Wavesplit
In a sound-first workflow, it's convenient to be able to take a recording of various single hits, and automatically split them up into individual samples, one per hit. You can then concentrate on the less tedious, more human aspect of the process: deciding which samples to keep and which to discard.
Sox is great for this sort of thing. Here's a handy script I wrote to use it to split up one .flac or .wav file into multiple ones, wavesplit.sh:
#!/bin/sh
sox $1 ${1%.*}-.${1##*.} silence 1 0.125 1% 1 0.125 1% : newfile : restart
You copy it to your ~/bin directory, then use it like this:
$ ls recording.wav $ wavesplit.sh recording.wav $ ls recording.wav recording-001.wav recording-002.wav recording-003.wav
Scripts: Wavesplit