The Virtual Vinyl by Numark is a complete DJ solution which allows you to scratch, mix, and control your digital music with a user friendly interface.
Experts rate Virtual Vinyl 5 to be the most reliable and bug free DJ hardware and software all in one solution on the market. It is getting great reviews because it lets you scratch, mix and sample digital audio and video files using any analog turntable, CD player or HD player.
Virtual Vinyl is built based on the famous CUE 5 DJ software. Included is a custom USB audio interface, time code CDs and vinyl records, and more. The way this works is you can use your regular turntable or CD player and then you use the included control vinyl, or control discs, and you can scratch, control tempo, use seamless looping functions, effects, hot cues, and a load of other great features.
With the Virtual vinyl, you will simplify your set-up and utilize features you have only dreamed of. All you need to get started is the Virtual Vinyl and a computer or Laptop and you will be ready to start scratching, and mixing. You can connect DJ headphones to monitor your mixes, and you can easily connect to any audio or video system. Virtual Vinyl also makes it easy to professionally broadcast your mixes on the internet which is a great feature.
If you do karaoke than you can take advantage of the virtual vinyl's karaoke support. You can play back CD+G karaoke discs. Another bonus that makes this product better than competing interface packages is that this will allow you to also mix video in addition to audio.
Overall, we highly recommend this product. Everyone who buys this writes amazing reviews on it. Another thing that is important is that the manufacture has great support for this product, so if you have any questions, or need help getting things set up, you will be able to talk to the best audio engineers who can help you with everything you need.
Features:
- Mix flawlessly with uncompromising vinyl control
- Improved timecode engine with new timecode plug-ins
- Dedicated audio interface included to insure optimal performance and simple setup
- Mix, scratch and interchange audio or video
- Smart Database Management – Automatically checks database integrity at launch and fixes errors by cleaning out missing and removed files
- Global Search – Files are automatically added to a global search database allowing you to quickly find files stored on multiple folders and drives
- Industry-leading stability and reliability
- Visual waveform overlay of beats – Increases visual clarity
- Multiple user interfaces to fit your mixing style
- Built-in video and audio mixers with multiple video transitions and effects
- Choose from a variety of built–in effects, add VST plug-ins, and create beat–matched loops and samples on the fly
- Karaoke player with enhanced CD+G File Detection allows you to easily show all of your karaoke files in a single click
- Output video to a projector, TV, or monitor
- Improved Side List - Automatically lists tracks added to a deck but never played. Several new keyboard and controller shortcuts are now available for the sidelist
- Upgraded searching - Streamlines track management
- Improved ID3 Tag Support – Cue now allows you to view, search, and sort up to 9 different tag categories
- Improved smart auto-mix playlist – Allows you to automatically beatmix songs in your playlist using the best mix method for each track, and using only one deck!
- Cover art browser allows you to automatically download and display cover artwork
- Automatic BPM Detection works with any style of music
- Built–in visual output for audio files
- Video Plug-ins allow you to add more powerful effects and titles to your video presentation
- Video Clip Player for “sampler style” playback of video clips
- Slide show plug-in for video output
- FreeFrame plug-in compatible
- Innovative 12–bank sample and loop control
- Works with Numark's DJ|iO, multi–channel sound cards, USB mixers, and built–in audio cards
- Compatible with external DJ controllers, including Numark iCDX and DMC2 and Total Control
- Easily mappable to any external MIDI controller
- Improved Play History Management – Automatically records what you played and when
- Improved Playlist management – Playlists are now stored in a separate folder in your documents directory for easy management and portability
- Upgraded Column Support – Select which columns you want to display in the browser, and in what order you want them to appear
- Filter Folders – “Smart” folders automatically update their contents based on your filtering preferences. Show all files of a certain type, year, genre, number of plays, location and much much more!
- Installation paths for full Microsoft VISTA compliance
- Integration with third-party applications (Compatible with Crates and iTunes Playlists)
Specifications:
Minimum System Requirements (PC):
- Windows XP (32-bit) or Vista (32-bit)
- P4 3 GhZ computer
- DirectX Video Card such as: Nvidia GO 7600 (256MB) or higher or ATI 9800 or higher
- 1 GB RAM
- Available USB port (USB 2.0)
- 200 MB free on the hard-drive
Minimum System Requirements (MAC):
- Mac OSX 10.4.7 or higher
- Mac/Intel Core Duo 2.0 GHz or higher
- 1 GB RAM of higher
- Available USB port (USB 2.0)
- 200 MB free on the hard-drive
Supported File Types:
- MP3
- WAV
- WMA
- AAC
- OGG
- VoB
- WMV
- DVD
- DIVX
- MPEG
- AVI
- Karaoke [CD+G]