Description
With Adobe Audition you can record, mix, edit, and master digital audio files with powerful tools that bring flexibility and control to your Desktop Studio. Easily Create music, produce radio spots, and restore imperfect recordings. Bring audio and video together using smart integration with Adobe video applications. Get professional results in real time with Adobe Audition 2.0 software.
Key Features:
Low-latency mixing with unlimited tracks
Enjoy rapid response as you record and mix with a new, powerful low-latency mixing engine.
ASIO support
Work with high-performance, ASIO-driven audio devices, which operate with very low latency and enhance performance by enabling features such as live input monitoring.
Audible scrubbing
Quickly find the audio you want to edit using two modes of audible scrubbing. Tape-style scrubbing enables you to find hard-to-locate edit points, and shuttle-style scrubbing allows you scan through your audio rapidly.
Analog-modeled Multiband Compressor
Control dynamics, adjust loudness, and master your mixes with multiband precision. Give bass and drums punch while allowing your vocals to push through the entire mix.
Recordable parameter automation with external hardware support
MOVE volume, pan, and effects controls as you listen, and record changes to your mix in real time. Use external hardware controllers to make changes, which appear as editable envelopes in the timeline.
New tools for mastering
Use the innovative Spectral Pan and Phase display modes to analyze your audio, the Mastering Rack in Edit View to apply multiple effects simultaneously, and improved phase and Frequency analysis tools.
Live mixing
In spite of the sometimes opaque jargon, as with other Production Studio programs, Audition's keyframe control is good. This is illustrated well when using Audition 2.0's Mixer panel. The mixer, reached quickly via a tab above the multitrack, is one of the highlights of Audition 2.0 with excellent control and easy access to the Effects Rack. Here you can make low-latency, live mixes if your card has ASIO (Audio Stream Input/Output) support, the default audio driver used in Audition 2.0. Slower PC cards without ASIO support (mine) still suffer latency. These panels, and the similarly looking Mastering Panel, again reflect some excellent design thinking behind this upgrade, marrying control with ease-of-use.
Making real time edits to your tracks in Mixer is a matter of arming tracks for record and then changing settings dynamically using Audition's virtual (or an attached hardware) mixing desk. Once you've completed a live mix, you can make further adjustments back in multitrack view if you need to finesse the edits. Clicking on the little triangle in the bottom left corner of a track opens up the "track automation lanes" like a trap door. You can add multiple track automation lanes for precise keyframe control for volume, pan and effects over the course of the track, and if you've just completed a live edit you'll see Audition has already created edit points based on your live edit. The only quibble here is that there is no bezier or spline control for smoother transitions between edit points.
Multiband Compressor
As throughout Production Studio, the filters and effects come with a variety of presets to get you going, and provide a good starting point for creating your own custom presets. Take the new Multiband Compressor from iZotope: it's great for either minor adjustments in the mastering process or mashing your audio up like a club DJ. You can choose a suitable preset, perhaps one that focuses on the vocal or snare drum range, or one that beefs up a voice-over for internet delivery, or you might be looking to generate a thin "Indie Lofi" quality from your original audio. You can start with the preset, and adapt it as you see fit. It's worth noting that Audition accepts many third party DirectX and VST plugins.
Audition comes with piles of loops - from funky drum beats to rockabilly tremolo guitar, hammond organ to jaw harp. You can create some impressive compositions, literally in minutes, when you start mixing up these tiny little clips in the multitrack view. It gets better when you start bringing in your own recordings via microphones, decks, players, files, and MIDI devices (using a MIDI application). Audition 2.0' offers good flexibility in how you route audio to buses, sends and the master track. For example, by grouping a set of tracks, say all your drum beats, you can send them to the same bus where you apply effects collectively thereby saving your system extra work. Audition 2.0 supports unlimited tracks, with up to 16 sends per track, and supports output to multiple buses. If you need it, there is support for 96 live inputs and outputs.
You can now also import and export the Ogg Vorbis audio format and embed BWF timestamps for use in broadcast applications.
Edit View
In Audition's Edit view (you double click on a file in your multitrack panel to bring it up), you can add effects and clean up clips, like pops and clicks in your audio. While effects and edits made in multitrack view don't make any permanent change to your original file, changes made in edit view are "destructive" - you permanently change your original file.
