I'd like to trim silence before and after audio in a quick way. Any tools that do that?

Renoise Tools
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Hey there,

I have 0 coding skills and I tried xCleaner, which didn’t work. Any suggestions on Tools that do this?

Cheers

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There are options in the cdp tool that cover this, but setting it up might be a hassle compared to other tool options. I think paketti also has a few silence cutting options, but these tools come with a lot of additional stuff that you might not need?

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Thanks for that. I will look into paketti it seems. Maybe there’s some other useful stuff in there as well.

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Installed it and it looks like it adds tons of usefulness to Renoise so thanks for the tip.

As far as the “strip silence” feature, it did the job but it takes longer for it to do it than going by hand so for that particular problem I’m still looking for a solution.

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Isn’t the function linked to a possible keyboard shortcut? So you can map it to whatever key combo you prefer?

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I haven’t tried it, but maybe it can be done using sox?

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Possibly, but what I meant was stalling was the actual processing time.

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thanks, will have a look.

edit: it doesn’t appear in the search. the original post is almost 12 years old, could that be the reason?

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Just like that tool, there are countless tools that aren’t registered on the Tools page, but are simply dropped into the forum.
I remembered this because I had previously collaborated with an acquaintance to try most of them and compiled them into a spreadsheet.

In other words, searching not only the Tools page but also the #renoise-tools category in the forum will make it easier to find what you’re looking for.

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dBatch Process does indeed have a trim silences process, but I’ve had errors thrown when applying batch processes since 3.5. individual samples process fine, though. Anyone else having issues with this?

dBatch process (sox) also contains the excellent “contrast” process, which is great for beefing up samples, especially percussion, but can also introduce clipping distortion with excessive values

I suppose I should be posting in the sox thread :upside_down_face:

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hi, i made paketti

so, all i can really say is that paketti uses the renoise LUA api to do the silence removal, and it is not as fast as the Renoise native stuff (like normalize, reverse, etc), and it can’t really be optimized to be faster, unless if i wanna start throwing Sox at it, making the situation more complex and possibly more brittle. but thanks for giving it a shot, and if i ever figure out how to speed up the trim silence before/after audio, or normalize, or reverse processes, i’ll be sure to look at how to improve them - i want it to be as fast or faster than Renoise natively, currently, not sure if it’ll ever be possible to get to be as fast as Renoise is natively, via lua scripting, but hopefully one day there’ll be ways to tweak it and optimize it.

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That’s good info, cheers.

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Hei, I should be thanking you instead :slight_smile: Thanks for developing such a useful set of tools that greatly improve Renoise. It just happens that I’m currently in the market for this particular feature, but I saw many other things that will come in handy for general work.

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Cool, thanks for confirming. Downloaded it now and will give it a shot!

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Couldn’t get dBatchProcess to do it. I could always use an external editor I guess.

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hi, you said you used the dBatch processing - is there something specific you’re looking to do?

like, are you looking to trim silence before and after audio, that’s loaded into Renoise

or, are you looking to trim silence before and after audio, of all samples, on a folder?

@sonfx do keep me posted :slight_smile:

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I find it meditaive to do it manually. I have gotten really good at it with shortcuts. On a per song basis of course. hehe

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another person’s meditative is another person’s manual labor which should be automated to free up space to work on music instead of

surely there’s room for both

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Ya I get it…it a big automated AI world these days. And don’t call me Shirley. :zany_face:

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It would be convenient if Paketti could support any program that functions as a filter, such as sox, ffmpeg, or arbitrary shell scripts.
I wrote this request.

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