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Description

Sweep is a sound wave editor. It operates on files of various formats such as .wav, .aiff and .au, and has multiple undo/redo levels and filters. It is Free Software, available under the GNU General Public Licence. A feature list and screenshots are available.

There is also an introductory tutorial explaining how to get started.

Features

Loading and saving of PCM encoded sound formats including AIFF, Sun/NeXT AU and WAV.
Multiple views of each sound: you can view different parts of the same sound in different windows simultaneously, with variable zooming in each view. You can view the entire sound at once, or zoom right down to the individual sample values.
Discontinuous selections: you can select regions of a sound with the mouse. By holding down the <Shift> key whilst selecting more regions, each region is added to the total selection. Also, selection boundaries can be moved, and selection regions merged, at any time.
Cut, copy and paste: conventional cut or copy selected regions of a sound, and paste into the same or other sounds.
Smart undo and redo: all operations are reversible and can be re-applied. The undo routines are tuned to each operation for maximum efficiency.
A native plugin mechanism
Support for LADSPA effects plugins.
Playback: playback of entire sound, or of selected regions only. Looped playback of entire sound or selected regions. Editing and effects are not disabled during playback, giving you instantaneous feedback of the result of each action.
Piano-style playback: the computer keyboard keys behave like musical keys for playback of instrument samples, so you can hear how the sample will sound when used in a sequencer or tracker.
Separate volume levels per view, which can be adjusted with the mouse wheel if available.
Support for Open Sound System compatible audio devices (eg. stock Linux kernel), ALSA 0.6.0 and Solaris audio.
Translations for French, Hungarian, Italian and German.

All features are easily accessible by pressing the right mouse button over any sound wave, and common functions have easily remembered key bindings.

Source

http://sweep.sourceforge.net/features.php

Installation

Build & Installation Under Solaris

Steps

./configure --prefix=/shared/local
make
make check

make install

Help

Solaris audio support was added in sweep version 0.0.9. It is configured in automatically. To build a Solaris binary do:

./configure
make

Compiling For Multiple Architectures

You can compile the package for more than one kind of computer at the same time, by placing the object files for each architecture in their own directory. To do this, you must use a version of 'make' that supports the 'VPATH' variable, such as GNU 'make'. 'cd' to the directory where you want the object files and executables to go and run the 'configure' script. 'configure' automatically checks for the source code in the directory that 'configure' is in and in '..'.