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Tue Jan 30 2007 -- Sweep 0.9.2 Released |
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Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool for GNU/Linux, BSD and |
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compatible systems. It supports many music and voice formats including |
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WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex and MP3, with multichannel editing and |
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LADSPA effects plugins. Inside lives a pesky little virtual stylus called |
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Scrubby who enjoys mixing around in your files. |
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This release is available as a source tarball at: |
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http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sweep/sweep-0.9.2.tar.gz?download |
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New in this release |
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* ALSA is now the default driver. see README.OSS for oss |
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* minimum supported gtk version raised to 2.4 |
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* added the "hand tool" for panning the display with inertia |
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(Radoslaw Korzeniewski) |
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* can now open multiple files via the gtk file selector |
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* implemented accel editing via the usual gtk method |
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* added tdb lock override (Takashi Iwai) |
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* remove support for libsndfile0 (Erik de Castro Lopo) |
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* remove direct flac support as it's supported by libsndfile now |
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(Erik de Castro Lopo) |
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* added a new splash screen (Pascal Klein) |
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* fix segfault when closing windows while others were still loading |
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* other bugs addressed and changes made. run "svn log" on a copy of svn |
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trunk for details, or check http://trac.metadecks.org/timeline |
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Further information |
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Screenshots: |
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http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/screenshots/ |
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Some interesting audio recordings of Scrubby are at: |
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http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/demos.html |
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Sweep is designed to be intuitive and to give you full control. It includes |
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almost everything you would expect in a sample editor, and then some: |
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* precise, vinyl like scrubbing |
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* looped, reverse, and pitch-controlled playback |
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* playback mixing of unlimited independent tracks |
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* looped and reverse recording |
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* internationalisation |
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* multichannel and 32 bit floating point PCM file support |
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* support for Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and Speex compressed audio files |
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* sample rate conversion and channel operations |
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* LADSPA 1.1 effects support |
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* multiple views, discontinuous selections |
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* easy keybindings, mouse wheel zooming |
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* unlimited undo/redo with fully revertible edit history |
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* multithreaded background processing |
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* shaded peak/mean waveform rendering, multiple colour schemes |
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Sweep is Free Software, available under the GNU General Public License. |
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More information is available at: |
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http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/ |
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Thanks to Pixar Animation Studios and CSIRO Australia for supporting the |
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development of this project. |
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enjoy :) |
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