In the "spectral view", which displays your clip as a colourful visual spectrum of sound, you can do some impressive audio cleaning with a new lasso tool. You select an element by drawing around it and then cut and paste your audio. It's a useful addition to the marquee tool, which you use for effecting square or rectangular shaped areas of your clip.
Third view: burning CDs
You might be a making CD, perhaps a soundtrack compilation. This is where you move to Audition's third, CD view, which again shares the program's user-friendly design. It is as easy as dragging and dropping your clips into place and clicking "write CD" to create a Red Book industry standard disc including features like pausing between tracks and adding an ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) id. In CD view, you can rip from existing CDs or add copy protect to your output content. New features in Audition 2.0 also allow you to store CD track lists which you can draw on and modify for later copies, and you can now burn up to 99 copies at once.
Integration with Adobe Production Studio
Adobe have enhanced the video support in Audition: you can import/export in AVI, MPEG, QuickTime and WMV formats and you can launch audio from directly in Premiere Pro and After Effects to edit in Audition even if you didn't create the original in Audition. Thanks to Adobe's Dynamic Link feature any updates to audio files created in Audition are automatically reflected back in the other programs.
Audition carries a single dedicated video track and a preview monitor so that you can do an audio mix in synch with your footage as it plays. The footage on the video track shows up as a thumbnail, to help navigate to a relevant spot. Very handy.
If you plan on distributing your work, Adobe Illustrator 2.0, part of the Studio package, comes with an impressive selection of templates for CD labels, CD sleeves and publicity material.
Conclusion
Audition 2.0 is a great move forward on the previous version, particularly in its new look and feel. It is more than up to the task for most film and video projects and greater integration with Premiere Pro 2.0 and After Effects 7.0 can only make life easier.
System Requirements:
Processor: Intel Pentium III or 4 (Pentium 4 required for video)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
RAM: 512MB (1GB recommended)
Hard Disk: 700MB of available hard disk space (5.5GB recommended for installing optional audio clips)
Display: 1,024x768 (1,280x1,024 recommended)
Sound Card: DirectSound or ASIO drivers (multitrack ASIO sound card recommended)
Key Features:
Low-latency mixing with unlimited tracks
Enjoy rapid response as you record and mix with a new, powerful low-latency mixing engine.
ASIO support
Work with high-performance, ASIO-driven audio devices, which operate with very low latency and enhance performance by enabling features such as live input monitoring.
Audible scrubbing
Quickly find the audio you want to edit using two modes of audible scrubbing. Tape-style scrubbing enables you to find hard-to-locate edit points, and shuttle-style scrubbing allows you scan through your audio rapidly.
Analog-modeled Multiband Compressor
Control dynamics, adjust loudness, and master your mixes with multiband precision. Give bass and drums punch while allowing your vocals to push through the entire mix.
Recordable parameter automation with external hardware support
MOVE volume, pan, and effects controls as you listen, and record changes to your mix in real time. Use external hardware controllers to make changes, which appear as editable envelopes in the timeline.
New tools for mastering
Use the innovative Spectral Pan and Phase display modes to analyze your audio, the Mastering Rack in Edit View to apply multiple effects simultaneously, and improved phase and Frequency analysis tools.
Live mixing
In spite of the sometimes opaque jargon, as with other Production Studio programs, Audition's keyframe control is good. This is illustrated well when using Audition 2.0's Mixer panel. The mixer, reached quickly via a tab above the multitrack, is one of the highlights of Audition 2.0 with excellent control and easy access to the Effects Rack. Here you can make low-latency, live mixes if your card has ASIO (Audio Stream Input/Output) support, the default audio driver used in Audition 2.0. Slower PC cards without ASIO support (mine) still suffer latency. These panels, and the similarly looking Mastering Panel, again reflect some excellent design thinking behind this upgrade, marrying control with ease-of-use.
