[linux-audio-announce] Sweep 0.5.12 Released

[Conrad Parker]

Sweep 0.5.12 Development Release
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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 development release is available as a source tarball at:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sweep/sweep-0.5.12.tar.gz?download


NEW in this release:

        * an updated Italian translation from Yuri Bongiorno

        * resample (sample rate conversion): change the sample rate of a
        file, for example from CD format to DAT format, or to any arbitrary
        sample rate. This requires Erik de Castro Lopo's newly released
        libsamplerate, available from http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/

        * preview cut: hear how the area around the selection will sound
        after the selection is cut out, including the parts between
        selection regions for multi-region selections.

        * preroll to cursor: play one second of sound leading up to the
        cursor; useful for hearing the cursor position without moving it.

Bugs were fixed in MP3 loading and pitched playback (using QWERTY keys).


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.