Sweep 0.8.4 Released

From: Conrad Parker (conrad_at_metadecks.org)
Date: 08/22/05

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    Mon Aug 22 2005 -- Sweep 0.8.4 Released
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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 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.

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