Wed Apr 30 2003 -- Sweep 0.8.2 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-0.8.2.tar.gz?download Latest News ----------- This release contains support for ALSA 0.9; this is configurable and could do with widespread testing. To build with ALSA support, simply configure with: ./configure --enable-alsa Note that doing this will build a binary which will work with ALSA only, and not attempt to use OSS. In future this will be replaced with plugins for different pcm i/o methods, which should ease binary distribution. Internationalization (i18n) improvements: * a complete audit of untranslateable strings, including mis-configured source files and unmarked strings, by Silvia Pfeiffer. * a new Greek translation by Dokianakis Fanis * a new Russian translation by Alexandre Prokoudine * an updated Italian translation by Yuri Bongiorno * an updated German translation by Silvia Pfeiffer There is a new mailing list: sweep-i18n. List information is at http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sweep-i18n Additional changes include: * added VBR without DTX option for Speex 1.0 speech encoding * improved accuracy of sliders in processing dialogs Events: Conrad will presenting and demoing Sweep at the following upcoming events: Jul 10-13 LinuxTag 2003 (Karlsruhe, Germany) Conference and Linux Audio Dev (LAD) exhibition booth http://www.linuxtag.org/ Jul 31 - Aug 3 UKUUG Linux Developers Conference (Edinburgh, Scotland) http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2003/ Plus, the Call for Participation for the Linux Audio Mini-Conf @ LCA2004 (Jan 12-13 2004, Adelaide, South Australia) is announced: http://www.metadecks.org/events/lca2004/ 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.