Every major DAW, including Pro Tools, Cubase, Studio One, and so on, has a “strip silence” command to remove sections of audio regions that have no audio. You select the track, choose Strip Silence, and then set a threshold for how low the level needs to be to count as “silence.” This way, you can raise the threshold high enough for your DAW to consider guitar amplifier hiss as “silence” while keeping it low enough to not cut off your guitar signal. That’s what Strip Silence is for, to remove unwanted noise, right?

Yes, but you can also use Strip Silence to split your audio into regions, even if you aren’t suffering a noise problem. For example, you may only have vocals in certain sections of the song, and want to split your vocal regions into different segments for different song parts. In this case, you can select your track and use Strip Silence to give you as many regions as you want, even if noise isn’t an issue — just reduce the threshold of the Strip Silence.

You can even use this method on virtual instruments. First, render your virtual instrument track to audio. Then, use Strip Silence on the newly rendered track. As in the case above, you can adjust the threshold to be extremely low, as noise won’t be a problem. Remember, Strip Silence can a great way to create regions between sections of your audio material quickly, and doesn’t need to be used as simply a track-based noise gate.

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