Customer Reviews

Adobe Audition v.3.0

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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.

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.

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.

I'm always impressed with the quality of Adobe software products and Audition is no exception.

The product is incredibly poweful, with gobs of useful effects and approachable controls. Normalizing a track is very easy and effective. The filters and equalizers are very easy to use, though a little tricky to use. The learning curve for applying most filters is mitigated because they can be applied to a stream while the stream is playing; their effect isn't always immediate, but close enough that you're not stuck changing, listening, changing back, and waiting.

The graphics and the user interface presentation are top-notch; the program paints waveforms and scrolls very quickly, zooming conveniently and highlighting and drawing flawlessly. There are a few small bugs in the UI (like "Cool Edit" remaining in some captions, and some windows receiving a flashy custom painting scheme, but others not). None of these problems gets in the way of productivity, however.

There's a whole CD full of loops in the package, and even more can be downloaded from Adobe online for free!

Some of the program's stregnths are some of its weaknesses. It's incredible power is intimidating, so plan on spending some time learning and playing with the options before you feel comfortable using them. The program is also very resource hungry; WAV files take up tons of disk space, so you'll want a fast disk subsystem and plenty of memory.