How to cut music for dance on iPhone

How to cut music for dance on iPhone

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The Apple iPhone is a device with a remarkable simplicity, but sometimes it is this attempt to excel at user-friendliness that might alienate more advanced users. Recently, we were faced with a task that some more advanced users might run into: how to trim and edit a song on an iOS device.

After all, sometimes you just need a couple of seconds of your favorite song to set as a ringtone or send to a friend. So how do you do it?

How to cut music on iPhone?

For every job, you need the proper tools. In this case, the proper app. After going through a long list of apps ranging from terrible to good, but expensive, we have settled on one completely ad-free and excellent solution: the Hokusai Audio Editor for iPhone and iPad.

A simple, well-designed and free app

This is a stellar single-purpose app that presents you with a large and clearly legible timeline view of your track. Pinch to zoom in and out, and get right to that moment. Tap on the timeline and you can easily drag and drop the two ends of a selector to pick the right length of what you want to trim. Add a fade in and fade out effects. Normalize the audio and so on. All of this completely free, no annoying ads (yes, we said this, but we want to re-iterate).

How do you save your edits? Also, fairly simple: you click on the settings button on the top right and select the 'Share Audio' option. From there on, you can send your creation to nearby devices via AirDrop, send via Apple Message, Mail, Import to iMovie or other compatible apps, and even send in various instant messengers. You can also easily save the file to iCloud Drive.

And that's it: a simple and excellent single-purpose tool with a refined interface and stable performance to get things done. You can try it out at the link right below.

Download Hokusai Audio Editor for iPhone and iPad

Slip an audio track to change the range of playable media. When you slip an audio track, its In and Out points remain unchanged in the Timeline, but the playable portion of the audio file changes.

In Motion, do one of the following:

  • In the Audio Timeline, press and hold the Option key, then drag left or right to slip the portion of the audio file.

    As you drag, the pointer becomes a slip pointer, a dimmed bar representing the full range of the audio clip appears over the green bar, and a tooltip appears, showing the In and Out points of the audio clip.

    How to cut music for dance on iPhone
  • In the Audio list, select a track, then press and hold the Option key and drag left or right over the green bar in the mini-Timeline.

    As you drag, the pointer becomes a slip pointer, a dimmed bar representing the full range of the audio clip appears over the green bar, and a tooltip appears, showing the In and Out points of the audio clip.

    How to cut music for dance on iPhone

Note: You can only slip media that has had its In or Out points trimmed, leaving unused audio available on either side or both sides of the green bar.

Have you ever wanted to know how you can slice or cut a song, voice recording, or sound track on iPhone? You need an audio editor app for that. Hokusai is a free audio editor app that can do the job in an easier way. In this article, we will show you how to trim music and audio files on iPhone using this free audio editor. (free to download and use with basic features, optionally upgrade to pro version for more advanced features through in-app purchase.)

Adding audio & music to the editor on iPhone

There are different ways you can add the sound track, audio file or music songs to the editor app. If it was saved on your computer hard drive, you can sync them to iPhone via iTunes or a third-party iOS data transfer tool. You can also upload the audio or music to a cloud service, like iCloud, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, then download the music or audio from a cloud service to the audio editor app on your iPhone.

Run the audio editor app on iPhone. Tap the Add(+icon) at the top right corner to create a new project.

How to cut music for dance on iPhone

Then tap on a music track to add it from your Music Library or add audio files from a cloud service.

How to cut music for dance on iPhone

Once the audio or music files being imported into the editor app. Press and hold on the sound wave, then drag left or right to select the audio part you like to keep. Release your finger, you will see a pop-up toolbar as shown below.

How to cut music for dance on iPhone

You can touch the Play button at the top right corner to play the selected section of the audio or music. Drag the front and/or end point to adjust your selection. Tap the selection to reveal the above toolbar and choose Trim to save only the selection and trim away the rest.

Cut audio on iPhone

If you choose Cut instead of Trim, the selection will be cut off while the not selected portion will remain.

Export audio/Music

Touch the spanner icon at the top right section, choose Share Audio from the drop-down menu, then export the trimmed audio, sound or music to the Files app on iPhone, a cloud service or other compatible apps on your device.

How to cut music for dance on iPhone

Update Aug 2020: this article was originally published in Mar 2018 and has since been updated. in this update, the audio editor app was upgraded to the most recent version 2.5.6, new screenshots were added to the above post to replace those old ones.

How do you cut dance music on iPhone?

In the Audio list, select a track, place the pointer over the beginning or end of the green bar in the mini-Timeline until the trim pointer appears, then drag left or right.

How do I edit songs on my iPhone?

Your iPhone comes with a full-featured music creation app called GarageBand. In addition to using GarageBand to write music, you can also use it to perform basic editing tasks on existing audio files, including trimming off unwanted ends and adding simple effects.

How do you shorten music?

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