Splitting Clips

Splitting a clip cuts it in two at the cursor position, so that the two halves can be moved, trimmed, faded or processed independently. Nothing is deleted and no audio is rewritten — both halves still refer to the same source file, so splitting is free and can always be undone.

Splitting a clip

• Position the cursor where you want the cut. The transient navigation commands are useful for landing exactly on the start of a note or a word.

• Select the clip or clips you want to split. Hold Shift and click to select several. Below, the clip on the Piano track has been selected.

• Choose Split Clips from the Clips menu.

Every selected clip that spans the cursor position is cut at that position. Clips that do not reach the cursor are left alone, so you can safely select a whole track and split only the clips that matter.

The command is unavailable when no clip is selected.

After the split

Both halves keep the fade handles, gain and grouping of the original clip, so you can:

• drag either half in time, or to another track (see Moving and Grouping Clips);

• shorten either half from its border, or overlap them to create a crossfade (see Crossfading Clips);

• open one half in the clip editor to repair or process it on its own (see Editing Clips with Clip Editor).

If the split clips belonged to a group, both halves remain in that group and continue to move together. Ungroup them first if you want to move the halves independently.