The Strip Threshold control determines how quiet a piece of audio has to be before Strip Silence will consider it to be 'silence'. The Strip Silence window has four slider controls on it. Other uses for Strip Silence include cutting up vocals or dialogue. Simply put, Strip Silence enables you to cut out all the gaps in an audio region, and do it non-destructively too! It is great, for example, for carving up drum tracks, allowing you to set them up onto the grid so that when you change the tempo in Ticks mode, all the hits stay in their correct places. I'll kick off this month's Pro Tools workshop by looking at Strip Silence, a sometimes overlooked feature that can be used to tidy up all sorts of material in a semi-automated fashion. The Strip Silence window in Pro Tools allows you to automate complex edits that would take hours to do by hand. Here, the default settings divide my vocal region into three.
Using the Strip Silence feature in Pro Tools to 'clean up' a vocal take.
