[linux-audio-announce] Sweep 0.9.2 Released

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 :)