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The Kwave Handbook

Thomas Eschenbacher

Revision 0.8.2 (2009-04-25)

Copyright © 1998-2000 Martin Wilz

Copyright © 2009 Thomas Eschenbacher

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Kwave is a simple sound editor for KDE.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
Kwave Resources
Kwave Revision History
2. Installation
How to obtain Kwave
Requirements
Manual Compilation and installation
Build options
Building RPM packages from tar.gz archives
With working rpmbuild -ta
With broken rpmbuild -ta support
Building RPM packages from SVN
Checking out the sources
Updating sources from SVN
Compiling
Building CPU optimized packages
RPM optimizations
How to pass optimizer options to the compiler manually
3. Basics about digital audio
The analogue world
Digitalization
Sample Encoding
Sample Formats
4. Using Kwave
Memory Setup
Command Line
Opening and Saving files
Supported File formats
Converting to and from .wav
Format of ASCII files
Creating a New File
Recording
Playback
File Properties
Zooming and navigating
Zooming in and out
Scrolling left and right
Using the overview
Vertical zoom
How to select
Selecting channels
Selecting samples
Clipboard
Drag and Drop
5. Developer's Guide to Kwave
Adding support for a new Language
6. Questions and Answers
7. Credits and License

List of Examples

4.1. content of an ASCII file with a single sine wave
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