Looking for software or somekind of multiple sample editor

[uporo]

Not sure if this belongs in here but since this community deals with samples i might as well ask…

I have got tons of samples from various sources, and for example Philharmonia Orchestra´s sound exchance contains tons of samples with lot´s of silent before and after a sample, so i am asking that is there a software that would cut silent parts automatically. Since it takes forever manually.

[vvoois (vV)]

Well, here are some tools that do some form of automatic silence removal:

New Tool : Sample Utilities

Here four tools I wrote that add some functions to the sample editor. The code is largely inspired from Beatslaughter’s Mixer Utilities and from IT-Alien’s Add/Remove Silence tools, so many thanks to them! Trim Silence will trim the silent parts at the beginning and/or the end of a sample. The start and end points are calculated using a simple threshold approach, nothing like transient detection, but you can specify different thresholds for start and end, add some fixed margin and make small f…

Tool (2.7): Add/Remove Silence

Adds the ability to either destructively remove silent parts of a sample (sounds that fall below a threshold), and the ability to add silence to the end or beginning of a sample. The latter can often be useful for FX processing. Shows up as ‘Add Silence…’ and ‘Remove Silence…’ in the Sample Editor’s ‘Process’ context menu. visit its page. I actually made this quite a lot of time ago but forgot to add it to the tools page [:)]

Someone might be able to improve them and allow them batch processing on multiple samples/instruments…

[uporo]

@vV

Well, here are some tools that do some form of automatic silence removal:
New Tool : Sample Utilities
Tool (2.7): Add/Remove Silence
Someone might be able to improve them and allow them batch processing on multiple samples/instruments…

The following tools have been disabled, because they are not compatible with this version of Renoise:

com.renoise.AddRemoveSilence

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com.bystrano.SampleUtilities

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[carmazine]

If you are on linux you can write a script which calls SoX program. I can’t tell you how to exactly do this but if I were you that would be where I would start looking.

[_39_nix]

Audacity

[_39_nix]

@'nix

Audacity

Effect > Truncate Silence

• do not use 0 for “Max silence duration” but at least 1-5 milliseconds
• as soon you are happy with your settings tuned, you can go ahead processing a batch of samples

File > Edit Chains… > add

“truncate silence”

Insert > TruncateSilence > OK (your tuned settings appear in “Parameter” field)

File > Apply Chain… > Apply to files…

[delt]

Use sox in a simple shell command or a shell script.

something like…

  
mkdir newfiles  
for file in *.wav; do  
 sox [options] "$file" "newfiles/$file"  
done  
  

for [options] i don’t remember in every detail, you’ll need to look at the manpage/documentation for (current) sox.

I do remember you can set the amount of dB under which signal is considered silence.

[uporo]

@delt

Use sox in a simple shell command or a shell script.

something like…

  
mkdir newfiles  
for file in *.wav; do  
 sox [options] "$file" "newfiles/$file"  
done  
  

for [options] i don’t remember in every detail, you’ll need to look at the manpage/documentation for (current) sox.

I do remember you can set the amount of dB under which signal is considered silence.

Looks like i am installing linux now… Thank you.

[Loolarge]

This is a very handy tip. i just tried it like this:

sox “24- detective_mp3.wav” out.wav silence -l 1 1 1

worked like a charm!