Adobe Audition...anyone?

[Unbound]

Any die hard users? Just wondering because I just got it in the Adobe box. It actually looks really nice, and since it's for PC, and I'm forced to use one at the studio I work at, I was thinking of giving it a try.

Thoughts on this software?

Thanks,
Aaron
Prelude Studios

[Jules]

Whats it for?

[FLechdrop]

There's a nice forum on this piece of software here.

[Unbound]

I'm looking to do some sound for video with this mainly. I also want to be able to mix "smarter" in surround formats, one big problem: I work in a Pro Tools studio. Compatibility looks to be almost nonexistent...almost...I mean...they both create .wav files...

Aaron

[cdefencer333]

adobe soundbooth might b a good program to look into

[dfarness]

I use it a lot for radio commercials and sound for TV commercials but wouldn't recommend it for recording music.

[bcgood]

Originally Posted by Unbound

Any die hard users? Just wondering because I just got it in the Adobe box. It actually looks really nice, and since it's for PC, and I'm forced to use one at the studio I work at, I was thinking of giving it a try.

Thoughts on this software?

Thanks,
Aaron
Prelude Studios

I love Adobe Audition. It is extremely powerful and underrated. I use it for tracking and mastering...

[PettyCash]

If im not mistaken, isnt Adobe Audition just a rehash of Cool Edit Pro?

If it is, I'd only use it for editing, slicing, whatever... It would see the same type of use that Cool Edit Pro did a couple years back.

Great tool, but I wouldnt use it for actual audio recording either.

[Stiff]

Well, to be fair... It has had it's share of updates since Cool Edit.

[Daniel Antix]

We use Adobe at work, I produce radio commercials and promos for a living... it's great for recording cold voice editing the audio whacking a music bed and maybe some sfx etc i'd hate to use it for mixing music though.

[Daniel Antix]

Originally Posted by dfarness

I use it a lot for radio commercials and sound for TV commercials but wouldn't recommend it for recording music.

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I use cubase for music, audition is much quicker and easier for commercials.

i use adobe audition 1.5 btw, ver 2 is very processor heavy.

[sleepwalker]

Audition is my preferred 2 track editor. It's got your standard nuts and bolts editing, but it's also got some pretty advanced editing modes where the Y axis isn't Amplitude. They've got a frequency editor, and a Phase and Pan editor. These 3 views make it a great mastering tool. I dare you to find a more innovative editing solution. It's becoming the "Photoshop" of audio. Marquee and lasso selections can be really useful in restoration or really detailed editing.

The multitrack is nice and easy to use, but I only use it for smaller, simple sessions. If I need good hardware controller support or a lot of automation, I use Cubase instead.

1.5 is a little sleeker and more "cool edit pro" than 2.0, but I prefer 2.0 by a longshot. I couldn't wait to get rid of 1.5's interface.

[Franco]

The restoration tools and other "scientific" tools you can use to edit audio are highly slept-on. I use it from your basic stereo track editor to generating test tones and batch-converting files to all sorts of formats.

I've been using it since Cool Edit Pro was around; Audition 2 is a similar, yet more beefed-up beast.

[T9c]

Is it ASIO capable yet? Last I heard (from Lynx) is wasn't. I use an older version for editing & mastering. Works for me!

[mastertone]

Excellent Clickpop remover! saved my as on an album a week ago, Dont like GUi, but hey... what u gonna do...

[Franco]

Originally Posted by T9c

Is it ASIO capable yet? Last I heard (from Lynx) is wasn't. I use an older version for editing & mastering. Works for me!

As of version 2, yep, it's ASIO compatible.

[ascottk]

I've been a big fan of this software since I bought Cool Edit 2000 when it was still with Syntrillium.

With Audition 2 there's been some major improvements aside from the crappy interface (slow redraws, space hooging "tabs", buttons that change position -- not to mention you can't move the reorder buttons -- when you change from editing to multitrack/cd & vise versa) and some instability. Sometimes the audition.exe process takes a long time, or never quits, when you exit audition.

All of the spectral analysis tools (especially the logarithmic view option), the mixer view in a multitrack session, the nice surround encoder, ASIO, spectral editing (excellent with removing coughs, pops, clicks, and other small annoying bits), VST/DirectX effects support (although the effects that use the native UI freezes/crashes audition), and several other things.

It's been running non-stop all of this summer & I couldn't be happier. Several projects I've been working on could not have been possible without Audition. My sister's been sending me a lot of audio (from videos and cassettes) that needs to be cleaned up, I did a surround sound electroacoustic piece, I master a lot of audio, I mix a lot of my instrumental rock tracks (I reluctantly mixed some indie rock for someone online . . . I might get an external controller sometime . . . maybe an M-Audio ProjectMix I/O), and Audition's been up on my PC's computer screen for several hours a day.

I also have ProTools M-Powered that's hasn't been used that much.