Chapter 1. Introduction

This is "Kwave", a simple sound editor for KDE3. Its features include:

simple cut, copy and paste functions
multi-level undo/redo
labeling of signals
Recording functionality, including pre-recording
Playback via aRts, ALSA and OSS
Recording via ALSA and OSS
MP3 import
Ogg/Vorbis import/export
FLAC import/export
some analysis functions such as Sonagram
internally uses 24 bit fixed precision for sample data
free selectable sample rates
support for editing of multi-channel files
playback of multi-channel audio files (audio output will be mixed down to mono or stereo)
extendible through an easy-to-use plugin interface
import/export of other audio formats through audiofile

If you are interested what has been done and what has still to be done, then look at the files CHANGES and TODO included in the source package. Help and constructive critics are always welcome.

Kwave Resources

So if you want to get in contact with the developers, need some further help on using Kwave, submit patches, bug reports or other stuf, the following resources might be of interest for you:

Project Homepage
For informations about new up-to-date releases or some other information about this project, take a look at the Kwave homepage
Mailing List
If you need some help on using Kwave or want to get involved in the development, join the Kwave developer mailing list by visiting "https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kwave-devel".
SVN Repository
There also is a SVN repository, hosted by SourceForge where you can get the sources of the latest development version. For instructions on how to get access to the repository, read in the chapter about building from SVN, look at "http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=6478", or just browse through the SVN tree through a nice web interface.