[linux-audio-announce] Sweep 0.5.3 -- Selector Scrubby

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Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Sweep 0.5.3 -- Selector Scrubby
From: Conrad Parker (conrad_AT_vergenet.net)
Date: Thu Sep 05 2002 - 15:34:23 EEST

Sweep 0.5.3 Development Release
-------------------------------

Sweep is a sound wave editor, and it is now also generally useful as a
flexible recording and playback tool. Inside lives a pesky little virtual
stylus called Scrubby who enjoys mixing around in your files.

This development release is available as a source tarball at:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sweep/sweep-0.5.3.tar.gz?download
or
    http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/download/sweep-0.5.3.tar.gz

This release incorporates robust configuration checking to help new users
compile from source. After a long period of quiet development we are now
beginning to roll this out for general public usage, and your testing and
feedback is very welcome!

Changes since 0.1.1 (October 2000) include interactive scrubbing, recording,
support for LADSPA 1.1 effects plugins and multichannel sound files,
multithreaded background rendering, unlimited undo/redo, mouse wheel zooming,
reverse playback and overall stability and usability improvements.

Changes since version 0.5.0 (August 12 2002) include preferences saving and
support for libsndfile 1.0.0.

Changes since version 0.5.1 (August 29 2002) include improved configure
checks and porting fixes. Additionally, Sweep now remembers the last used
file load and save directories between sessions.

Changes since version 0.5.2 (September 4 2002) include the fixing of a bug
in "save as", and (NEW) audible scrubbing when selecting regions.

Summary of library dependencies:

        * GTK+ 1.2 (standard in most distributions)

        * libsndfile-1.0.0, available at:

            http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/libsndfile-1.0.0.tar.gz

            * libtdb, available in many distributions or at:

            http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/tdb

Screenshot:
http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/images/screenshots/sweep_20020813.png

Sweep is designed to be intuitive and to give you full control. It includes
almost everything you would expect in a sound editor, and then some:

        * precise, vinyl like scrubbing
        * looped, reverse, and pitch-controlled playback
        * playback mixing of unlimited independent tracks
        * looped and reverse recording
        * internationalisation
        * multichannel and 32 bit floating point file support
        * LADSPA 1.1 effects support
        * multiple views, discontinuous selections
        * easy keybindings, mouse wheel zooming
        * unlimited undo/redo with fully revertible edit history
        * multithreaded background processing
        * shaded peak/mean waveform rendering, multiple colour schemes

Help wanted! Sweep needs testing; please report any problems encountered!
Urgent development is required in the following areas: ALSA and Jack support,
updating of translations and user documentation.

Sweep is Free Software, available under the GNU General Public License.

More information is available at:

    http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/

Thanks to Pixar Animation Studios and CSIRO Australia for supporting the
development of this project.

enjoy :)

Conrad.
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