Making real time edits to your tracks in Mixer is a matter of arming tracks for record and then changing settings dynamically using Audition's virtual (or an attached hardware) mixing desk. Once you've completed a live mix, you can make further adjustments back in multitrack view if you need to finesse the edits. Clicking on the little triangle in the bottom left corner of a track opens up the "track automation lanes" like a trap door. You can add multiple track automation lanes for precise keyframe control for volume, pan and effects over the course of the track, and if you've just completed a live edit you'll see Audition has already created edit points based on your live edit. The only quibble here is that there is no bezier or spline control for smoother transitions between edit points.
Multiband Compressor
As throughout Production Studio, the filters and effects come with a variety of presets to get you going, and provide a good starting point for creating your own custom presets. Take the new Multiband Compressor from iZotope: it's great for either minor adjustments in the mastering process or mashing your audio up like a club DJ. You can choose a suitable preset, perhaps one that focuses on the vocal or snare drum range, or one that beefs up a voice-over for internet delivery, or you might be looking to generate a thin "Indie Lofi" quality from your original audio. You can start with the preset, and adapt it as you see fit. It's worth noting that Audition accepts many third party DirectX and VST plugins.
Audition comes with piles of loops - from funky drum beats to rockabilly tremolo guitar, hammond organ to jaw harp. You can create some impressive compositions, literally in minutes, when you start mixing up these tiny little clips in the multitrack view. It gets better when you start bringing in your own recordings via microphones, decks, players, files, and MIDI devices (using a MIDI application). Audition 2.0' offers good flexibility in how you route audio to buses, sends and the master track. For example, by grouping a set of tracks, say all your drum beats, you can send them to the same bus where you apply effects collectively thereby saving your system extra work. Audition 2.0 supports unlimited tracks, with up to 16 sends per track, and supports output to multiple buses. If you need it, there is support for 96 live inputs and outputs.
You can now also import and export the Ogg Vorbis audio format and embed BWF timestamps for use in broadcast applications.
Edit View
In Audition's Edit view (you double click on a file in your multitrack panel to bring it up), you can add effects and clean up clips, like pops and clicks in your audio. While effects and edits made in multitrack view don't make any permanent change to your original file, changes made in edit view are "destructive" - you permanently change your original file.
In the "spectral view", which displays your clip as a colourful visual spectrum of sound, you can do some impressive audio cleaning with a new lasso tool. You select an element by drawing around it and then cut and paste your audio. It's a useful addition to the marquee tool, which you use for effecting square or rectangular shaped areas of your clip.
Third view: burning CDs
You might be a making CD, perhaps a soundtrack compilation. This is where you move to Audition's third, CD view, which again shares the program's user-friendly design. It is as easy as dragging and dropping your clips into place and clicking "write CD" to create a Red Book industry standard disc including features like pausing between tracks and adding an ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) id. In CD view, you can rip from existing CDs or add copy protect to your output content. New features in Audition 2.0 also allow you to store CD track lists which you can draw on and modify for later copies, and you can now burn up to 99 copies at once.
Integration with Adobe Production Studio
Adobe have enhanced the video support in Audition: you can import/export in AVI, MPEG, QuickTime and WMV formats and you can launch audio from directly in Premiere Pro and After Effects to edit in Audition even if you didn't create the original in Audition. Thanks to Adobe's Dynamic Link feature any updates to audio files created in Audition are automatically reflected back in the other programs.
Audition carries a single dedicated video track and a preview monitor so that you can do an audio mix in synch with your footage as it plays. The footage on the video track shows up as a thumbnail, to help navigate to a relevant spot. Very handy.
If you plan on distributing your work, Adobe Illustrator 2.0, part of the Studio package, comes with an impressive selection of templates for CD labels, CD sleeves and publicity material.
Conclusion
Audition 2.0 is a great move forward on the previous version, particularly in its new look and feel. It is more than up to the task for most film and video projects and greater integration with Premiere Pro 2.0 and After Effects 7.0 can only make life easier.
System Requirements:
Processor: Intel Pentium III or 4 (Pentium 4 required for video)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
RAM: 512MB (1GB recommended)
Hard Disk: 700MB of available hard disk space (5.5GB recommended for installing optional audio clips)
Display: 1,024x768 (1,280x1,024 recommended)
Sound Card: DirectSound or ASIO drivers (multitrack ASIO sound card recommended)