Pure Vinyl™ User Guide

Pure Vinyl™

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There also is a "getting started" tutorial available, that covers basic album editing in the Pure Vinyl environment: Pure Vinyl Getting Started Tutorial

Note: System requirements, installation, demo version limitations, purchasing an activation code, the iTunes visualizer, troubleshooting, contact information and version history are covered in the Pure Vinyl READ ME file.

What is Pure Vinyl?

Pure Vinyl is a package of audio recording / editing / archiving applications designed from the ground up for making the highest possible quality transcriptions from "vinyl" (LP) recordings, and the highest possible quality playback of those transcriptions.

Pure Vinyl consists of integrated recorder and editor / player applications.

Pure Vinyl was designed specifically for creating high-resolution, archival quality transcriptions of your precious records - at sample rates and resolutions up to 192 kHz / 32 bit. Pure Vinyl Recorder can apply precision RIAA EQ in software... and can automatically downsample to CD 44.1 kHz 16 bit or DVD-A 96 kHz 24 bit format while recording, a valuable timesaver.

Pure Vinyl isn't just confined to being used for vinyl transcriptions, however: Any audio file (96 kHz or less) can be edited and split into individual tracks. For higher sample rates, Pure Vinyl includes an extremely high quality, mathematically correct decimator to generate 44.1 kHz or 96 kHz output files. After generating the vinyl overview and track split images, the original audio files (up to 192 kHz / 32 bit) can be played (and can provide real-time RIAA equalization for raw, unequalized archival recordings).

The Pure Vinyl editor also provides a unique and fun "vinyl visualizer" feature, which fetches tracks from your iTunes playlist, generating an entertaining, animated display, while providing playback and track seek (drag the record player "tonearm") controls.

What's Included:

Pure Vinyl Recorder, a digital audio recorder specifically geared towards transcribing vinyl recordings to digital format.

Pure Vinyl (Editor), works in conjunction with Pure Vinyl Recorder to edit, play (in "album" format), and split recordings into individual tracks, for moving to CD or digital music collections.

AudioLeak, a free, helper application that allows very quickly inspecting the recording for peak and RMS level (and optionally provides a graph of these values). You might want to move AudioLeak from the Goodies folder into your Applications folder, and then delete the Goodies folder. This will enable a more seamless interaction with the other two Pure Vinyl applications.

Pure Vinyl Recorder includes:

Sample rate support to 192 kHz / 32 bit.
Automatic, simultaneous (while recording) creation of high-quality decimated (downsampled) duplicate of high sample-rate audio.
Integrated, precision inverse - RIAA equalization that can be applied to the high sample rate audio, decimated audio, or both.
Noise gate trigger that facilitates transcribing LP records by pausing recording when "flipping" or changing the LP being recorded.

Pure Vinyl Editor includes:

A unique, "scratch" style track editor.
Choice of extremely high quality decimation (downsampling) routines (for creating CD-quality transcriptions).
Peak Normalization and Pop Editors.
High-quality playback of high sample rate transcriptions, optionally with inverse-RIAA equalization.
Can be used with any audio file (not just files created by Pure Vinyl Recorder).
An integrated iTunes visualizer and controller.

AudioLeak (free):

Quickly analyzes your recordings to determine relative loudness and peak levels, without having to listen to the recordings.
Can be used with any audio file (not just files created by Pure Vinyl).

Documentation

Complete, detailed documentation is currently being revised and expanded. Please check with http://www.virtual-vinyl.com for updates.

However, please be sure to read the information below about the Pure Vinyl Workflow to help you get started, and get the most from Pure Vinyl. The workflow documents linked below are presented in a tutorial format.

The Pure Vinyl Workflow

To get the most from Pure Vinyl, it's very useful to consider the example workflow situation listed below, in light of your intended use of the product.

First and foremost, keep in mind that Pure Vinyl is primarily oriented towards getting the highest possible quality from your transcriptions of vinyl records.

Your specific usage of Pure Vinyl may involve some or all of the steps below. The steps are explained in a tutorial manner in the workflow documents linked below.

Here is a somewhat technical rationale of the workflow.

Or else, just click through the documents linked below.

Example Workflow:

Digitizing and archiving vinyl LPs

There also is a "getting started" tutorial, that covers basic album editing in the Pure Vinyl environment: Pure Vinyl Getting Started Tutorial

Pure Vinyl website: http://www.virtual-vinyl.com