Hi, Conrad:
A quick question: I have libsndfile 0.0.28 installed here, I need it
because Ardour doesn't yet utilize 1.0.0. Is there some way I can
compile Sweep against the older libsndfile, or do you have any
suggestions for both versions co-existing ?
Best regards,
== Dave Phillips
The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm
The Linux Soundapps Site at http://linux-sound.org
Conrad Parker wrote:
>
> Sweep 0.5.0 Development Release
> -------------------------------
>
> This is the first public development release of Sweep since October 2000.
> Please try it out and provide feedback and testing!
>
> Sweep is a sound wave editor, and it is now also generally useful as a
> flexible recording and playback tool. Inside lives a pesky little virtual
> stylus called Scrubby who enjoys mixing around in your files.
>
> This development release is available as a source tarball at:
>
> http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/download/sweep-0.5.0.tar.gz
>
> The only dependencies are GTK+ 1.2 and libsndfile-1.0.0rc5. The first is
> standard in most Linux distributions, and the second is available at:
>
> http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/libsndfile-1.0.0rc5.tar.gz
>
> Screenshot:
> http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/images/screenshots/sweep_20020813.png
>
> Sweep is designed to be intuitive and to give you full control. It includes
> almost everything you would expect in a sound 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 file support
> * 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
>
> Help wanted! Sweep needs testing; please report any problems encountered!
> Urgent development is required in the following areas: ALSA and Jack support,
> updating of translations and user documentation.
>
> 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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