Kwave is a sound editor designed for the KDE Desktop Environment.
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 With Kwave you can record, play back, import and edit many sorts of audio
 files including multi-channel files.
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 Kwave includes some plugins to transform audio files in several ways and
 presents a graphical view with a complete zoom- and scroll capability.
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 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