Sweep 0.5.11 Development Release -------------------------------- 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-0.5.11.tar.gz?download NEW features in this release include: * mixing and crossfading paste methods: copy a region from one file and mix or fade it into another file or elsewhere in the same file, with control of source and destination levels and phase. * navigation shortcuts to move between selection edges: move the cursor between the start and end of selection regions, and to the next edge of a multi-region selection, with Ctrl + Arrow Left/Right * view memories: assign the viewable area to a number on the numeric keypad with Ctrl+<Num>, and zoom back to it later by pressing that number. (NB. Num Lock must be on on your keyboard). * support for Speex 1.0beta3 ultra-wideband mode (32kHz). Speex is a high quality, patent-free and open source voice codec. * support for full-file application of Secret Rabbit Code Additionally, minor bugs were fixed affecting portability of system error handling and detection of MP3 files. 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 * 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.