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Chapter 38: Arranging Regions 825
The Strip Silence Window
The Strip Silence window contains the following
controls that let you set the parameters by
which silence is defined when using Strip Si-
lence.
Adjusting these controls causes rectangles to
temporarily appear in the selection, indicating
areas of silence that will be affected by the Strip,
Extract, or Separate commands.
Strip Threshold Sets the amplitude threshold
(from –96 dB to 0 dB) for Strip Silence. Audio
falling below this threshold is considered silence
and removed. Audio above the threshold is re-
tained and defined as new regions.
Minimum Strip Duration Sets the minimum dura-
tion (from 0 to 4,000 ms) that the material
above the threshold must last to be considered
silence. Use this control to avoid countless small
regions that may occur within a selection.
Region Start Pad Specifies a time value to be
added to the beginning of each new region cre-
ated with Strip Silence. This is useful for preserv-
ing musical material that falls below the thresh-
old, such as the breath before a vocal phrase, or
the finger slide before a guitar chord.
Region End Pad Specifies a time value to be ap-
pended to the end of each new region created
with Strip Silence, thereby preserving the nu-
ances in the decay of the material.
Strip Clears the detected silence, but leaves the
regions containing audio on the track.
Extract Clears the audio and leaves the silent
portions of the track (in other words, an “in-
verse” strip silence feature that is ideal for gener-
ating room tone or ambience to use elsewhere).
Rename Opens the Rename Selected Regions di-
alog (see “Auto-Naming for Strip Silence” on
page 823).
Separate Separates regions based on the bound-
aries detected by Strip Silence.
Strip Silence window
Strip Silence rectangles