Figure 8.9: The strip silence dialogue In addition, your target regions will be overlaid with light-blue areas which represent the areas that the strip silence dialogue currently considers to be ‘silence’. The main adjustment for this is the threshold; this is the level below which the region will be considered silent. In addition, the minimum length of a silent period can be specified, so that shorter below-threshold periods will be ignored. Finally, the dialogue offers a ‘fade length’ option which specifies what length of fade in and out will be applied if ‘Apply’ is pressed and some parts are stripped out of the region. Clicking ‘Apply’ will split the target regions as required, leaving only those areas which it considers non-silent.
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Rhythm Ferret
Rhythm Ferret is a tool which can analyse regions in a couple of different ways, looking for particular features (like note onsets or transients like percussion hits). It can then perform various operations on the region based on these features. To open the Rhythm Ferret dialogue, choose Rhythm Ferret from the Edit menu. This will open the dialogue box shown in Figure 8.10.