Sorry for the delay - was out of town.
I should have been more clear. I'm not using the gate itself. The gate settings are used to tell the Remove Silence function what to do. Recall that there are spaces of about 2 seconds between audio segments on Track 1 and it gets Mixed Down to Track 2. I set the Gate Threshold on Track 2 to one step above -inf, I think it's -79.75dB, and it distinguishes perfectly between the noise floor of my recording chain and the parts of Track 2 that have no regions above them in the "source" track - Track 1. But the Gate button is NOT pressed.
Then, from the Help File:
Remove Silence From Track (Or Marked Area) - Automatic
This option will strip silent sections of audio from solid tracks of data, immediately splitting and removing the silent regions. This option also respond to selected tracks and will perform the operation on all selected tracks at once. You may also mark an area on the MultiTrack to limit the range of the operation. These options use default settings for the Attack, Release and Threshold settings applied to the algorithm. These may be set and saved with the preferences. If you activate the Gate on any track, you may override the settings for that track by adjusting the Gate settings.
The Attack uses a positive value to set the length of the silence (.250) included at the head of each new region being created. The Release sets the length of the silence (1.0) included at the end of each new region. And the Threshold sets the level defined as "silence" (anything below -79.75dB.)
Then I right click in the Track 2 label area and choose Remove Silence Automatic.
My default Preferences file in SS has all of this set up before I even begin recording.
When using BFG or SFE, do you have to mark the B and E of every intended output file?
Using my method (which, again, was suggested by another SS user, but I can't find the thread or I'd give credit), I only have to mark the entire track from .5 second before the audio begins on Track 1 to 1.5 seconds after the last audio ends before mixing to Track 2. This makes the resulting region on Track 2 long enough to allow Remove Silence to include the 0.25 second head on the first region and the 1 second tail on the last region.
I have downloaded SFE and will give it a try.
Thanks.
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