[linux-audio-announce] Sweep 0.9.2 Released

From: peter <zenadsl6252@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Feb 07 2007 - 03:14:31 EET

Wed Feb 7 2007 -- Sweep 0.9.2 Released
=======================================

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-0.9.2.tar.gz?download

New in this release
-------------------

        * ALSA is now the default driver. see README.OSS for oss
        * minimum supported gtk version raised to 2.4
        * added the "hand tool" for panning the display with inertia
          (Radoslaw Korzeniewski)
        * can now open multiple files via the gtk file selector
        * implemented accel editing via the usual gtk method
        * added tdb lock override (Takashi Iwai)
        * remove support for libsndfile0 (Erik de Castro Lopo)
        * remove direct flac support as it's supported by libsndfile now
          (Erik de Castro Lopo)
        * added a new splash screen (Pascal Klein)
        * fix segfault when closing windows while others were still loading
        * other bugs addressed and changes made. run "svn log" on a copy of svn
          trunk for details, or check http://trac.metadecks.org/timeline

Further information
-------------------

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 :)

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