Kwave

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Sound editor.

Features

Main Features

• Running on a large variety of platforms

• Precompiled packages available for many distributions

• Available for KDE 4

• GUI can be used in SDI, MDI or Tab mode

• 24 Bit Audio Support

• Undo/Redo

• Use of multicore CPUs (SMP, hyperthreading)

• Simple Drag & Drop

• Realtime Pre-Listen for some effects

• Support for multi-track files

• Playback and recording via native ALSA, PulseAudio (or OSS, deprecated)

• Playback via Phonon

• Load and edit-capability for large files (can use virtual memory)

• Reading and auto-repair of damaged wav-files

• Supports multiple windows

• Extendable Plugin interface

• A nice splashscreen

• Some label handling

Supported File Formats

• WAV Audio (*.wav)

• Ogg/Opus codec (*.opus)

• Ogg/Vorbis audio (*.ogg)

• MP3-Audio (*.mpga *.mp3) and MPEG Layer1 Audio (*.mpga *.mpg *.mp1) (import through libmad and id3lib, export through external encoders like lame)

• FLAC Audio (*.flac)

• All file types supported by libaudiofile:
  • AIFF,Amiga,Mac-Audio (*.aifc *.aiff *.aif)
  • ULAW (Sun)-Audio (*.au *.snd)
  • Berkeley,IRCAM,Carl Sound Format (*.sf)

• ASCII coded Audio (*.ascii)

Plugins

• Amplify free

• Fadein and out

• Go to position

• Insert at position

• Lowpass Filter

• Noise

• Normalize

• Notch Filter

• Pitch Shift

• Playback

• Recording

• Reverse

• Silence

• Samplerate

• Sonagram

• Select Range

• Save Blocks

• Volume

• Zero

• (some more will be follow in future)

Hints, Tips and Troubleshooting

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