You can also move around and dock panels that you use the most. It boasts a sleek interface, dividing various features by tabs. The Adobe Web site also provides extensive tutorials, forums, and troubleshooting information.Although the app has a bit of a learning curve, Adobe Audition is an excellent choice for an offline audio workstation. Paid support is available for other issues, on a per-call basis or through service plans. On issues related to installation and product defects, Adobe offers complimentary, but not toll-free, phone support for registered copies of current products, Monday through Friday from 6 a.m.
The new built-in CD-burning application is a bonus. You can even use the Multichannel Encoder feature to transform any multitrack mix into a 5.1 surround-sound track. A number of video formats, including WMV, MPEG, AVI, and native DV are supported as well. More than 20 popular audio file formats and variations are supported for import, including WAV, AIFF, MP3, and WMA. Adobe recommends using a Windows XP system running a 2GHz processor with 512MB of RAM however, the application will run on 400MHz systems with 64MB of RAM. In a complex multitrack production, you can lock tracks to remove them from the processing overhead. In Waveform view, you adjust effect options and preview them in real time, then Audition applies them to the audio samples (again, in a few seconds).
In Multitrack view, it renders effects as they are applied (in a handful of seconds), then provides real-time playback. We appreciate the separate disc, since installing all these loops with the app takes up roughly 700MB of space.Īudition runs smoothly through the entire process of audio recording, mixing, editing, and applying effects. This includes more than 5,000 high-quality royalty-free music loops, organized in 21 major categories from Classical and Blues to Techno and World, and also "moods" from Ambient to Lounge to Weddings. Along with the installation CD, you get a second disc with "loopology" content. Although experienced audio editors will get the best use out of this program, several useful features are simple enough for beginners.Īudition installs cleanly as a standalone product or as part of the Adobe Video Collection suite.
Version 1.5, which is fairly priced at $299, results in a dynamic yet accessible audio-editing powerhouse, now better integrated into the Adobe video-editing product suite. Find out more here.Īdobe acquired Syntrillium Software in May 2003 and morphed its flagship Cool Edit Pro product into Adobe Audition. Editors' note: We have changed the ratings in this review to reflect recent changes in our ratings scale.
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