Introduction
Kwave is a sound editor designed for the KDE
Desktop Environment.
It is still under continuous development but each official release should be
considered to be stable. This is also the reason why releases come out
only every few months: one of the goals of the project is to have a
reliable and stable sound editor. Stability has a higher prority than
the number of features. (The reason why I started to join this project
was that I wanted to have a sound editor that does not crash every few
minutes...)
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Main Features
- KDE conform GUI
- 24 Bit Support
- Undo/Redo
- Simple Drag & Drop
- Realtime Pre-Listen for some effects
- Support for multi-track files
- Complete zoom and scroll-capability
- Playback via KDE's aRts and native ALSA (or OSS, deprecated)
- Recording via native ALSA (or OSS, deprecated)
- 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
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Plugins
- Amplify free
- Fadein and out
- Lowpass Filter
- Notch Filter
- Pitch Shift
- Playback
- Recording
- Silence
- Noise
- Sonagram
- Select Range
- Volume
- Import/Export of all file types supported by libaudiofile
- Import of MP3 through libmad and
id3lib
- Import/Export of Ogg/Vorbis
- Import/Export of FLAC
- ASCII export
- saving blocks
(some more will be follow soon)
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Documentation
Be aware, currently there is not much extra documentation available. Most stuff is
included in the Kwave handbook that is included
in the package and is also available online.
So you might have to find out the way some things works for yourself what should be
quite easy as we try to follow the
KDE guidelines for user interfaces.
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Some history
After the big port to KDE2 (v0.5 to v0.6) it has temporarily fallen back
to alpha state and some of the features of the old v0.5 had to come
back slowly, one by one.
However, the program already seemed to be useful for many people for most
all-day work.
Many missing functions and features will be ported in future versions...
Please keep in mind that the step from 0.5 to 0.6 was nearly a complete rewrite of
the whole program and it's internal architecture! The main focus was on robustness
and a clean design, not on the pure amount of features.
Version 0.7 was the first one with recording support.
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