kwave 20.04.1 Sound editor for KDE

Kwave is a sound editor designed for the KDE Desktop Environment.

With Kwave you can record, play back, import and edit many sorts of audio files including multi-channel files. It includes some plugins to transform audio files in several ways and presents a graphical view with a complete zoom- and scroll capability.

Its features include:

  • 24 Bit 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 (or OSS, deprecated)

  • Playback via PulseAudio and 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