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

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


Summary of library dependencies:
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        * GTK+ 1.2 (standard in most Linux distributions)

        * libsndfile-1.0.x, available from:

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

        * libtdb, available in many distributions or at:

            http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/tdb

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.

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

        http://sweep.sourceforge.net/

Mailing Lists
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There are two mailing lists related to sweep:

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

sweep-devel. 
        For general discussion about sweep and development related issues. 

Archives of both lists 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:

        sweep-announce-request@lists.sourceforge.net
  or
        sweep-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net

as appropriate.


Licence
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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.

Contact
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If you have any further queries about Sweep, please contact the main
author:

Conrad Parker <conrad@vergenet.net>
