I was wondering if anyone would have advice on how to trim the silences around a recorded sample once the sample is recorded into a patch.
Also, as an alternative, would you have any suggestions on how to set up a adc with tabwrite so that it only records when a certain threshold has been achieved, like a traditional sampler?

you could use [env~] to measure the volume and [moses] to set threshold... just a suggestion.

to your first question: just an idea, you could read out the table with a combo of [kalshnikov] (with [arraysize] to set the number of bangs] and a [tabread], filter the numbers under a certain threshhold with [moses] and make a list of the others with

. with [list-length] you get the size, to resize the array and overwrite the data in it with the new list.