Kwave
Audio & Video

Kwave

Sound editor

KDE

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Description

Kwave is a sound editor that can record to, play, open, and edit many file formats. Kwave makes it simple to edit audio in many ways.

Adjust volume level:

• Fade in, fade out, or custom amplitude curve

• Scale volume by a constant factor

• Normalize volume

Adjust frequency content:

• Lowpass filter

• Bandpass filter

• Notch filter

• Pitch shift

Other features:

• Add noise

• Add silence

• Convert audio sample rate

• Go to position

• Insert audio from clipboard

• Reverse audio

• Save audio blocks between labels as separate files

• Sonagram (spectrogram)

Supported file formats:

• WAV (*.wav)

• Ogg/Opus (*.opus)

• Ogg/Vorbis (*.ogg)

• MP3 (*.mp3)

• FLAC (*.flac)

• ASCII coded audio (*.ascii)

• all file formats supported by libaudiofile (some formats are import only)

Version

v25.12.3Mar 11, 2026