M-AUDIO Pro Tools Recording Studio - Manual (Page 751)

Chapter 35: Arranging Regions 733
Strip Threshold Sets the amplitude threshold
(from –48 dB to 0 dB) for Strip Silence. Audio
falling below this threshold is considered silence
and removed. Audio above the threshold is re-
tained and defined as new regions.
Minimum Strip Duration Sets the minimum dura-
tion (from 0 to 10,000 ms) that the material be-
low the threshold must last to be considered si-
lence. Use this control to avoid countless small
regions that may occur within a selection.
Region Start Pad Specifies a time value to be
added to the beginning of each new region cre-
ated with Strip Silence. This is useful for preserv-
ing musical material that falls below the thresh-
old, such as the breath before a vocal phrase, or
the finger slide before a guitar chord.
Region End Pad Specifies a time value to be ap-
pended to the end of each new region created
with Strip Silence, thereby preserving the nu-
ances in the decay of the material.
Strip Clears the detected silence, but leaves the
regions containing audio on the track.
Extract Clears the audio and leaves the silent
portions of the track (in other words, an “in-
verse” strip silence feature that is ideal for gener-
ating room tone or ambience to use elsewhere).
Rename Opens the Rename Selected Regions di-
alog (see “Auto-Naming for Strip Silence” on
page 733).
Separate Separates regions based on the bound-
aries detected by Strip Silence.
Auto-Naming for Strip Silence
The Rename button in the Strip Silence window
opens the Rename Selected Regions dialog,
which determines how regions are named when
stripping silence command. The dialog remem-
bers your previous settings, which can be
cleared by clicking the Clear button.
Name Specifies the base name for regions cre-
ated with Strip Silence.
Number Specifies the number at which sequen-
tial auto-numbering starts.
Zeros Specifies the number of zeroes that occur
before the appended auto numbers.
Suffix Specifies text appended to the end of the
name, after the auto numbering.
For example, if you set these naming options to:
• Name = SFX
• Auto Number Start = 23
• Leading Zeros = 1
• Suffix = .Reel1
The names generated for regions created by Strip
Silence would be:
• SFX023.Reel1
• SFX024.Reel1
• SFX025.Reel1
• SFX026.Reel1
• SFX027.Reel1
Rename Selected Regions dialog