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Vestax VCI-300 (No Longer Available)Item ID: VCI300USB DJ Controller with 4 Inputs, 4 Outputs, and Serato ITCH software - Mac/PC 
Sorry, the Vestax VCI-300 is no longer available. We've left this page up for reference only. Check out the great alternatives on this page or call toll-free (800) 222-4700 to speak with a Sweetwater Sales Engineer about similar products. From Our Research Team:The VCI-300 Lets You Start DJing Now!The VCI-300 DJ controller from Vestax not only gives you superb tactile command over your music, it also comes along with a copy of the acclaimed Serato ITCH software for professional DJing straight out of the box. All you need is a laptop, a set of headphones, and the VCI-300 and you're ready to hit the stage. The 4-in/4-out VCI-300 can control over 90 parameters and functions within ITCH using high-resolution MIDI signals. Plus, the jog wheel is fully torque-adjustable and you can even tweak each of the Vestax VCI-300's fader curves.Vestax VCI-300 USB DJ Controller and Audio Interface at a Glance:
Precision control over Serato ITCH The VCI-300 ships with a full version of popular Serato ITCH DJ software and gives you precision control over tons of parameters. Via MIDI signals sent through USB, you can take charge of more than 90 controls and functions within ITCH. In fact, the pulse resolution of the new VCI-300 jog wheel is four times higher than the VCI-100 so you can have even more mastery over your sound. 4-in/4-out audio interface with emergency thru switch You get one stereo input (RCA), one mic input, and two stereo outputs (master L/R, monitor L/R) with the Vestax VCI-300 - and the onboard D/A and A/D converters deliver high quality 24-bit stereo. What's more, there's also a built-in safety feature in the way of an Emergency Thru Switch located on the rear panel. If something funky were to happen to your laptop mid-performance you can just flip the switch, plug-in the optional adapter, and play music through your external CD or MP3 player. Adjustable jog wheel torque and fader curves Vestax has improved the jog wheels on the VCI-300, making them lighter in weight and with fully adjustable torque. You can also adjust the fader curve of each of the VCI-300's faders so it suits the characteristics of your mixing style. Vestax VCI-300 USB DJ Controller and Audio Interface Features:
Minimum System Requirements: Macintosh
Windows XP
Windows Vista
The Vestax VCI-300 is a powerful software DJ solution! VCI-300 Image Gallery
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ReviewsA Lot of Fun for Amateur DJs... and Maybe Suitable for a Few Professionals
by Paul R. Potts from Ann Arbor, MI
I was a radio DJ in the late 1980s in college, back when radio stations still used vinyl, and in 2000 I learned how to run a dance party using Pioneer CDJ-800s and a Pioneer mixer -- the rugged units ... read more [+]with the big jog wheels. CDs were a little easier to work with than vinyl, and I got reasonably good at beat-matching, but it was always tricky. Somewhere along the way I got married, had three kids, and the decks and Pioneer mixer were put away, then sold off. Nine years later, I was invited to put together a small dance party, so it was a good excuse to try out the latest in dance technology.
August 12, 2009 Music Background: Amateur guitarist, recording engineer, producer, DJ Anyway... this thing is basically two products in one: it's a USB sound card, with a mic input and aux input, and two 1/4" TS/phono inputs. It draws power from the USB port on my Mac Pro or MacBook and thus doesn't need a power supply, although I'm told one is available if your computer can't supply enough power. It's also a big MIDI controller, and under MacOS X it shows up as a class-compliant MIDI device. The basic features are two jog wheels, play/pause and cue buttons for the two virtual "decks," a cross fader, and two channel faders. There are two three-band rotary EQs, trim controls, pitch sliders, and a slew of buttons: buttons to control three loops for each deck, and buttons to control an "autoloop" function. Aside from the EQ, there are no effects, although Vestax has announced an outboard effects controller to work with the VCI-300. Physically, the unit feels fairly solidly built. It's not a Pioneer CDJ-1000, but then again, it doesn't cost $2500 and you don't need two of them, and I'm really enjoying the possibilities offered by having the entire music collection on my computer, with no CDs involved. The jog wheels are comfortable and sensitive, and you can adjust their stiffness. The faders don't feel as bomb-proof as Mackie or Allen and Heath gear, but they are serviceable. The lights are great -- you might at first think they look a bit cheesy, but they are actually extremely functional: they change color to indicate what mode they are in, and they will really help you in a dark DJ booth. You will want to immediately get a hard case or a heavily padded laptop-style bag of some kind. You don't want to arrive at a gig with a knob broken off or a fader bent. A couple of minor gripes about the hardware prevent me from giving the unit a 5-star rating. I would have preferred balanced TRS outputs. It isn't stated in the documentation whether these are meant to be used with +4 dBu or -10 dBu inputs, but experimentation with the inputs of my Apogee Ensemble suggests that -10 dBu works best. For $900 I expect "pro" level connections in addition to the phono connectors, which I'd only use when nothing else was available. Another thing that makes this hardware feel less than professional: there is no calibration on the meters, and there is no calibration on the trim knobs or master output knobs. Is the 3:00 setting equal to 0 dB, with some gain available past that? Or do they only cut, meaning that to get maximum dynamic range you would leave them all the way up? The manual is entirely silent on this subject, and that makes it feel like a consumer-grade device rather than something a professional would rely on. I would happily have paid ! an extra $100 for these upgrades. That said, the DACs seem clean enough; the outputs are low in noise; the headphone amplifier built in is very loud, capable of driving high-end DJ cans with very deep bass; I was not able to hear noticeable clipping on the outputs even when everything was driven at full. Now it's time to talk about how this thing really works. The real strength of this product is the degree of integration between the included Serato ITCH software and this unit. ITCH is a very nice package. I've only managed to crash it once, and it has been updated since. It gives you a fantastic scrolling view of your track's waveforms, as well as several very cool visual tools to help you beat-match. The fit and finish on the software's user interface is very refined. One of the best parts of the software is Serato's pitch-shift algorithms: you can sync tracks and adjust their BPM while keeping the track in its original key. Minor adjustments leave the track sounding almost pristine, although if you push it too far you will start to hear audio artifacts. Beat-matching dance tracks on this thing is a joy. You can automatically sync the BPM, and you can use a key press to "pull" the tracks into alignment, and then use one of several different visual views to keep the beats i! n alignment using the jog wheels. It's a huge improvement over trying to cajole your ears into telling you which track is falling behind or pulling ahead. I have a few minor quibbles with the software. There are situations where it would be very useful to drive the audio output to a different device -- for example, the output of my Apogee Ensemble or a virtual device like the software audio server Jack. But ITCH, unlike most Mac audio applications, won't let you change the audio routing. I'd also like to see some minor alterations to features: you can supposedly configure ITCH to do different things when it first loads a track into a deck: pause at the first cue point, but I'd like to see some additional options, and it doesn't seem to always do quite what I want. I need to experiment a bit more. There's an active forum for ITCH users and I'll make some recommendations there. The manual is serviceable, but quite bare-bones. You'll learn most of what you need to know by experimenting with the software. For the most part, just about everything works in a pretty obvious and easy-to-remember way. That's a sign of good user interface design and testing. Overall, I highly recommend this little device. It's a very nice, well-integrated package and I've been having a great time with it. For hardcore professionals, you might want something a little more rugged, with +4 dBu outputs, but you'll have to pay a lot more for it, and the solution is not likely to be quite so nicely integrated. close [-] 
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