the User Manual
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1. The Analogue Ripper Page 10 of 12 c Recorder options Check these boxes to determine TAR s behaviour after completion of a recording wah 5 _Analogue Ripper Preferences Background Editor sess Help M Open New Recording Window at Start M Close Recording Window After Opening Editor _ Mute Recorder After Opening Editor V Open Recording in Editor View Background Cancel Apply vi Bug Reports and Comments If you have problems with TAR or would like other features in a future version please e mail us and let us know mailto Support Hotwork org vi Legal Stuff TAR is for use by people wanting to convert their own collections of analogue recordings to digital It is not designed for commercial use The Analogue Ripper Page 11 of 12 We have taken great care in writing TAR but can accept no liability for any losses arising from it s use whether registered or unregistered TAR is supplied as is Hotwork hereby disclaims all warranties relating to this software whether express or implied including without limitation any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose Hotwork will not be liable for any special incidental consequential indirect or similar damages due to loss of data or any other reason or for any claim by any other party even if Hotwork or an agent of Hotwork has been advised of the possibility of such damages In no event shall Hotwork2. N Track Name Starts At Duration Save The Waiting 00 02 6 47 a Play II Pause BB stop A Woman in Love 04 02 5 Track Hunter o Aaw gt wN ee Q RAAAAAAAA 1 2 3 Nightwatchman 08 23 9 4 12 22 9 Minimum Track Length 02 40 Minutes 5 Kings Roa 17 08 9 6 Letting You Go 20 29 4 4 7 AThing About You 24 15 4 8 Insider 27 47 3 9 The Criminal Kind 32 10 8 10 You Can Still Change Your Mind 36 07 8 Silence Between Tracks 03 0 Seconds ST LOL EMAL ia eo eee ny Track Hunter H Send to iTunes TAR presents sounds as a volume trace averaged over 0 1 second periods The trace is relative and no scale can be assumed Silences are represented by low levels crescendos are indicated by high levels The Trace can display both channels combined blue or left red and right green channels If you attempt to show no elements of the trace the combined trace will be shown You can toggle display of channels with the following keyboard shortcuts Command B Displays Both channels combined Command L Displays the Left channel trace The Analogue Ripper Page 5 of 12 Command R Displays the Right channel trace Command F Toggle the trace to Follow music playing The green and red strip over the trace scroll gives an overview of the recording Green sections are tracks and red sections are the gaps between them If you click on the scroll bar while holding down the command button the trace will
3. start to appear represented by green and red lines respectively When the number of tracks is what you were expecting stop You can combine adjusting the Silence Between Tracks the Minimum Track Length and the Silence Threshold to fine tune this process as you become more experienced You can move the light blue start play marker to the beginnings ends of tracks and click on play to check that the track markers are in the right place The Analogue Ripper Page 6 of 12 You can move track markers by clicking on them and dragging them If you drag them out of the display box the sound will scroll to follow them You should now have a list of tracks in the scrolling list at bottom left These are initially given default names based on the name of the sound file You can edit the names in line in the list by clicking on them and then typing in the new names Names are not lost when you use the track hunter If you don t want to save all tracks you can toggle whether tracks are saved by checking and un checking the checkbox in the right hand column of the track list c Viewing and editing information about a recording The info button displays the info window which shows information about the movie s recording format and allows entry of data about the recording If you send the tracks to iTunes the data will be sent with them The info window has copy and paste buttons which give access to a special clipboard s
4. Analogue Ripper Record Albums Break Them Into Tracks Send the tracks to iTunes What the Analogue Ripper TAR does TAR allows you to digitally record music and sound from any analogue source onto your Mac You can record from cassettes vinyl microphone 8 Track reel to reel radio even VHS in fact anything that you have playback equipment for TAR records in either Apple Lossless format or one of two AAC qualities TAR has powerful and easy to use editing features that let you break albums or cassettes up into discreet tracks This is very important if you don t always want to listen to tracks 1 2 and 3 before track 4 TAR records sound as QuickTime movie soundtracks Tracks can be sent to iTunes for encoding with any of iTunes compression formats TAR allows editing of track name artist album etc so that this data is included when the track is sent to iTunes All entered data is saved with the sound i What TAR does not do TAR does not burn files onto CD iTunes does this TAR does not do any digital signal processing m What you need A Computer Equipment Macintosh running OSX 10 6 Snow Leopard or higher Note that TAR 2 05 is still available and will record and edit on PPC and intel based Macs running OSX 10 3 10 4 or 10 5 B Audio Equipment You can record onto your computer from vinyl tape radio or other analogue source You can record direct from some sources like portable radios or personal mu
5. d button B Pausing and resuming recording You can pause recording at any time by clicking on the Pause button When recording is paused the timers are stopped and the Stop After Silence feature is disabled You can resume recording by clicking on the Resume button If the recording has been paused by the silence timer and you have checked the Resume on Sound Input checkbox adjacent to the Pause radio button the recording will resume as soon as sound above the silence threshold is detected This is useful if you wish to record both sides of an LP or cassette c Stopping recording Recording will stop when e The stop button is pressed e The period timer has elapsed e The silence timer has elapsed and the selected action is stop If you have checked Open Recording In Editor Window in the preferences window the recording will be opened in the editor window D Aborting recording This will stop the recording and delete the current recording file The Analogue Ripper Page 4 of 12 v Editing Sound Files TAR can open many different types of sound file Some files produced by earlier versions of TAR may appear dimmed in the file open window If the file is a quicktime movie you may be able to fix this by adding the suffix mov if it is not present e090 Hard Promises 07 45 07 50 07 55 08 00 08 05 08 10 08 15 08 20 08 25 08 30 08 35 08 40 08 45 08 50 08 55 09 00 Nightwatchman
