Adobe Audition 3

[diatonic]

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[indigo_dave]

Please do. I've been looking for someone to offer some opions on the new Audition 3.0.

[diatonic]

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[sleepwalker]

I'm a CEP/Audition freak for the stereo editing. I use the MT a little, but prefer Ableton or Logic because I'm also a midi freak.

The spot healing brush is awesome, though I don't do too much restoration. I love the idea.

Here are the two features I'm thrilled about:

1. Visual edits on a pan range. Want to drop the volume of the guitar solo that's positioned at 45 degrees. Easy, select it, and edit it. Very very cool. You can also apply effects to a pan range. Remixers and Mastering engineers will love this.

2. Export audio as BMP for editing in Photoshop. This is more than listening to pictures. Subtle photoshop filters actually sound really cool.

I'm a visual guy, so I love Adobe's visual audio editing. I understand that I don't listen with my eyes, but what can I say. It makes sense to me.

Originally Posted by diatonic

On first glance, a lot of the effort seems to be in fleshing out the DAW aspects. VSTI, MIDI, new plugins. I use it to work on the stereo mixdown, generally with 3rd party plugins. So, AA3 seems fine given that I already really liked AA2. There are new plugins for time stretching (based on izotope technology) convolution, mastering strip, distortion, but I already have alternatives for those. The restoration seems a bit better with an adaptive algorithm that may speed things up. Apparently it is more savvy with multi-core, but I wonder if I will notice that if I have single chain of plugins on a mastering track.

So far my favorite features are in some of the new view capabilities and the spot healing brush.

Hart Shafer's blog had a good introduction, and there is a new features summary.

[diatonic]

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[BMT]

Does it offer any OMF surpport. Mainly I want to know if it'll export as an OMF so I can get the session into Pro Tools. I justed called Adobe and they didn't know.

[diatonic]

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[bigmeandoggy]

I downloaded the Audition 3 trial version and I don't see any menu or file item to export OMF or AAF. It does, however, export XML. Well, all that is a real bummer for me because I record podcasts in Logic Pro 8 and the client's editor uses Vista, is crazy about Audition and says radio stations use Audition. Is there anything radio-specific about Audition? With no OMF/AAF/XML importing and only XML exporting, which doesn't help me much, Audition lives in a world of its own. Anyway, I'm trying to get my Macbook to record to Audition using VmWare Fusion and Windows XP SP2. I'm having soundcard connectivity issues, though, and Adobe says using hosting software on an Intel Mac isn't a solution. I guess they want you to buy a PC.

[Charlie_M]

Has anyone tried this and liked it better than PTLE or found that it works with an 002? I like PTLE in most respects but getting pretty tired of the latency. It just makes certain things a chore that shouldn't be so in my opinion.

Not sure if Audition 3 has automatic delay compensation but I would like to try and find something that does offer that feature.

Charlie