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General usage

These screenshots show some of Sweep's general editing features. The file displayed is Drumswork by Gabriele Trombetti, a short electronic music piece which he provides as a benchmark track for comparing the quality of the various lossy encoders.

Waveform view [41 kB PNG]

Waveform view [41 kB PNG]

This is the main application window in Sweep. The two waveforms shown represent the left (above) and right (below) channels of a stereo WAV file. The grey regions indicate peaks and the dark regions indicate average values for the audio data. Time offsets in hours, minutes and seconds are shown above the waveforms.

This window also includes a standard editing toolbar and playback controls.

Zoom [26 kB PNG]

Zoom [26 kB PNG]

You can zoom right in to individual PCM data values using the mouse wheel if available, arrow keys or the zoom control located in the top right corner of the window. The number in the dropdown box indicates the duration of sound visible in the window -- in this case 0.003 seconds.

Extended selections [45 kB PNG]

Extended selections [45 kB PNG]

All edits and processing in Sweep can operate on extended (multi-region) selections.

Selection boundaries can be dragged with the mouse and new regions can be added to the selection by holding down the Control key while dragging the mouse.

Edit History [15 kB PNG]

Edit History [15 kB PNG]

Sweep maintains a history of your editing session, and you can easily undo and redo through many previous operations.

A Screenshot Tour of Sweep: Next: File Dialogs

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