# Slice with removing silence?

**URL:** https://discourse.flucoma.org/t/slice-with-removing-silence/757
**Category:** Usage Questions
**Created:** [January 25, 2021, 1:50pm UTC](https://discourse.flucoma.org/t/slice-with-removing-silence/757 "2021-01-25T13:50:37Z")
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### Author: ![rodrigo.constanzo](https://discourse.flucoma.org/user_avatar/discourse.flucoma.org/rodrigo.constanzo/32/12_2.png) [@rodrigo.constanzo](https://discourse.flucoma.org/u/rodrigo.constanzo)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://discourse.flucoma.org/t/slice-with-removing-silence/757/5 "2021-01-25T15:14:29Z")

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> [@balintlaczko](#):
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> I want to extract these and discard the silence somehow. Up until now I used the dynamic split in Reaper slicing at both gate-on and gate-off points. That works, but the issue is that then I have to render thousands of very small wav files, and use them in Max, and this is asking for trouble in many ways.

Yeah, `fluid.ampgate~` is great for this. Once [slight bummer](https://discourse.flucoma.org/t/combining-fluid-ampslice-fluid-ampgate/480) with `fluid.ampgate~` vs `fluid.ampslice~` is that you no longer have the relative envelopes. So you have to rely on absolute thresholds, which are great for some stuff, but not others.

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