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.

Kwave 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, PulseAudio (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