Output of KISS FFT interpretation I'm receiving PCM data trough socket connection in packets containing 320 samples. Sample rate of sound is 8000 samples per second. I am doing with it something like this:

int size = 160 * 2;//160;
int isinverse = 1;
kiss_fft_scalar zero;
memset(&amp;zero,0,sizeof(zero));
kiss_fft_cpx fft_in[size];
kiss_fft_cpx fft_out[size];
kiss_fft_cpx fft_reconstructed[size];

kiss_fftr_cfg fft = kiss_fftr_alloc(size*2 ,0 ,0,0);
kiss_fftr_cfg ifft = kiss_fftr_alloc(size*2,isinverse,0,0);

for (int i = 0; i &lt; size; i++) {
    fft_in[i].r = zero;
    fft_in[i].i = zero;
    fft_out[i].r = zero;
    fft_out[i].i = zero;
    fft_reconstructed[i].r = zero;
    fft_reconstructed[i].i = zero;
}

// got my data through socket connection

for (int i = 0; i &lt; size; i++) {
     // samples are type of short
     fft_in[i].r = samples[i];
     fft_in[i].i = zero;
     fft_out[i].r = zero;
     fft_out[i].i = zero;
 }

 kiss_fftr(fft, (kiss_fft_scalar*) fft_in, fft_out);
 kiss_fftri(ifft, fft_out, (kiss_fft_scalar*)fft_reconstructed);

 // lets normalize samples
 for (int i = 0; i &lt; size; i++) {
     samples[i] = rint(fft_reconstructed[i].r/(size*2));
 }


After that I fill OpenAL buffers and play them. Everything works just fine but I would like to do some filtering of audio between kiss_fftr and kiss_fftri. Starting point as I think for this is to convert sound from time domain to frequency domain, but I don't really understand what kind of data I'm receiving from kiss_fftr function. What information is stored in each of those complex number, what its real and imaginary part can tell me about frequency. And I don't know which frequencies are covered (what frequency span) in fft_out - which indexes corresponds to which frequencies.

I am total newbie in signal processing and Fourier transform topics.

Any help?
What you might want to investigate is FFT fast convolution using overlap-add or overlap-save methods. You will need to expand the length of each FFT by the length of the impulse of your desired filter. This is because (1) FFT/IFFT convolution is circular, and (2) each index in the FFT array result corresponds to almost all frequencies (a Sinc shaped response), not just one (even if mostly concentrated near one), so any single bin modification will leak throughout the entire frequency response (except certain exact periodic frequencies).