How to splice together separate 5.1 .wav audio files??

[JetrellFo69]

Okay,

Now that I have my DTS audio reels decoded, each reel is a 5.1 .wav file so I have either 6 or 7 files depending on the movie. My question is this.....

HOW do I splice these 6 or 7 files together in reel order so that I can edit out the silence and Time code beeps and then sync the 1 large 5.1 .wav to corresponding video?

Since it's DTS I also need to attenuate the rear channels by 3dB while leaving the fronts alone and then extract an LFE from the rears using an 80Hz cross over filter.

What software will do this and is there a tutorial that can help me do this properly?

I am using Windows XP Pro and I have Adobe Audition, Adobe Premiere, Audacity, Sony Vegas Pro and a few other programs at my disposal for this project.

Thanks in advance for the assistance.

[Island_Dweller]

If you have Sound Forge Pro, you can give it a try. I know only the basics but it supports multichannel audio and it has built-in functions to remove silence.

[hello_hello]

I'm pretty sure Audacity will. If you load the wave files into a new instance of Audacity each time (so they're all open at once) you should be able to copy the wave file from one window and paste it into another. If you paste it at the end of an existing wave file that should effectively join them. I'd imagine most audio editors wouod let you copy and paste the same way.

Or..... you could convert the wave files to a single new wave file. Converting from wave to wave shouldn't have an adverse effect on quality as long as the bitdepth is the same. Foobar2000's converter can join files while converting. You'd load them into a foobar2000 playlist, highlight them all and right click to select the converter setup. Choose wave as the output and under "Destination", the option to merge all tracks into one output file. foobar2000 should happily play/convert multi-channel wave files.

[JetrellFo69]

Thanks for dropping some suggestions. I have just been trying to learn the basics as I have some audio I will need to work with on my own for some future projects and the best way to do that is to ask questions.

Cheers