Adobe Audition v.3.0

by Adobe

Product Features

• Adobe Audition 3.0 now Adobe Soundbooth CS3

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• ASIN: B0000AJXW3
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 20, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,650 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #78 in Software > Video & Music > Software > Sound Editing
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Adobe Audition software is a professional audio editing environment. Designed for demanding audio and video professionals, Adobe Audition offers advanced audio mixing, editing, and effects-processing capabilities. Its flexible workflow, coupled with exceptional ease of use and precise tools, gives you the power to create rich, nuanced audio of the highest possible quality.

Sound your best

Highest-quality audio
Record, edit, and mix at high-resolution, 32-bit files using any sample rate up to 10 MHz, including standard rates such as 44.1 kHz, 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz, and 192 kHz. Support for 24-bit/96 kHz recording ensures DVD-ready sound production.

Sample accurate editing
Be as precise in your cuts as you like. All edits are sample-accurate and can be automatically snapped to zero crossings; short crossfades can be added for smooth, pop-free cuts every time.

Powerful DSP tools
Work with more than 45 digital signal processing (DSP) tools and effects, mastering and analysis tools, and audio restoration features. Adobe Audition also supports third-party DirectX plug-ins.

Precise sample rate conversions
High-quality, sample rate conversion ensures great-sounding results, and is ideal for up-sampling CD material from 44.1 to 48 kHz for video or 96 kHz for DVD.

Smooth envelope transitions
Non-destructively adjust volume, pan, effects, and more for individual tracks in a multitrack mix. Envelope curves can be adjusted using splines to produce gradual, nonlinear transitions.

Work efficiently

Customizable interface
Get up and running quickly thanks to an intuitive interface that you can configure to meet your production needs. Create default sessions to use as templates for projects that share similar configurations.

Real-time audio effects
Process effects in real-time. To reduce CPU usage, lock a track to cache the rendered effect; unlock it instantly to make adjustments.

Integration with Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects
Import audio from Adobe Premiere Pro or After Effects software for use in Adobe Audition. Use the Edit Original command to make changes to the original WAV file and import the changes into Adobe Audition.

Organizer window
Keep project resources at your fingertips using the Organizer window, where you can access currently-open audio, MIDI, and video files, effects, and favorites.

Multichannel encoder
Use the multichannel encoder to transform any multitrack mix into a surround-sound experience.

Use integrated tools

Complete audio tools
Handle every digital audio editing task within a single application. Adobe Audition includes an integrated multitrack mixing view, a mono and stereo waveform editing view, effects support, and looping capabilities.

Powerful multitrack editing
Use the multitrack view for recording, mixing, and editing sessions with up to 128 stereo tracks. Apply volume, pan, and effects automation envelopes, use real-time effects and EQ on every track, playback AVI and MIDI files, and more.

Audio for video
Open AVI files in the multitrack view and edit the soundtrack in Adobe Audition. Create new soundtracks, sweeten existing recordings, reduce noise, and more.

Loop-based soundtrack creation
Use flexible looping tools to quickly construct high-quality music for songs or movie soundtracks. Loops automatically match global session tempo and key to produce dynamic musical performances.

Thousands of royalty-free music loops
Adobe Audition includes thousands of original, performance-based loops in a wide range of musical genres that you can combine to create your own music beds, songs, soundtracks, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very nice to use, and powerful muiti-track audio editor., September 28, 2003

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S Smyth (Belfast, Co Antrim United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Audition v.3.0 (CD-ROM)

Adobe's Audition is probably the nicest and cleanest looking audio editing desktop environment I've seen. I liked the way in which you can import a CD track directly without having to launch a CD player beforehand, and the `Save As' options are plentiful.

You also have 128 tracks onto which you can have music and sound effects for when you're making digital videos, and are able to synchronize these tracks with an editing application such as Adobe's Premiere, to get around its usable. but limited. audio capabilities.

Audition can also apply many temporal and tonal effects.

Not so very long ago you needed racks of outboard gear including timecode locked multi-track tape-machines costing tens of thousands of dollars to do the basics of what can be done with Audition. I look back at that time and am frankly amazed at how much today's powerful PCs allied to inexpensive software can do for those interested in audio and digital film production without breaking the bank.

This is a very good and sophisticated product that goes beyond the basics that many people would require, but if they are anticipating the need to go beyond a basic editing application, Audition would be a great choice.

Be sure to use a fast, up-to-date computer, with lots of hard drive space - preferably as separate hard drives attached to independent IDE or RAID controllers - if you intend to be doing complex projects. Also keep the drives defragged to keep it all humming along.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Stuff, August 22, 2003

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Randy Given (Manchester, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Audition v.3.0 (CD-ROM)

This is great stuff. This is essentially a port of Cool Edit Pro, but may undergo changes in the future. This appears to fit well in the Adobe family of offerings. I use this to take MP3 recordings from church sermons and do manipulations (trim, mono, de-noise, filter, normalize) to make them sound much better. For single track work it may be overkill (Cool Edit 2000) may suffice. The 128 tracks are very nice to have handy. With the extensive number of (free!) loops online, it is great. Setting up tracks and loops is easy and intuitive.

5.0 out of 5 stars Adobe Audition is Great, April 18, 2011

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alison lorraine (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Adobe Audition v.3.0 (CD-ROM)

I've used Adobe Audition for over 10 years, even back when it was called Cool Edit Pro, for processing recorded audio. Audition is top-notch for comping and editing vocals, and works especially well for getting those nagging pops and other noise out of great vocal and other microphoned takes.

I first used Cool Edit while living in Australia, then came back to the US to find out it had been acquired by Adobe (and props to Adobe for taking a great product and making it even better).

I record in Pro Tools then use Audition for cleaning up vocals and other tracks. The noise reduction tools are great and it is possible to remove background noise (like traffic, construction sounds, phones and other things) from takes by using the noise profile capture tool. I've taken some professional masters and done additional post-prod on them using this program, and the masters sounded even better.

If you record at home in a somewhat noisy environment, this program will be a big help.