Patent ID: 8207437

Claim:
A hand-held computing device with built-in disc-jockey functionality, comprising: a hand-held housing; a loud speaker output on the housing for providing a sound output for connection to at least one loud speaker system; a display on the housing; at least one user manually activated channel selection input on the housing for selecting at least one of at least first and second channels; a user manually activated mode selection input on the housing for selecting either a bend mode or a pitch mode for adjusting a bend or a pitch for the at least one channel selected by the user, said bend mode temporarily changing a playing speed of the selected channel to synchronize a beat of the selected channel to a beat of the other channel, and when there is no additional further input adjustment by the user for the bend mode the speed of the selected channel automatically returning to an original speed, and said pitch mode permanently changing a playing speed of the selected channel to a playing speed of the other channel until a new input adjustment is provided in the pitch mode for changing the pitch of the selected channel; only one user manually activated magnitude input device on the housing for manually adjusting a magnitude of the bend or a magnitude of the pitch for the selected bend mode or pitch mode; and only one user manually activated cross-fading input on the housing for manually adjusting a cross-fading between the first and the second channels independently of which of the channels is selected.