The Kwave Handbook

Thomas Eschenbacher <thomas.eschenbacher@gmx.de>

Revision 0.7.11 (2007-12-09)

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

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

Relocating the binary RPM packages

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

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