1 2SWEEP, a sound wave editor, brought to you by Conrad Parker 3----------------------------------------------------------- 4 5Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool for GNU/Linux, BSD and 6compatible systems. It supports many music and voice formats including 7WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex and MP3, with multichannel editing and 8LADSPA effects plugins. Inside lives a pesky little virtual stylus called 9Scrubby who enjoys mixing around in your files. 10 11Sweep is designed to be intuitive and to give you full control. It includes 12almost everything you would expect in a sound editor, and then some: 13 14 * precise, vinyl like scrubbing 15 * looped, reverse, and pitch-controlled playback 16 * playback mixing of unlimited independent tracks 17 * monitoring support for use with multiple audio devices 18 * looped and reverse recording 19 * internationalisation 20 * multichannel and 32 bit floating point file support 21 * Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and Speex compressed formats 22 * sample rate conversion and channel operations 23 * LADSPA 1.1 effects support 24 * multiple views, discontinuous selections 25 * easy keybindings, mouse wheel zooming 26 * unlimited undo/redo with fully revertible edit history 27 * multithreaded background processing 28 * shaded peak/mean waveform rendering, multiple colour schemes 29 30 31Summary of library dependencies: 32-------------------------------- 33 34REQUIRED: 35 36 * GTK+ 2.0, (version 2.4.0 or higher) standard in most 37 distributions and available from: 38 39 http://www.gtk.org/ 40 41 * libsndfile-1.0.x, available from: 42 43 http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/ 44 45 * Secret Rabbit Code, aka. libsamplerate, available from: 46 47 http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/ 48 49OPTIONAL: 50 51 * Ogg Vorbis libraries (high quality perceptual audio format): 52 53 http://www.vorbis.com/ 54 55 * libmad (MPEG audio loading), available from: 56 57 http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/ 58 59 * Speex library (an open speech compression format): 60 61 http://www.speex.org/ 62 63See the file INSTALL for building instructions. Generally all that is 64required, after the above libraries have been installed, is: 65 66 ./configure 67 make 68 make install 69 70If you are not sure what you need, simply run ./configure and it will probe 71your system and provide a reasonably useful summary. 72 73For information on enabling and disabling optional components, run 74./configure --help 75 76Homepage 77-------- 78 79Detailed information and new releases of Sweep can be found at: 80 81 http://sweep.sourceforge.net/ 82 83Mailing Lists 84------------- 85 86There are four mailing lists related to sweep: 87 88sweep-announce 89 which contains only announcements about new releases of sweep. 90This is a moderated list. 91 92sweep-users 93 For general discussion about using sweep 94 95sweep-devel 96 For discussion about sweep development related issues. 97 98sweep-i18n 99 For discussion of language translation issues. 100 101Archives of each list are available on the World Wide Web via the 102Sweep homepage. You can also subscribe or unsubscribe via a web 103interface. 104 105For more information about using these lists or to subscribe or 106unsubscribe via an email interface, send a message with just the word 107`help' as subject or in the body, to: 108 109 sweep-announce-request@lists.sourceforge.net 110 or 111 sweep-users-request@lists.sourceforge.net 112 or 113 sweep-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net 114 or 115 sweep-i18n-request@lists.sourceforge.net 116 117as appropriate. 118 119Internet Relay Chat 120------------------- 121 122For usage and developer discussion, join the channel #sweep on 123irc.freenode.net (established 2005). 124 125Licence 126------- 127 128This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 129it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 130the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or 131(at your option) any later version. 132 133This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 134but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 135MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 136GNU General Public License for more details. 137 138You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 139along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software 140Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, 141USA. 142 143Acknowledgements 144---------------- 145 146Thanks to Pixar Animation Studios and CSIRO Australia for supporting 147the development of this project. 148 149Contact 150------- 151 152If you have any further queries about Sweep, please contact the main 153author: 154 155Conrad Parker <conrad@vergenet.net> 156