# Why does the cut tool, erase the wave?

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**Category:** WaveLab\
**Tags:** wavelab-8\
**Created:** [August 27, 2013, 11:58pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/why-does-the-cut-tool-erase-the-wave/631862 "2013-08-27T23:58:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Revelation](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/revelation/32/225849_2.png) [@Revelation](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/Revelation)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 11:58pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/why-does-the-cut-tool-erase-the-wave/631862/1 "2013-08-27T23:58:27Z")

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There is a section of a song I want to adjust. So I have the purple line where I want it cut. I go to Edit and Cut and the wave form disappears. (This does not happen in Cubase)

What I wanted to do is get a section of a song, and create a new song thus splitting the song into 2 songs. So by cutting where the new songs starts, and creating a new marker, is the goal I wanted to do.

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**Author:** ![PG1](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/pg1/32/51201_2.png) [@PG1](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/PG1)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2013, 5:30am UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/why-does-the-cut-tool-erase-the-wave/631862/2 "2013-08-28T05:30:01Z")

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Are you in the montage or audio editor?

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**Author:** ![theoldman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@theoldman](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/theoldman)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 2:14am UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/why-does-the-cut-tool-erase-the-wave/631862/3 "2013-09-05T02:14:32Z")

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how do you split in the audio editor ❓

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**Author:** ![pwhodges](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/pwhodges/32/92647_2.png) [@pwhodges](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/pwhodges)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 7:42am UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/why-does-the-cut-tool-erase-the-wave/631862/4 "2013-09-05T07:42:11Z")

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Well, obviously you can’t because the Wave editor is for editing a single wave, and splitting would produce two…

On occasion I do it by setting a marker at the split point, deleting all to one side of it and storing the result, then reverting the edit, deleting the other side and saving that result.

Paul

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**Author:** ![Arjan\_P](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/arjan_p/32/29_2.png) [@Arjan\_P](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/Arjan_P)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2013, 11:12am UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/why-does-the-cut-tool-erase-the-wave/631862/5 "2013-09-05T11:12:33Z")

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What I use sometimes from the wave editor, is making a selection, and dragging this away to form a new wave file. Not exactly splitting either, but for real non-destructive splitting we have the montage.