Customer Reviews

Adobe Audition 2.0 [OLD VERSION]

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

If, like myself, you have many DX and VST plug-ins installed on your system, then Audition 2.0 is definitely NOT the choice with you. Somehow, the idiots who made this junk have made it completely incompatible with 3rd-party plugs such as Waves Diamond Bundle. Oddly enough, this was not a problem in earlier editions of Audition, or its former incarnation, CoolEdit. But now, Audition crashes irrevocably when trying to use many VST and DX plugs (except, of course, the ones made by Adobe themselves.)

Bottom line? This software is crap. Absolute crap. If you're serious about audio production, go with Wavelab. Heck, even free multitrack audio software like Kristal works better than this.

If, for some reason, you absolutely need Audition, then go with an earlier, more stable version, such as 1.5.

2.0 is about as useful as a football bat.

I agree with the other reviews this is a horrible piece of software. I am a software developer and have written some serious applications in my career, and this one ranks at the bottom of the barrel.

I have a stock Dell XP machine, and after a 15-minute install, Audition 2.0 crashes every time on startup. I never even got it to run. Tried calling Adobe support -- useless...waited 35 minutes on hold then hung up. Search of Google groups for answers revealed nothing, as did their support site.

I *loved* Cool Edit 2000, and even Audition 1.5 to some degree. This new version is what happens when too many engineers get put on a project. It's a remnant of a once great application. Avoid it like the plague.

I'm rating this program 3 stars because it's still a phenomenal value in comparison to its competition. That being said, I think 2.0's big increases in speed and ability to mix non-destructively come at far too big a cost.

There are several key changes that are terrible mistakes in this version. The new direct-to-file recording is an enormous waste and very, very confusing as it automatically names new clips before you record them. And there's no way to turn it off.

Violating a very basic concept of digital audio workflow, Audition 2.0 now requires you to manually make each and every clip play when it overlaps another even by a single sample. This is utter insanity.

And there are other huge performance issues here and there. ASIO implementation is strange (the application won't share native drivers with other applications -- an enormous problem if you want to run a sequencer or softsynth alongside Audition). It's nice to have VST support, but preview simply DOES NOT WORK with these effects, even on the extremely powerful machine I'm using it on.

And why do Adobe products use their own keyboard shortcuts, in total violation of every Windows convention? Things like the "Save As" shortcuts should never, ever be unique to an application.

Bad move here, Adobe. Let's hope 2.1 fixes some of these issues.

Adobe Audition is my favorite program. I use it more than any other program I have on my computer. I have used it to restore thousands of old phonograph discs. I am only giving them one star because I can't give them no stars for this joke.

I knew this was going to happen. I had been using Cool Edit Pro for a long time when Adobe bought it and I knew that they were going to turn it into an Adobe product and screw it all up. I am very fortunate that I went to Adobes web site and downloaded the free trail version. I would have been really upset if I had actually paid money for this dog.

Lets start with the boot up time. I own a 2 year old average laptop and Audition 1.5 used to boot in about 2 seconds. 2.0 takes 20 seconds. That is almost as long as Photoshop or Premiere Pro.

Next we have the user interface. They destroyed it. And the old one worked so well. Adobe is really hung up about making absolutely everything a "Palette" and so now every little thing is a palette, allowing you to resize and relocate them to your hearts desire. But after about a half an hour of trying I'll be darned if I could not make the 2.0 interface remotely resemble the 1.5 interface.

The shortcuts buttons have been removed (wow that makes a lot of sense), however you can get it back if you look long enough for the place to do it. (Don't bother to right-click anything, in their imperial wisdom right-clicking is now pretty useless.) But if you do put the shortcuts back up they are now all black and white and it is really difficult to find the one you want. In place of the shortcuts they added some icons that I have yet to figure out or to need. What are they thinking????

A lot of the presets have been reconfigured and trying to figure them out gave me a headache.

After several hours of playing with this pile of garbage I decided to uninstall it and return to using 1.5.

I suppose you could blame this on my system/drivers, but when Audition 1.5 fires up and works every time, and Audition 2.0 will freeze my machine after closing it, I guess I tend to go with 1.5.

