Open Mic: Are You Tempted By the New Version of Adobe Audition?

Open Mic: Are You Tempted By the New Version of Adobe Audition?

on Apr 25th 2012 with 7 comments

Each week we open our mic to readers and lurkers alike to come out of the woodwork and tell us your thoughts and opinion, your experiences and mistakes, what you love and what you hate. We want to hear from you, and here’s your chance.

The new Adobe Suite has just come out, packed with improvements and new features. That news might not be as exciting in the audio world as it is in the graphical. Do Adobe Audition’s new features tempt you?

Adobe Audion is commonly used by people who use one of Adobe’s other apps – say Photoshop or After Effects – and need an audio editor from time to time. But it doesn’t seem to be a favorite among audio producers, including the readers here at Audiotuts+.

Adobe lists a slew of new features for Adobe Audion CS6 (see below). Do these features tempt you to take Audion more seriously, or switch to it as your main DAW? Let us know in the poll.

Check out the new features here.

Update: Apologies, I created this post in Kuala Lumpur (at the Envato Meetup) with spotty internet. It looks like the final updates didn’t get through, and the post was a bit of a mess. The poll is now the correct one.

 
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  • Shawn

    I’ve been a fan of Audition since it was Cool Edit Pro. At that time (when I was in high school) I mainly used it for simple editing of Mp3s and other already produced audio files. It was always just easy and straight forward. As I began getting into recording stuff it was always something I deferred back to when ProTools was giving me problems.

    A little disappointed that some of the “new features” are simply features that they stupidly removed in the previous addition (“new effects” like generate tones? How was that NOT in the most recent issue?. But hopefully the HD video editing works better than it has lately.

    • Mister Graves

      I was going to say exactly what you did regarding the “new” features.
      I also started with Cool Edit Pro.
      CS5 was a disaster for those of us who use(d) Audition to record music.
      Looks like CS6 will start to get it back on track, but unless I’m editing video, I’ve moved on to Cubase.

  • Shawn

    I’ve been a fan of Audition since it was Cool Edit Pro. At that time (when I was in high school) I mainly used it for simple editing of Mp3s and other already produced audio files. It was always just easy and straight forward. As I began getting into recording stuff it was always something I deferred back to when ProTools was giving me problems.

    A little disappointed that some of the “new features” are simply features that they stupidly removed in the previous addition (“new effects” like generate tones? How was that NOT in the most recent issue?. But hopefully the HD video editing works better than it has lately.

  • Lye

    I might normally be but I’m too excited about the possibility of Bitwig and Ableton 9 to care.

  • Darren

    Audition isn’t great for multitrack audio production and musical experimentation/creation, but it is fantastic for post-production applications, namely radio.

    Probably about 80% of radio stations use audition for their editing and recording purposes.

    Looking forward to a new release from that end, but from the creation end of it, not so much. The multitrack has never been very good.

  • Ars3ne

    Hi everybody. I’ve used cool edit pro,audition 1.5 and 3.0 for recording and editing when i was still making beats on fl studio. At that time i wanted a software with to record with on top of the beat. After i saw someone making a beat,recording and mastering in logic pro 8, i figured out how easy and precise i would be in the mixing process as i would have the whole set of instrument and vocals at one place. Thats when i got Cubase 5, and really like its stability on pc, i sometimes think that it is a mac i’m using.lol. Coming back to audition i dont like how it crashes every time on Rewire with fl studio,how it is CPU intensive. I would use audition if it had midi support and vst instruments. I would recommend it to fl studio,ableton and early Reason users to use in edit and recording vocals.

  • Sergiu

    If they would reinvent Audition to allow more creativity like all the other Adobe products we grew to love and get it to the DAW current standards I would be interested until then, same as Lye, I’ll be eager to see the new Ableton Live 9.