Pure Vinyl for Apple Macintosh Computers
linking analog LP playback with the precision of
high-resolution digital music reproduction
LP Playback / Recording / Editing
/ Archival
High Resolution Music Server Software
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Pure
Vinyl is the first software of its kind to directly
link audiophile caliber analog vinyl playback and the
advantages of high-resolution (192 kHz / 24 bit) digital audio
reproduction and recording / archival.
Used with a quality audio
interface, Pure Vinyl is capable of
providing stunningly dynamic, detailed music reproduction, faithfully
preserving and conveying all of the music contained in the grooves
of your vinyl records.
And it's
fun: Pure Vinyl uses the audio information in the sound file
to recreate a realistic-looking and -spinning replica of the
vinyl recording. The image assists in editing and provides
a tonearm style cueing controller and display during
playback.
Pure Vinyl has a no-compromise
64 bit internal signal path. This will, of course, transport unchanged
native format (up to 192 kHz 24 bit) audio; or also upsample
lower resolution audio to the best quality (up to 192 kHz, 24 or 32 bit)
available for your particular
audio interface / DAC,
using our painstakingly developed high quality 64 bit upsampling
algorithm.
Pure Vinyl
provides a single point of integration
for your analog and your digitally sourced music.
Besides being
specifically tailored to high quality vinyl playback, Pure Vinyl 3
also functions as a music server, for automated, "jukebox" style playback of
tracks from your iTunes music library, including
high-resolution downloads, music from CDs, or purchased from iTunes.
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download free demo or purchase
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| "I love to listen to my records
with Pure Vinyl... After I connected the cartridge, the sound
became much more 3D and the reverb tails are much longer and
wider, also the dynamics are bigger. My cartridge is the Van
Den Hul MC Two Special mounted in the SME titanium tone arm."
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Comment from a Pure Vinyl user, regarding Pure Vinyl's RIAA correction
used for "live" vinyl playback with
a "flat" (standard microphone) preamplifier, instead of a
conventional phono preamplifier |
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High - Quality Playback Pure Vinyl applies an extremely
accurate inverse - RIAA vinyl correction curve in real-time during
playback. Your music is reproduced as accurately as possible,
by eliminating the distortion and frequency response errors of
analog based hardware.
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Does
Using Software RIAA Correction "Reduce Resolution?" No - as can easily
be determined via listening, and as proven
in a technical paper (available on our downloads
page) that was presented at the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention in 2007.
(Also see the Pure Vinyl FAQ for more information.) |
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Short, high-resolution sample snippet of "Fever," from the new
"Elvis is Back!" 45 RPM 2-disc Analogue Productions reissue LP,
which was rated
"10" for sound quality by
musicangle.
The sample was edited from a "Flat" 192 kHz transfer to digital using a
Channel D Seta® Model L
preamplifier and
Lynx audio interface. RIAA
correction was done with "pass through" seting of the Pure Vinyl SRC,
and Pure Vinyl's adjustable
72 dB / octave ZEPHRR® zero-phase-shift subsonic filter.
File format: 192 kHz, 24 bit, Apple Lossless (27 MB).
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Recording
Pure
Vinyl was designed specifically for creating high-resolution,
archival quality transcriptions of your precious vinyl, at sample
rates up to 192 kHz (or higher). Pure Vinyl automatically can
downsample and mirror to CD or DVD-A formats during recording,
for digital jukebox use. Pure Vinyl uses standard audio file formats: AIFF,
Sound Designer II, m4a (losslessly compressed) and Apple CoreAudio format
(either uncompressed or losslessly compressed).
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"Revolutionary" Editing / Exporting Pure Vinyl uses the "scratch"
style, grab-and-spin metaphor employed by professional DJs, with
"needle drop" track cueing. It's an intuitive, fun
way to assign track markers - instead of being unnecessarily
tedious, as with conventional, linear-style waveform editors.
After editing, individual tracks automatically can be extracted
and exported from the original file.
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Peak Detection / Normalization / Pop and Click
Removal Pure Vinyl incorporates features
to streamline this tedious (but ultimately rewarding) task. The
built-in peak finder and waveform inspector is useful for setting
proper normalization levels.
All
editing, normalization and click removal operations are nondestructive
to the original file.
| "One of the nicest and most feature-laden
software packages for transferring LPs to digital files."
- Steven Stone, in The Absolute Sound Magazine, February 2009 (Issue 190). |
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General:
- Supports
192 kHz 24 bit Sampling for State of the Art, High-Resolution
Digital Quality
- Painstakingly
Designed to Preserve the Warmth, Clarity and Dynamics of Vinyl
Reproduction
- Precision Optimized
64-Bit RIAA Vinyl Correction Curve*
(IIR design, with phase response identical to analog RIAA correction)
- Pristine,
64 bit (Double Precision) Floating-Point Internal Signal Path
for No Added Distortion*
- Helps
Optimize Turntable Setup by Providing a Repeatable Baseline:
Just Record and Compare
Features:
- Unique,
"Scratch" Style, Grab & Spin "Vinyl Cueing"
Nondestructive Audio Editor
- Cueing
Trigger "Noise Gate" feature Automates Recording Process;
Just Lift Stylus and Flip the Record
- Integrated,
High Quality 64-Bit
Sample Rate Converter
for Exporting CD Format Tracks
to Digital Players (iTunes, iPod, CD-R)
- ZEPHRR®
Zero Phase Shift 64-Bit Rumble Filter for Resampling; Adjustable
Frequency, up to 96 dB / octave slope
- Adjustable
Noise-Shaped Dithering for Word-Length Reduction
- Includes
Dozens of Built-In Correction Curves for pre-1955 Vinyl / Shellac
- Bonus:
Upsampling (to 88.2, 96, 176.4 or 192 kHz, using 64 bit math)
Player for Highest Quality Playback of iTunes Tracks
- Another
Bonus: Built-In Subwoofer Crossover (with 64 bit internal resolution
and Adjustable Time / Phase Alignment) for Multichannel Audio
Interfaces
- much,
much more...
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interchannel phase and amplitude match (zero interchannel error);
no capacitors needed in the signal chain! The
residual distortion
with double precision (64 bit) processing is too small to measure; far below the resolution
threshold of 24 bit audio interfaces, and superior to the
32 bit ("single precision") signal processing used
in most other audio applications. |
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