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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.