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SWEEP, a sound wave editor, brought to you by Conrad Parker

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.

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
* monitoring support for use with multiple audio devices
    * looped and reverse recording
    * internationalisation
    * multichannel and 32 bit floating point file support
* Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and Speex compressed formats
* 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

Summary of library dependencies:

REQUIRED:

    * GTK+ 2.0, (version 2.4.0 or higher) standard in most 
  distributions and available from:

    http://www.gtk.org/

    * libsndfile-1.0.x, available from:

        http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/

* Secret Rabbit Code, aka. libsamplerate, available from:

    http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/

OPTIONAL:

* Ogg Vorbis libraries (high quality perceptual audio format):

    http://www.vorbis.com/

* libmad (MPEG audio loading), available from:

    http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/	

* Speex library (an open speech compression format):

    http://www.speex.org/

See the file INSTALL for building instructions. Generally all that is required, after the above libraries have been installed, is:

./configure
make
make install

If you are not sure what you need, simply run ./configure and it will probe your system and provide a reasonably useful summary.

For information on enabling and disabling optional components, run ./configure --help

Homepage

Detailed information and new releases of Sweep can be found at:

    http://sweep.sourceforge.net/

Mailing Lists

There are four mailing lists related to sweep:

sweep-announce which contains only announcements about new releases of sweep. This is a moderated list.

sweep-users For general discussion about using sweep

sweep-devel For discussion about sweep development related issues.

sweep-i18n For discussion of language translation issues.

Archives of each list are available on the World Wide Web via the Sweep homepage. You can also subscribe or unsubscribe via a web interface.

For more information about using these lists or to subscribe or unsubscribe via an email interface, send a message with just the word `help' as subject or in the body, to:

    [email protected]

or [email protected] or [email protected] or [email protected]

as appropriate.

Internet Relay Chat

For usage and developer discussion, join the channel #sweep on irc.freenode.net (established 2005).

Licence

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.