split track into clips and label from soft to loud?

Audacity 3 Help Forum macOS
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I have a bunch of timpani hits that I need to put into volume order. I was hoping there was a way to automatically split each hit into its own clip, and then label them from loud to soft, perhaps by their peak db level, or rms? There are a lot, so doing manually would be really time consuming.

Can’t find a way to do it in any DAW and was wondering if anyone knew of a way that Audacity could do it?

Thanks!!!

DGB

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Export Multiple, based on labels , (silence finder may be helpful).
You’ll have to manually create the labels: give each a name which begins with the peak volume, e.g. “-10.5dB timpani”.
Then the sorting process of the exported tracks is automatic in the folder, (e.g. alphabetical-order).
Then drag’n’drop all of the sorted files (at once) from the folder into an Audacity window, then align the tracks end to end.

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You could write a Nyquist Macro to measure the peak levels and name / label them according to the measured peak level. However, it’s probably more work to write the macro than it is to sort or label the sounds manually.

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No, I think the macro might be the way to go because I have tons, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hits, so doing it manually sounds terrible.

Thanks I’ll look into how to write one!

DGB

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Trying to figure out how to do it with a macro.

Using the show-amplitude.ny script I’m able to get the peak… but I can’t figure out how to program it so it copies the number that outputs to the window into the filename and save the new file…

It really would be a huge timesaver as I have thousands of very small file.

Thanks!