The American Audio Velocity Professional Dual CD/MP3 Player expands your creativity with 9 digital FX and professional features like digital scratching, beatmatching and syncing effects with music, sampling and looping, and changing tempos and mixing FX on the fly. The ultrasensitive dual PowerTouch interactive jog wheels give you precise control over digital scratching and other digital FX. This jog wheel is sensitive to the slightest touch and allows for Digital Scratching 2.0 technology with 2 scratching modes: digital scratch mode and beat juggle mode. Ideal for the club, stage, or studio, the Velocity CD/MP3 Player includes a 4-space controller and can be used as either a rackmountable or tabletop unit. The deck comes with 4 sturdy rubber feet. Designed for easy portability, the total weight of both pieces is just 16 lbs.
The Velocity's digital BPM counter uses advanced DSP technology to match beats with complete precision and accuracy, and will synchronize the digital FX exactly to the beat of the music and automatically keep those FX in sync at all times. The Velocity also features a TAP Button for quick, manual beatmatching.
The 9 onboard effects include filter, echo, trans, skid, phase, flanger, pan, and bop. The FX can be layered on top of one another for endless creative possibilities. The American Audio Velocity makes it easy for any DJ to use FX like a pro, because each effect has 6 preset parameters developed by a panel of leading DJs. You can also easily customize the FX parameters with the Parameter Time and Parameter Radio adjustment knobs.
Tempo lock (a.k.a. master tempo) allows the tempo of the music to be changed without distorting the vocal portion of the track. The Hyper Pitch feature allows up to a ±100% pitch change. It also comes equipped with pitch bend buttons and ±4%, 8%, and 16% pitch selections.
Other professional features of this CD and MP3 Player include seamless looping, reverse play, true instant start, anti-shock memory (10 seconds per side), fader Q start (when used with an American Audio Q-series mixer), flip flop (relay playback between 2 decks), and a lock out mode for security. There are 3 flash start sampler buttons per side, each of which can store up to a 7-second sample, with or without a CD in the drive. The volume and pitch of the music and samples can be adjusted separately.
Gerald "World Wide" Webb, the first digital turntablist and founder of www.DigitalScratch.com gives you expert pointers on using the Velocity in the included instructional video. The video also features performances by DJ Skilz and Omar Santana.
Other features of the Velocity CD/MP3 Player include a headphone output with volume control; single/continuous play; selectable elapsed, remain, and total remain time display.
