kwave 0.7.7 review

Kwave is a sound editor designed for the KDE Desktop Environment. It is still under continuous development but each official rele

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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...)

After the big port to KDE2 it has temporarily fallen back to alpha state and some of the features of the old 0.5 version only will come back one by one. However, the program already seems 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.

Here are some key features of "kwave":
KDE3 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 or OSS (deprecated)
Recording via OSS
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

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

What's New in This Release:
new feature: implemented a small widget that shows the current selection position and the selection borders
new feature: context menu for the signal widget (right mouse button)
improved file open dialog: show "All Files" and "All Supported Files"
bugfix: error in handling of mouse selection
bugfix: recording only used the first channel (closes sourceforge bug #1551050)
install plugins kde_moduledir/plugins/kwave instead of kde_datadir/kwave/plugins