PCDJ Reflex

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reflex
adj., n. ree-fleks; v. ri-fleks
Occurring in reaction; responsive. 

PCDJ Reflex is the all encompassing, real-time performance PC and MAC software solution for every type of professional DJ.  Whether you're a Club DJ, Turntablist, Producer, or Mobile DJ - Reflex offers the rock solid features you've been asking for, with the flexibility you've only dreamt of.  Mix, Scratch, Remix, use VST plug-ins in real-time - all from your computers hard disc or ROM drive.  Choose your method of control: time code, midi controller, USB HID device such as the DAC-3 - or any combination for any type of gig in any environment.  Reflex can beat-sync for you seamlessly, or you can perform as you would with vinyl with ultra-low latency control.  This is the only DJ mixing environment you will ever need. We've heard you DJs - and here's our Reflex...

Product Features:

3 Track/Loop Players
Reflex has the 3 players that can also function as samplers. Each player supports full analog or digital transport capability, looping and playback in both directions.

Interactive Waveform Display
Each player supports an interactive waveform display. This makes cueing and looping easier, faster, and friendlier. Grabbing the wave with the mouse is also supported.

Support For Standard Digital Audio Formats
Reflex supports playback of MP3, Unprotected AAC, WAV files (many formats), and AIF files, OGG-Vorbis, FLAC and Redbook Audio-CDs.

Sample-Accurate Cueing
All cueing and looping is done with sample accuracy, quantization can also be used as and aid. Cueing can also be done automatically, so Reflex can provide access to the very start of any track.

Pitch Shifting and Tempo Shifting
Reflex supports high quality (not buffer based) pitch shifting and tempo shifting independently of each other

Scratching
Reflex provides interactive scratching via the mouse, DAC controller, any midi input device or time code.

Performance Recording
Dedicated control file format for recording and editing a mix without replicating the audio material. This feature records all events as a series of MIDI commands. The user is able to export the complete mix-performance to WAV or MP3 from Reflex.

Automated Tempo and Beat Matching
In addition to allowing the DJ to beat match manually, Reflex is able to assist the DJ in automatically matching beats for perfect mixes. Reflex also uses "Beat Track". This allows songs that have inconsistent BPM to be mixed accurately. "Beat track" also knows the start of the bar, this opens up very cool auto mix and help for users that don't know how to read bars.

Single Touch Loops
Loops with selectable multiples of bars can be set on the fly by only one key press. These loops are quantized for seamless looping. Loop can have 2 trigger points, and can easily be shifted, moved, cut and extended in real time.

Fully Automated Digital DJ Mixer
Full featured, multi-channel DJ mixer that can be completed automated. Includes assignable cross fader, faders for each source and boost and mute buttons. Mixer can also be set to provide automatic cross fades and fades and also synchronized mixing at pre-determined times, and in beat if with the selected auto mix rules. Furthermore a dub mode and an overwrite mode for automation should be included when trying to polish the mix in more than one go.

3-Band EQ
 (-24dB...+12dB) Each band has a "kill" switch. Also, band pass/notch filter with variable width, resonance and cutoff frequency for each channel. EQ is fully automated with a dub mode and an overwrite mode for automation should be included when trying to polish the mix in more than one go.

Flexible Monitoring Options
Separate monitor output supporting multi-channel, 3D and secondary soundcards or 2 mono outputs on a single soundcard. Sound output systems supported includes DirectX, WDM, ASIO, and Core Audio.

MIDI Control Over All Relevant Panel Elements
Reflex is fully MIDI controlled. All features are accessible from external MIDI controllers. A midi-learn function is included to simply select an element you wish to control, select midi-learn and then just move your controller to tell Reflex the corresponding midi-controller.  This applies to our DAC-3 controller as well. 

Automatic BPM Detection
Reflex provides automatic, hi-resolution BPM calculation. Once a track is loaded into the Reflex record case, BPM extraction begins automatically.

Automatic Bar Detection/Beat tracking
Reflex provides bar detection and beat location marking, so it knows where the beats are, and also the start of the bars.

Automatic Quantization control
Reflex can be set to different quantization resolutions. This ensures that user always starts, inserts or adds other effects on the set resolution. This feature, in conjunction with beat tracking, allows Reflex to automatically adjust any user errors. This can of course be turned off.

Normalization   
Reflex allows for loudness detection on audio sources. If one track is quieter than the previous, Reflex can compensate for it.

Turntable Brake             
Reflex also features some interesting turntable effects such as Turntable Brake and Start.

Tempo Effects
Reflex also features tempo effects; these are preprogrammed scratch, repeat, spin up/down effects that will be performed in beat when user triggers them.

Play List Logging and Dynamic Lists      
Complete logging of all tracks that are played during a performance.
Dynamic lists can also be defined, such as top20, etc.

Complete Media Management
The Reflex Media Management component aids in the archiving and storage of thousands of song files. It can also be used to extract audio from CDs and convert media to other formats. The Media manager also provides line-in recording so that DJs may add other media sources such as tapes and LP's. Non-performance features of the Media Manager are separated from the actual Reflex interface. This allows for a small footprint performance environment. Internet support for CD-Grabbing with the feature to keep recognized CDs in the database (i.e. you connect to the internet once and every CD that has been identified will show up the same every time you put it in again - even without connecting to the internet). Database functionalities (like search by artist, length, genre, ...). A record case player is also included so the user can preview his tracks without loading the track in a player.
 
Auto Play Features
Reflex supports the standard array of auto play functions such as shuffle play, list play etc.

Plug-In Support 
The digital mixer section of Reflex supports VST plug-in effects with a maximum 2 plug-ins on each player.

Midi clock        
Reflex can lock all its players to a master clock, or send out clock to other applications or hardware.

Customizable GUI         
Color themes for the GUI can be chosen and customized by the user

System Requirements:

Windows
Windows XP, Pentium-II 800 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 16 bit sound card, CD-ROM 24x

Macintosh
Mac OS X, PowerMac G4 867 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 16 bit sound card, CD-ROM 24x