pads Page

KEY

ACTION

SHIFT (SECONDARY) ACTION

PADS 1-8

Press Pad 1 to 8 to trigger a Sample (1 to 8) of the selected Sampler Bank (1st Parameter of Sampler Pads page) The sample will be triggered depending on the selected Trigger Sampler mode (2nd Parameter of the Sampler Pads page)

Stop the playing sample. Useful when the Stutter or Un-mute trigger mode is selected

*Note: If the selected Sampler Bank has less than 9 samples, both sides of the Pads will trigger the same samples. If the selected Sampler Bank has more than 8 samples, the left side Pads will trigger Samples 1 to 8 and the right side Pads will trigger Samples 9 to 16.

TONEPLAY MODE

Press and hold (for about 1 second) the HOTCUE mode button [M1] to set the Pads to TonePlay mode. The KeyCue Pads page will be also displayed on the GUI of VirtualDJ, reflecting the operation of the 8 Pads.

KeyCue Pads Page

KEY

ACTION

SHIFT (SECONDARY) ACTION

PADS 1-8

Each Pad jumps to the currently selected Hotcue (or temporary CUE if no Hotcue is assigned) and plays and changes its musical key by a semitone value designated from the Pad's text as shown on GUI. Different values can be used by selecting a different page (2nd Parameter of the KeyCue Pads page)

Select a Hotcue for the KeyCue pads to apply to.

FX MODE

Press and hold (for about 1 second) the ROLL mode button [M2] to set the Pads to FX mode (led will be flashing). The Inpulse300 FX* Pads page will be also displayed on the GUI of VirtualDJ, reflecting the operation of the 8 Pads. The functionality of the Pads in this mode is mostly hard-coded in the Inpulse firmware and most of it cannot be changed. As a result of this hardware functionality, the Pads on the GUI do not offer any functionality if triggered from GUI, they just offer an aid showing the selected FX mode and an idea of what each Hardware pad does.

*Note: This special Pads Page will be available to select, only if the Inpulse 300 is connected.

Inpulse300 FX Pads Page

KEY

ACTION

SHIFT (SECONDARY) ACTION

PAD 1

Press and hold Pad 1 to trigger the Filter LP Effect. The pad also controls the 1st Parameter of the LP Filter effect, starting from the zero value and gradually increasing to the maximum, as long as the pad is pressed. Effect is turned on when the pad is released (momentary)

No function is assigned

PAD 2

Press and hold Pad 2 to trigger the Filter HP Effect. The pad also controls the 1st Parameter of the HP Filter effect, starting from the zero value and gradually increasing to the maximum, as long as the pad is pressed. Effect is turned on when the pad is released (momentary)

No function is assigned

PAD 3

Press Pad 3 to trigger the Reverb * Effect. The pad also assign the 1st Parameter of the Reverb effect to a certain value, and gradually fast-decreases deck's Volume to the minimum. Effect is turned on when the pad is pressed again (toggle)

No function is assigned

PAD 4

Press Pad 4 to trigger the Echo * Effect. The pad also assign the 1st Parameter of the Echo effect to a certain value, and gradually fast-decreases deck's Volume to the minimum. Effect is turned on when the pad is pressed again (toggle)

No function is assigned

PAD 5

Press and hold Pad 5 to trigger the Beat Grid Effect. The Effect is turned off when the pad is released (momentary)

No function is assigned

PAD 6

Press and hold Pad 6 to trigger the Flippin Double Effect. The Effect is turned off when the pad is released (momentary)

No function is assigned

PAD 7

Press and hold Pad 7 to perform a "Baby" Scratch effect at the current position. The Scratch is turned off when the pad is released (momentary)

No function is assigned

PAD 8

Press and hold Pad 8 to jump at the 1st assigned Hotcue and perform a "Baby" Scratch effect from that position. The Scratch is turned off when the pad is released (momentary)

No function is assigned

Note *: For best results on the Reverb and Echo Effects, it is advised to enable the Post Fader Effects setting (from VirtualDJ Settings->Options tab->fxProcessing setting to Post-fader). This will allow these Effects to continue trailing for a while, when the Volume fader is moved to the minimum position

SLICERLOOP MODE

Press and hold (for about 1 second) the SLICER mode button [M3] to set the Pads to Scratch mode. The Scratch Pads page will be also displayed on the GUI of VirtualDJ, reflecting the operation of the 8 Pads.

Scratch Pads Page

KEY

ACTION

SHIFT (SECONDARY) ACTION

PADS 1-8

Each Pad performs a scratch routine while pressed or quickly released

Opens the Scratch DNA Editor to edit the scratch routine.

BEATJUMP MODE

Press and hold (for about 1 second) the SAMPLER mode button [M4] to set the Pads to BeatJump mode. The BeatJump Pads page will be also displayed on the GUI of VirtualDJ, reflecting the operation of the 8 Pads.

BeatJump Pads Page

KEY

ACTION

SHIFT (SECONDARY) ACTION

PADS 1-8

Each Pad moves the track forward/backwards by the value in beats designated by the Pad's text on GUI. Different beat values can be applied by selecting a different page (1st Parameter of the BeatJump Pads page)

Same action

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