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Sweep 0.9.3 released

From:  pete shorthose <zenadsl6252-AT-zen.co.uk>
To:  lwn-AT-lwn.net
Subject:  Sweep 0.9.3 released.
Date:  Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:55:22 +0100
Message-ID:  <20080411175522.69ee0b24.zenadsl6252@zen.co.uk>
Cc:  cola-AT-stump.algebra.com

Fri April 11 2008 -- Sweep 0.9.3 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-0.9.3.tar....


New in this release
-------------------

This is a bug fix release, containing the following changes:
		
	* Fixed bounds checking of mode in speex header. relates to:
	  http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-2.html
	* Fixed bug preventing device dialog being reopened when
	  closed via the window manager.

All users with speex handling enabled should upgrade.

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 :)


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