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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.
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.
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.)
- 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).
- "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.
- 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.
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
*Perfect 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.
Seta Balanced Direct Coupled Ultra Wide Bandwidth Phono Preamplifiers. Ideal for use with Pure Vinyl's RIAA Correction.
New in version 3.0PR5r:
Improves usability
New in version 3.0PR5g:
• improves usability and fixes a channel routing problem when using the crossover feature (namely, if the multichannel routing were set so that a higher-numbered pair of channels was configured to produce flat output, that setting would be ignored, and the output of the crossover filter applied to that pair of channels, as well).
• Corrects a problem causing a TASCAM US-144 USB audio interface to not be properly initialized (the symptom being no input or output).
• RME FireFace users only: this release also adds support for the DDS sample rate feature of the RME audio interfaces. DDS permits plus or minus 4 percent audio pitch control at any supported sample rate. This is accomplished not by resampling the audio, but by changing the frequency of the sample rate clock, using the DDS pane of the RME Fireface settings application. If you choose to use this feature, be certain the DDS frequency multiplier and base sample rate are correctly set for the file's nominal sample rate - unless you want to play something drastically speeded up or slowed down! Note that if Pure Vinyl changes the hardware sample rate in response to encountering a different audio file sample rate, the DDS Active check box will automatically be turned off, and will have to manually be re-checked again to continue with a modified sample rate.
System Requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
• G4, G5 or Intel processor.
Platform Support
PPC/Intel
$229.00 Demoware
For more information, visit:
http://www.channld.com/pure-vinyl.html
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