Reference Guide

786 Editing audio
Basic audio editing
To split clips with the Split tool
1. If necessary, zoom-in in the Track view and use the Scrub tool (hold down J) to determine where
you want to make a split.
2. If you want the split to be made on a note or measure boundary, a marker, specify the desired
snap settings in the Control Bar’s Snap module.
3. Select the Split tool in the Control Bar.
4. Click once to make a single split, or to make two splits, click where you want the first split, drag
within a clip and release to make a second split.
To split clips with the Split command
1. Select the clip you want to split.
2. Right-click the selected clip and select Split from the menu.
The Split Clips dialog box appears.
3. In the Split Clips dialog box, select from the following options.
SONAR splits the audio clip according to your specifications. Each new clip has the same name as
the original clip.
Option Description
Split At Time Specify the time at which you want to split the clip and the time format.
Split Repeatedly Specify the first measure at which you want to split the clip in the Starting
At Measure field and the intervals at which you want to split the clip in the
And Again Every field.
Split At Each Marker Creates a split in the clip at every marker.
Split When Silent For At Least Creates a split after each period of silence which exceeds the number of
measures specified.
Table 152.
Note: A shortcut to split a selected clip is to move the Now time to where you want to split it, and
press S on your computer keyboard.