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A Great Audio Application Gets Even Better!

Adobe Audition 2.0 represents a major upgrade to the product. Going back to its roots in Cool Edit Pro, Adobe has enhanced and improved nearly every aspect of the program. Considered by many to be the best audio editing application around, Adobe has done much to keep Audition well ahead of the competition. Some of the new features include:

• Low-latency mixing with unlimited tracks
• ASIO support
• Recordable parameter automation
• Hardware controller automation
• Audio mixing sends and inserts
• Real-time input monitoring
• Quick Punch
• Plug-in delay compensation
• Effects chain on all channels, buses, and master
• Improved recording performance
• Unlimited number of tracks in Multitrack View
• Up to 80 live inputs
• Broader video format support
• Intuitive user interface
• Custom workspaces
• Ready-to-use music beds
• Thousands of uncompressed 32-bit music loops
• Improved video sync
• Adobe Bridge
• XMP metadata support
• Audible scrubbing
• Analog-modeled Multiband Compressor
• Mastering Rack in Edit View
• Spectral Frequency Display tools
• Lasso tool in Spectral Frequency Display
• Spectral Pan and Phase displays
• Spectral color bar and resolution settings
• Logarithmic Spectral Frequency Display
• Ability to save CD layouts
• Broadcast Wave support
• Improved performance for editing
• Phase Analysis Histogram View
• Ogg Vorbis format support

An impressive list of new features. Audition has moved closer to the look and feel of the other members of the Production Suite making it more intuitive when working in multiple areas of the suite. Perhaps the most welcome change is the new user interface. Gone is the confusion of multiple overlapping palettes and windows that plagued previous versions. The new interface allows multiple palettes and windows to be “snapped” together into a manageable workspace. In fact, once you arrange your workspace to fit your workflow you can save it. Multiple workspaces can be saved to fit different workflows. Multi-Track View Audition now handles plugins much better than before. Organizing and finding files is a breeze with its integration to Adobe Bridge. Natively handling of ASIO drivers brings a significant performance boost and allows for real-time, low-latency editing. There are many applications that will allow you to edit audio, mix audio, or burn CDs. Audition, however, is one of a very few that handles all of this with ease. Audition can be a simple editing application when that is all you need and it can be a very powerful multitrack mixing environment if your project calls for that. Versatility sets Audition apart from the rest. Unlike other computer based audio applications Audition does not try to reinvent the workflow and terminology of the audio professional. Its roots are well grounded in the industry and Audition uses terms and methodologies familiar to the audio tech used to working in the studio. For example, Audition now includes a mastering rack. This presents an elegant interface for adding effects to tracks or the Master Bus that has a counterpart in the studio. Similar to adding effects processors to a physical rack, Audition allows you to add effects and see what is present in the rack. In nearly every area of Audition you can save presets. In addition to the various presets that come with Audition, this give you maximum creative control. Once you find, for example, a combination of effects and have tweaked them to your liking you can save a rack preset. The next time you want that combination just pull up that preset and all of the effects and settings will populate the rack. Very Nice! The mixer provides you the flexibility to create additional buses. Effects can be associated with each bus. Multiple sends are also available for each track. By combining sends and buses you have virtually limitless editing capability. Add to that the fact that all of these edits in the mixer are non-destructive. Non-destructive edits give you maximum flexibility and peace of mind. Knowing that you are not changing your source files allows you to experiment and play. Want to do some permanent edits to your source files? No problem! Audition’s Edit view will let you work on your original source files and make edits, apply effects, and save these. New and enhanced capabilities to edit the sound tracks in video files and export them without impacting the video tracks further expand this application’s flexibility. Adobe has continued to integrate its applications into the various flavors of the suite without sacrificing any functionality. Whether you are looking for a standalone audio application or a powerful segment of a complete suite workflow, Adobe Audition 2.0 is the program for you.