Sweep 0.8.3 Released

Fri Apr 30 2004 -- Sweep 0.8.3 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-0.8.3.tar.gz?download


Latest News
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This is a maintainance release, including a new Spanish translation,
various bugfixes and no new functionality.

Sweep has moved back into CVS at SourceForge. Five new developers have
been added to the project: Yuri Bongiorno, Erik de Castro Lopo, Torben Hohn,
Andr? Pang, and Alexandre Prokoudine.

Internationalization (i18n) improvements:
                                                                               
	* a new Spanish translation by Juan Manuel Martinez
        * an updated Italian translation by Yuri Bongiorno

Bugfixes:

	* resampler bug fixed by Erik de Castro Lopo 
	* made main scrollbar arrows useful (bug #821596)
	* seven other bug reports closed
	* compile warning fixes for GCC3

The dependency on libtdb has been removed. TDB sources are now pulled
directly from the upstream Samba subversion repository.


Further information
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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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