Features

Main Features

• running on a large variety of platforms
• precompiled packages available for many distributions
• built on KDE Frameworks 5
• documentation of the internal command / macro language and all plugins
• 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, Qt Multimedia (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)
  • import of Sample Vision Format (*.smp)
  • import of NIST SPHERE Audio File Format (*.nist)
  • import of Creative Voice files (*.voc)
  • import of Audio Visual Research File Format (*.avr)
  • import of Amiga IFF/8SVX Sound File Format (*.8svx)
• 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)

Documentation

Documentation is available in the Kwave handbook which is included in the package and is also available online.