Sweep 0.5.0 Development Release ------------------------------- This is the first public development release of Sweep since October 2000. Please try it out and provide feedback and testing. A general public release is scheduled for October 2002. 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://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/download/sweep-0.5.0.tar.gz The only dependencies are GTK+ 1.2 and libsndfile-1.0.0rc5. The first is standard in most Linux distributions, and the second is available at: http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/libsndfile-1.0.0rc5.tar.gz 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.