[linux-audio-announce] Sweep 0.8.4 Released

Mon Aug 22 2005 -- Sweep 0.8.4 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-0.8.4.tar.gz?download New in this release ------------------- This is maintainance release, including: * updates for ALSA 1.0 (Daniel Dreschers, Charles Turner), * a new Polish translation (Radoslaw Korzeniewski), * an updated russian translation (Alex Prokoudine), * a small fix to the German translation, and * various minor tweaks and improvements. Release plans ------------- This is likely to be the last Sweep release based on GTK+-1.2. Further development will use GTK+-2.0 for the interface. Over the last year, Peter Shorthose has developed a comprehensive set of GTK+-2.0 patches for Sweep, and will handle their merging and ongoing release management towards Sweep 1.0. Welcome Peter! Development news ---------------- The trunk of sweep CVS has been migrated to a new Subversion repository. You can check it out by: svn co http://svn.metadecks.org/sweep/trunk sweep svn.metadecks.org can also be browsed via trac at: http://trac.metadecks.org/ 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 :) Conrad.