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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