Using Sweep: Fun with Scrubby

[studio32]

Introduction

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.

This is an introductory tutorial about using Sweep for editing and experimenting with digital audio. You will find out how to make your Linux box make sounds that you have never heard before, and you might also learn something useful about editing audio files.
Although Sweep is quite powerful, it is an easy to use desktop application and its interface contains none of the esoteric "wierd shit" common in audio software.

Sweep harbours a pesky little virtual stylus tool called "Scrubby" who will invade your mind and make you want to remix your entire CD collection in one day.

In this tutorial you will learn:

- basic audio editing
- how to use many free LADSPA effects plugins including compression, delays, distortion and filters
- immersive loop mode recording
- beatmixing and scrubbing technique
- how to play with digital sampling



http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep ... book1.html

[jukingeo]

Hello,

I am curious if Sweep is as good as, worse, or better than Audacity.

From the outside looking in, it seems that it is a similar type of program.

Thanx,
Geo

[studio32]

Rezound is great, but has some bugs in the jack connections. Audacity is decent, but shows up in jack only when it is playing. I'll try sweep and look how it handles jack..

[steevc]

I used Sweep when editing some recordings made on my Zoom H4. I just wanted to extract the good bits and save each as a file. This worked okay on short recordings, but when I loaded a 1+ hour MP3 it got very slow and seemed to use up most of my memory. I'm running a dual-core AMD with 2GB.

I ended up using Audacity instead for that one. It used minimal memory and was very responsive. I've had some issues with getting playback working sometimes, but on that occasion it worked.

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Steve