[linux-audio-announce] Sweep 0.8.3 Released

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Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Sweep 0.8.3 Released
From: Conrad Parker (conrad_AT_metadecks.org)
Date: Fri Apr 30 2004 - 09:28:32 EEST

Fri Apr 30 2004 -- Sweep 0.8.3 Released
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Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool for GNU/Linux, BSD and
compatible systems. It supports many music and voice formats including
WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex and MP3, with multichannel editing and
LADSPA effects plugins. Inside lives a pesky little virtual stylus called
Scrubby who enjoys mixing around in your files.

This release is available as a source tarball at:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sweep/sweep-0.8.3.tar.gz?download

Latest News
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This is a maintainance release, including a new Spanish translation,
various bugfixes and no new functionality.

Sweep has moved back into CVS at SourceForge. Five new developers have
been added to the project: Yuri Bongiorno, Erik de Castro Lopo, Torben Hohn,
Andr? Pang, and Alexandre Prokoudine.

Internationalization (i18n) improvements:
                                                                               
        * a new Spanish translation by Juan Manuel Martinez
        * an updated Italian translation by Yuri Bongiorno

Bugfixes:

        * resampler bug fixed by Erik de Castro Lopo
        * made main scrollbar arrows useful (bug #821596)
        * seven other bug reports closed
        * compile warning fixes for GCC3

The dependency on libtdb has been removed. TDB sources are now pulled
directly from the upstream Samba subversion repository.

Further information
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Screenshots:

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

Some interesting audio recordings of Scrubby are at:

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

Sweep is designed to be intuitive and to give you full control. It includes
almost everything you would expect in a sample 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 PCM file support
        * support for Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and Speex compressed audio files
        * sample rate conversion and channel operations
        * 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

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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