Split long audio file into small ones

[Jolaff]

Let say you have you have a long audio file with many drum hits or whatever sounds recorded on it and you would like to have all those hits in separate audio files without silence at the end nor at the beginning.

What DAW would you use and how would you proceed ?
Also, particularly in Ableton ...what would be the simplest way to do it.

For now the simplest way I found is in Cubase as explain in this video :

Thanx

[tooneba]

In FL I do it with following 3 steps. Open Edison, click 'Trim all noise & Slice up' and 'Export Regions'. I tried but unfortunately idk how to do it in ableton.

[NTO]

Don't use Live, but...
Just did a lot of these in Audacity(free).
Open file
Select all
Menu Analyse > Sound finder - set params
Menu File > Export multiple - set naming - select folder

[Jolaff]

In FL I do it with following 3 steps. Open Edison, click 'Trim all noise & Slice up' and 'Export Regions'. I tried but unfortunately idk how to do it in ableton.

I think there is a workaround in Live but the one I found was from 2009 and I wasn't able to do it in Live 10.

Don't use Live, but...
Just did a lot of these in Audacity(free).
Open file
Select all
Menu Analyse > Sound finder - set params
Menu File > Export multiple - set naming - select folder

Thanx ! I just tried it and that's perfect !

[thecontrolcentre]

https://www.musictech.net/tutorials/sli ... eton-live/

[Jbravo]

I used to use a really simple tool called wavknife. It would detect gaps and chop a large file into seperate ones. You can probably still find it somewhere

[Jolaff]

https://www.musictech.net/tutorials/sli ... eton-live/

But that doesn't create new samples.

[Shabdahbriah]

I used to use a really simple tool called wavknife. It would detect gaps and chop a large file into seperate ones. You can probably still find it somewhere

me too.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170622191 ... knife.html

[surreal]

Check

[GaryG]

I'd probably use Reaper, it's dynamic split function seems reliable.

Though for quickly splitting up vinyl rips, shows etc I've found Wavosaur standalone audio editor the best, just seems to find the split point quickest with the least fuss.

[alex921]

You can do it ableton live pretty simple, as shown in the video:

[AnX]

wavknife

[alex921]

How exactly does waveknife work? I tried it on a file, it couldn't detect a thing. You're much better of with the video I described in my previous post. Or use this program by Bjoern Bojahr called Session 2 WAV: https://www.kvraudio.com/product/sessio ... ern-bojahr

[Jolaff]

How exactly does waveknife work? I tried it on a file, it couldn't detect a thing. You're much better of with the video I described in my previous post. Or use this program by Bjoern Bojahr called Session 2 WAV: https://www.kvraudio.com/product/sessio ... ern-bojahr

Your video is good to split loops .....but what if sounds are seperated with silences... I don't think it would remove them....

[alex921]

How exactly does waveknife work? I tried it on a file, it couldn't detect a thing. You're much better of with the video I described in my previous post. Or use this program by Bjoern Bojahr called Session 2 WAV: https://www.kvraudio.com/product/sessio ... ern-bojahr

Your video is good to split loops .....but what if sounds are seperated with silences... I don't think it would remove them....

Ableton detects transients, and slices them accordingly. So you're right, it would not be sufficient for detecting silence, but you can always cut out the silence from the beginning or end of a file, which is like 2 clicks in Ableton. I'd suggest if you want to do it the automated way Session 2 WAV, or perhaps even better use Audacity and detect silences and export them.