ISSUE - Detect Silence tool sometimes removes audio parts

Cubase
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Hi there,

I’ve found a bug with the Detect Silence tool. It had been nagging me for a while that some audio parts would be randomly removed, but I’ve found a way to repeat the issue.

Explanation:
When using Detect Silence (Shift+D) on audio, and where the detection covers the whole selection (i.e. it hasn’t detected anything below the set threshold), the process will delete the audio part entirely.

How to recreate:

  1. Find some audio that has quiet parts in it.
  2. Use the Detect Silence tool and set the threshold so it’ll strip silence but leave the audio segments.
  3. Click apply. The process will work as intended.
  4. Repeat the Detect Silence process using the exact same settings over the same audio.
  5. The audio part will be removed completely, even though no silence was detected on the second processing attempt. It should have kept the audio but it removed it instead.

Cheers, Jim.

Cubase Pro 14.0.10 // Windows 11 Pro 24H2

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I don’t get it. What do you mean by “repeat the process”? :grimacing:
Repeat the process over what, over another audio with quiet parts?
(Hi! :sunglasses:)

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Repeat the same Detect Silence process. If no silence is detected, it deletes the audio part entirely rather than ignoring it.

4

Repeat over what.

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Repeat it over the audio that remains, that now no longer has any audio below the detect threshold because it’s set to exactly the same level as before, as no settings have been changed.

Basically, Detect Silence deletes audio when it shouldn’t do when no audio below the threshold has been detected.