So it may work fine for you. I have several audio interfaces, and a TON of VST's, which are probably part of Audition's problem.

The audio hardware configuration is confusing in Audition 2.0 and seems a little flaky, for instance, 2.0 won't recognize my Samson CO1U USB mic although 1.5 did. The hardware configuration UI in 1.5 is more like the hardware config UI in Sonar and Reason and Live.

Like the title says, Was a good program when it was Cool Edit Pro and NOW? well still just a good program and Alot over priced. I would think it would be better priced around $99 to $139 range. Been using Cool edit for years and needed this for my laptop.

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Interesting that so many people here seem to have issues with VST plugins with Audition 2...I have a huge collection of VST plug-ins that are used on a daily basis (I'm the production director at a radio station) and have never run across a VST or DX plug-in that I cannot get to work with Audition. It helps to know how to actually install these plug-ins, of course....

Just a few words about Adobe Audition 2.0 ...I have many types of studio software for use in my studio, but Audition is my favorite choice of application. Easy to use with high grade results. I've seen many negitive reviews for this product but in my studio it works flawless with all my equipment plugins. My studio is top of the line and I offer everything available up to HD recording. Do your research then choose carfully, there are many software products that are not exceptable with all plugin equipment. Audition 2.0 is a great add for any studio.
Thanx Adobe !
J.R. Marshall Productions

I usually don't write reviews, but so many people seemed dissatisfied that I thought I would share my experience with adobe audition. Let me first state that I am not a professional (or even a good) musician. I have spent some time reading about and experimenting with several DAWs, however, and I have really enjoyed adobe audition 2.

I haven't had any of the system troubles of other people. I run a moderately powerful (2.4 ghz dualcore, 4 gb of ram) system so maybe that is why. I also do not use a ton of VSTs, but the few that I do use (guitar rig 2 being the main one) work fine, including in preview mode. I also have been happy with my ability to rewire adobe audition to Fruity Loops 7 to be able to play my edited loops along with my recording and manipulate both in real-time. The wave-form editor is very powerful and spectral display is nice. The ability to add many automations to a track at once is nice and very simple, and I found the layout fairly easy to use. The standard included effects and processing tools(pitch shifting, auto tuning, multiband compression, parametric eq, noise reduction, reverb, delay, etc) are ok, but I assume serious musicians probably would want to replace some of them with VSTs that sound better or are more complex. You can also integrate this with adobe's suite of programs using bridge (For example, I used audition to make the make the audio for a friend's dental school project video and then was able to bridge it into adobe premier for video editing, and bridge in still photos from photoshop). I found it easy to record multiple tracks at once into audition with no latency issues (I have a creative platinum fatal1ty soundcard, decent but far from the best).

Finally, when I searched for professional and website reviews they seemed mostly positive, so it may be that amazon reviews are not indicative of most people's experience with the program. Anyway, I am not trying to contradict other reviewers, it may be that audition does not integrate with a lot of VSTs, and maybe on most systems it is buggy. I also use a lot of adobe programs (my work uses almost all adobe software and I have grown to like it), so I may be biased. There is also a steep learning curve with this (and probably most other) DAW, so if you don't take the time to really figure the workstation out it is probably easy to write the program off. For me, however, I find it to be a powerful tool and it might be worth getting the demo to check out if it is right for your system and your needs.

I have been a end user of v1.0 since it's creation. Ver 2.0 offers new features that are an improvement to some extent. Major drawback is you can only register versions 2.0 & 3.0 to ONE user/computer at a time. I use a laptop at the gigs to record the project and would transfer info & tracks to my home computer for completion. NOT anymore using v2.0 & v3.0. Using 2 different versions is a pain as they are DOWNWARD compatible ONLY. A call to Adobe for help didn't solve the 1 user/computer problem but got me v3.0 UPGRADE for the cost of shipping only ($4.95) Not a bad deal but the same problem still exists. I rate v2.0 and v3.0 as a solid 8 out of 10 for nice features but it's hard to teach old dogs new tricks! :)