Version 0.1.1 of Sweep [1], a sound wave editor, is available from: http://download.sourceforge.net/sweep/sweep-0.1.1.tar.gz Sweep is an editor for sound files. It can edit various formats such as .wav, .aiff and .au, and has multiple undo/redo levels and filters. It is Free Software, available under the GNU General Public Licence. This release incorporates a new loadable plugin interface, support for ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture [2]) 0.6.0, support for LADSPA loadable effects modules, some new plugins, new Hungarian, Italian and German translations, and documentation updates, including a new Plugin Writers Guide [3]. LADSPA [4] is an effort amongst the Linux Audio Development community to produce a standardised interface for audio processing plugins. A large number of existing filter and effects plugins exist for LADSPA in the Computer Music Toolkit [5], including high and low pass filters, compressors, expanders and limiters. In order to gain maximal use of Sweep please install this toolkit. Thanks especially to Paul Barton-Davis, Nicolas Léveillé, Silvia Pfeiffer, Gergely Nagy and Yuri Bongiorno for contributions to this release. [1] Sweep http://sweep.sourceforge.net/ [2] Advanced Linux Sound Architecture http://www.alsa-project.org/ [3] Sweep Plugin Writer's Guide http://sweep.sourceforge.net/doc/plugin_writers_guide.txt [4] Linux Audio Developers Simple Plugin API http://www.ladspa.org/ [5] Computer Music Toolkit http://www.ladspa.org/cmt/ RedHat RPMs for i386 are available: ftp://sweep.sourceforge.net/pub/sweep/binaries/redhat/i386/sweep-0.1.1-1.i386.rpm ftp://sweep.sourceforge.net/pub/sweep/binaries/redhat/i386/sweep-devel-0.1.1-1.i386.rpm ChangeLog entry for this release: Sun Oct 8 14:55:21 EST 2000 Conrad Parker * merged in new native plugin interface * merged in ALSA 0.6.0 support from Paul Barton-Davis * added ladspameta plugin for LADSPA support * added byenergy plugin * added Hungarian translation by Gergely Nagy * added Italian translation by Yuri Bongiorno * added German translation by Silvia Pfeiffer * added plugin_writers_guide.txt in doc/ * set up include/ directory, moved sweep*.h header files to it * changed colour scheme * changed sweep.png desktop icon to match new colours * many small changes since version 0.0.9 * released version 0.1.0 Conrad.