The Strip Silence window contains the following controls that let you set the parameters by which silence is defined when using Strip Silence.
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.
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 retained and defined as new clips.
Sets the minimum duration (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 clips that may occur within a selection.
Specifies a time value to be added to the beginning of each new clip created with Strip Silence. This is useful for preserving musical material that falls below the threshold, such as the breath before a vocal phrase, or the finger slide before a guitar chord.
Specifies a time value to be appended to the end of each new clip created with Strip Silence, thereby preserving the nuances in the decay of the material.
Clears the detected silence, but leaves the clips containing audio on the track.
Clears the audio and leaves the silent portions of the track (in other words, an “inverse” strip silence feature that is ideal for generating room tone or ambience to use elsewhere).
Separates clips based on the boundaries detected by Strip Silence.