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Adobe Audition - Worth Opening/Using?
I have the Adobe Creative Cloud package for bill-paying purposes (work) and now realize I have a shiny unopened Adobe Audition as a bolt-on. Anyone got thoughts/experience? Worth the effort to get to know it better?
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It's a fine program for editing audio and workable as a DAW. It's generally used in post-production for TV, radio, and podcasts. I have an older version, but rarely use it as Audacity usually fits the bill.
@telecharge Thanks for the note. Interesting. For my sins (and wearing another and more unsuitable hat) I do sometimes have to produce the odd dull podcast. Will look further. If anyone out there uses it for anything else in particular or has, say, a specific feature they know to be useful or different I'd love to hear about it.
Audacity is a little easier to use, Audition is much more powerful
Audition is born of Adobe's purchase of the classic Cool Edit Pro. I haven't messed with the most recent versions but it's a very very capable digital audio workstation, it's just not a terribly musical one. Perfectly suited to audio montaging and multi track editing (it's positioned as Premiere's audio companion) but not so much with the tempo based effects, you know? It's pretty much the standard for radio commercials and bumps (or it was a few years ago!).
Yup. Spent an hour poking it with a stick and it certainly has the muscle to poke back.
Doing a bunch of technical soundtrack work currently (nothing exciting; buhlieve me). Ironically for an association's online forum, kind of cod-radio spots, and I can see this might be right. But while my commercial brain is trying to simplify problems, my true self just wants to figure out how I can use this as an additional music toolbox....
Should be capable for mastering—setting relative levels between songs, per song compression, overall compression.... Probably very capable for slicing up material to use in sample based instruments as well. Or any audio editing tasks, really. Will feel like visiting Paris with a lot of money as compared to Hokusai's Cleveland on a budget.
I use it for fixing clicks and pops in recorded audio, it works reasonably well for that purpose.
I use Audition to create sound cues for theater. My wife uses it at the radio station where she works to create liners, ads etc. It doesn't have the power (or complexity) of the major DAWS. I think of it as an assembler of pieces that have been created elsewhere. The things we use it for are relatively simple. Despite iOS and app compatibility hiccups, she has moved her entire voice-over business onto iPads and I'm not too far behind. I still don't trust the iOS software or my ability to use it under pressure so I end up using Audition quite a bit.
Audition is easy to learn and ships with a decent selection of time-based, dynamic and EQ effects. Some of the included effects like noise reduction, pitch shift and time stretch are primitive and not very useful. It does accept plugins though. Adobe hasn't broken much design sweat since acquiring Cool Edit Pro years ago. I don't think Cool Edit was designed as a full fledged multitracker and this weakness shows in Audition. Unless things have changed in Creative Cloud, the lack of automation in mixdown is a real pain sometimes.
For those who want to try it- With an Adobe ID, you can get Audition 3 for free - at the Adobe site, search for Creative Suite 2 activation. They will tell you that the suite is no longer supported and no activation is available. They then give you a link to download a copy that needs no activation. You can download Audition 3 separately without having to download the entire suite. Though several newer versions have been released, Audition 3 is the version I see many professionals still using. If it ain't broke...
I assume that since Adobe is basically giving it away there are probably hundreds of sites you can download the same installation files.
@donb720 Interesting insight. I think it will be perfect (if I can be bothered to spend a little time amongst it) for my commercial needs, but maybe not so much for the other side of the church and state equation.....perhaps not such a bad thing.
@richardyot When you say 'fixing pops and clicks' (Lord knows I have many of those), just via general sample editing or a specific tool? Might be a good place or motivation for me to learn/start etc.
@JohnnyGoodyear http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-audition-cc/using-the-clickpop-eliminator-and-declicker-effects/
I did a lot of audio restoration of old records and tapes with Audition 3 and that went very well (recording with Audition, removing pops & clicks & tapehiss, and converting to mp3). Never used the multitrack functionality... Since 2 years now I use Reaper (my favorite DAW!) for that kind of work, because it has VST's built in that do the same (and better) and non-destructive!
Thanks @Harro, glad to hear it was useful to you. As for Reaper, no doubt it's lovely, but it's not for free and sitting on my desktop imploring me to use it
@telecharge I appreciate the link. Very kind. I have to persuade myself I am making a living today sat at this desk and that tutorial seems like a justifiable strategy for time investment
Super annoying Adobe evangelist at some Vegas event leads this clip, but I do like how he loses the clipping/distortion on a voice piece. Will be very useful to me I think and I pass it along for anyone who's ever been driven mad by just a little distortion that seems to have ruined an otherwise good take:
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-at-nab-2014/audio-adobe-tools-for-postproduction/
I'm already thinking that for me Audition is going to be a Doctor's black bag more than anything else more musical....
bump because of the movers and packers spam.