I’m possibly a little late to the party on this one, but when I saw the Gearjunkies post on Facebook, I immediately fell in geeky love and made the same noises that we all make when we see our social media timelines proliferated with cute baby animals. For the ESI UDJ6 is just that – a cute baby audio interface made for DJs. I just want to hold it in my palm and stroke it.
For those that haven’t see it, the word from ESI:
UDJ6 is a new professional level 24-bit USB audio interface featuring 6 totally independent output channels.
Two stereo outputs (channels 3 to 6) are provided with RCA connectors on one side of the small and compact bus-powered interface, in its stylish aluminium case. The other side features a stereo headphone output for 1/4″ stereo connection (providing channel 1 and 2 signals).
Of course, every output channel can be accessed totally independent from within any modern DJ application for Mac OS X or for Windows. This compatibility is provided by the included ASIO 2.0 drivers for Windows XP / Vista / 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) and the full CoreAudio support for Mac OS X.
All this makes UDJ6 perfect for digital DJs on the road working with notebook computers. Simply use your favorite DJ software and mix your tracks the way you like it! Monitor and pre-listen to your signals via the built-in headphone output. UDJ6 of course also works on your desktop computer and is compatible with all important professional audio software applications as well.
UDJ6 comes bundled with a license of Deckadance LE from Image Line Software, a powerful DJ software that was written by DJs for DJs – simply start DJing with the separate output channels of UDJ6!
UDJ6 will ship to ESI resellers around the globe during summer 2012.
Features
- 24-bit / 96kHz D/A converter
- 6 independent output channels
- 2 output channels with 1/4″ TRS headphone output
- 4 output channels with RCA connectors for output 3/4 and 5/6
- compatible with Windows XP and Windows Vista/7 supporting ASIO 2.0, WDM, MME (using ESI’s EWDM driver technology)
- compatible with Mac OS X and supported by the native CoreAudio USB audio support from Apple, no special driver installation required
- compact and portable design with around 7 cm x 6 cm x 2 cm
- includes license of Deckadance LE from Image-Line Software
So you won’t be using this with a DVS anytime soon. But for those whose needs are somewhat less complicated, the UDJ6 is ideal, and I’m talking especially about those with controllers that lack a built in audio interface. This would look good next to a Numark Mixtrack for example. And while I can wrap a whole cute story around its size, it looks built to take a bit of a hammering as well as gentle petting.
It’s shipping now according to Gearjunkies, and for the equally cute and adorable price of £89/€119. And I thought the NI Audio2 was small. Anyone else know of similar equally tiny audio interfaces?
