Features

The HDC 500 can play all your MP3s CBR or VBR at any bitrate up to 320kbps.

Support for various hard drive flash based music players such as Apple iPod™ and External CD DVD Rom Drives
With two USB ports and support for up to 4 devices when using a USB hub
The HDC unit allows users to connect and recognize multiple storage devices to access a variety of separate music databases simultaneously.
No need to abandon the CD collection the HDC 500 is able to play audio CDs with any compatible USB CD ROM or DVD ROM drive.
Play back user created CD Rs or DVD Rs loaded with MP3 or WAV music files using a compatible USB CD ROM or DVD ROM drive.

Due to Apple limitations the iPod® iTouch iPhone Mac formatted Classics are not compatible with Cortex products.

Intelligent Music Database Management
The HDC-500 uses a database management system that allows the user to search through a massive library of music within seconds by artist title genre album or even by string.

Multiple search options including file explorer and BPM search.

4 line 80 charcter LCD display for playback information parameter adjustments Waveform display
The brightly illuminated LCD main playback screen displays info on any track in the catalog showing everything from the essentials such as artist track title pitch time elapsed remaining to detailed information including file format MP3 or WAV genre and track length and Waveform Display.

Front and Rear USB ports for easy access
As well as having a high speed USB connection in the back the HDC 500 includes one right in the front of the machine for easy access when the unit is rack mounted.
Both USB connections allow you to connect any kind of media as well as an optional USB keyboard.

Jog Wheel with Jog Mode Select
The HDC 500s multifunction Jog Wheel let you change modes on the fly in the default mode the wheel acts as a pitch controller and in Jog Mode the wheel allows you to use it for fast forwarding and rewinding as well when in any of the other modes of the HDC 500 like Search Edit and or CUEING the Jog wheel can be used as a navigation tool.

One Touch Song and ID3 tag info button
When either side of the HDC 500 has a song loaded into it by pressing the INFO button the HDC 500s display will show you the ID3 tag information for that particular song.

Free Cortex Database Software
Although this software is not needed to operate the Cortex it allows you to use the processing power of your computer to create waveforms and help manage all your music files at the click of a mouse button.
Databases can be created via the HDC unit or the PC application allowing users to create and manage database files at a gig or on a home computer with lightning fast speed.
The free software can easily be downloaded off our website.