6. ds And Then Pause M Resume on Sound C Stop Input Play Through Source Built in Line Input ot A K FEN Pause gt Resume L ae m Abort 101 Use Stereo Gain 1 01 If the New Recording window is not open select New Recording from under the file menu The recording Window is shown below TAR will supply you with a default file name to record to To change this click on the Select File button As a default location for recordings TAR creates an Analogue Ripper folder in your Music Folder Turn on your recording source and set the Input popup to suit This will generally be as Built In Input for Input The Analogue Ripper Page 3 of 12 Adjust the silence threshold The slider between the two level meters so that between tracks or when the sound has finished the level stays in the blue area Note that because the level meters are now on a decibel scale this may be higher than on previous versions of TAR Adjust the gain controls so that loud music fills the main yellow green area of the level meters without going into the red Set the Stop after a period of time period to a value greater than the duration of whatever you are recording from This is really just a fall back in case the source is very noisy Set the Interrupt after a silence of period 10 to 15 seconds is good Move your source back to the beginning and click on the Recor
7. es The encoder is set back to the one set in iTunes when encoding is complete Hard Promises You can set the Track Number offset to Send en TTunas add a fixed amount to the track number of each track For example if you have 2 recorded side two of an LP separately from Using MP3 Encoder x side one you may want to offset the track numbers of side two by the number of tracks on side one Cancel isetu T M Tell iTunes to encode Tracks Track Number Offset 0 l The Analogue Ripper Page 8 of 12 vi Preferences A Background Options This allows you to control the appearance of the recorder and editor windows You can test what a pattern will look like by clicking on View Background Background Editor Recorder Editor Recorder Recorder a View Background Coa The Analogue Ripper Page 9 of 12 B Play Marker options If you check the Move To Selected Track option a click on a track in the track list will move the play marker to the beginning of the selected track There are further options for the exact position either right at the beginning in between the beginning of the current track and the previous one or at the end of the previous track Background Recorder Play Marker V Move To Selected Track Before End of Previous Track _ End of Previous Track _ Between Start and End _ Start of Selected Track View Background Cancel Apply
8. o that recording information can be copied between editor windows This is useful if you have recorded both sides of an album separately Track names can be added directly in the list of the edit window or added edited here You can also paste in text from another source If the text in the comments section contains a carriage Recording Info Album Artist Composer Track Count Genre Comments Track Names Format and Size Format Duration Data Size Hard Promises Hard Promises Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Composer 10 Year 1978 Joyful strumming Any comments that you may wish to attach to the tracks in iTunes The Waiting A Woman in Love Nightwatchman Something Big Kings Road Letting You Go A Thing About You 16 bit Integer Big Endian Stereo 44 100 kHz 0 40 41 2 410 MB Copy Paste Data Rate 1 411 kbps File Size 420 MB Cancel return your tracks will not export to iTunes This is a bug Thanks to Frank F for finding it The Analogue Ripper Page 7 of 12 Lo ea D Sending Tracks to iTunes You can send your tracks to iTunes they will be added to your library of songs and the track name album artist composer etc will be set as described under the Info window above You can also request iTunes to encode your tracks using the encoder from the pop up menu The bitrate and other options are as set in iTun
9. s liability for any damages ever exceed the price paid for the license to use the software regardless of the form of the claim The person using the software bears all risk as to the quality and performance of the software The user of this program accepts responsibility for obeying all applicable copyright law I hope you have a lot of fun with it Manual Version 3 01 The Analogue Ripper Page 12 of 12
10. scroll to that point Many aspects of the appearance and behaviour of the editor window are controlled via the Preferences window See Preferences below A Adding moving and deleting markers You can determine the start and end of tracks by placing markers manually or by using the track hunter Add start markers by clicking on the green button at top left Add stop markers by clicking on the red button at top right Delete markers by dragging them to one of the trash cans You cannot delete the play marker You can place the play marker by clicking anywhere in the trace You can play pause and stop the sound playing with the Play Pause and Stop buttons B How to break an open sound file up into tracks The file must be open and displayed in the editor Note that TAR will open most sound files including some that have video tracks Check the LP Cassette or other source for the number of tracks but don t worry if you don t know this Set the silence between tracks to 2 0 seconds Set the minimum track length to two minutes These are defaults and will already be set Push the Track Hunter button to turn on the automatic track seeking feature When the track hunter is on the magenta limit line will appear the track hunter values will be bright yellow in the handles and the track hunter button will appear depressed Click on one of the track hunter handles and move the track hunter up the track beginnings and ends will
11. sic players by plugging the headphone output into your computer s sound in port You will need a connector cable with a 3 5 mm stereo jack at each end If you need to amplify the source for example a turntable you will need an amplifier the source turntable cassette deck etc and some speakers Make sure that your Mac and all audio equipment is turned off while you are making connections Most Macs have a 3 5 mm stereo mini plug sound in port You will need an audio cable with the stereo mini plug on one end and two RCA phono plugs on the other for connection to your amplifier Summary for use of an external amplifier Connect the sound in port of your Mac to a tape output on the amplifier Connect the sound out port on your Mac to a tape input on the amplifier In this way you can both record sound from the amplifier s source and play back the sounds you have recorded The Analogue Ripper Page 2 of 12 iv Recording With The Analogue Ripper TAR has a comprehensive live help system which can be turned on or off with the Show Help option under the Help menu When it is turned on captions will appear relating to the area under the mouse cursor A How To record sounds to file eoo New Recording Output Levels dB To File aRip 2012 01 19 0028 Format Apple Lossless g Select File Timers M Stop after a period of 60 Minutes M Interrupt after a silence of 15 Secon
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