Adobe Audition CS6

Adobe Audition CS6

Edit audio faster and with more precision with Adobe® Audition® CS6 software. Clean up audio, quickly align and edit dialogue, change clip pitch and speed, automate mixes with control surface support, and collaborate more easily with a host of new and improved features.

Fast, precise editing
Accomplish more in less time with intuitive editing, sound design, processing, mixing, and mastering tools, optimized for film, video, and radio workflows. Speed up production with the high-performance, cross-platform software that streamlines production with improved features for file preview, clip spotting, audio sweetening, project sharing, and more.

Real-time clip stretching
Stretch clips nondestructively in real time. Preview changes and settings, and render for higher quality results. New varispeed mode adjusts speed and pitch together.

Automatic speech alignment
Quickly align and replace location dialogue with studio recordings, even with noisy production tracks. Fixing lip sync issues can now be completed in a fraction of the time.

EUCON and other control surface support
Work with control surfaces that use Mackie Control and Mackie Logic protocols, as well as Avid Artist Series control surfaces with native EUCON support.

Parameter automation
Automate entire mixes with new write, latch, and touch parameter automation modes.

Powerful pitch correction
Correct pitch problems automatically or with manual control. Compare pitch adjustments with the original in the Spectral Pitch Display view.

Tools for efficient session management
Work more efficiently with the new Media Browser for easy preview and import of assets, the Quick Search field in the Files panel, customizable session templates, and more.

Expanded output options
Deliver and archive your projects with more flexible delivery options such as output to audio CD, session archiving that saves all files, and expanded mixdown options.

Loudness standard compliance
Match volume to ITU BS.1770-2 loudness standards for advertising volume and noise.

HD video playback
Import and play back HD video without transcoding.

New effects
Design sounds with new effects including Generate Tones, Graphic Phase Shifter, Doppler Shifter, and Notch Filter.

Powerful effects routing and VST3 support
Increase flexibility for mixing and effects channel routing. Improve third-party plug-in compatibility and open up options for new effects with VST3 compatibility.

Simplified Metadata and Markers panels
View and edit XMP metadata, including BWF schema, Cart Chunk, and Radio Industry RIFF, enabling automated workflows within Adobe Creative Suite® Production Premium software and other production systems.
Expanded audio and video file formats
Import, play back, convert, and mix down to more video and audio formats such as FLAC, OGG, HE-AAC, WMA, MPEG-1 Layer 2, RAW, and more.
Improved batch processing
Streamline your workflow with improved batch processing that enables you to convert files to new formats or sample rates and apply Favorites at any time.
User-driven workflow improvements
Enjoy many new and updated features in Adobe Audition CS6 that are user requests, such as CD burning, multiple clipboards, the Metronome, and more.
Clip grouping
Edit multiple clips simultaneously, even if they are not in the same group. Use the new Suspend Groups feature to make edits to individual clips while maintaining the grouping.
Editing preview with selective skipping
Preflight deletions and fine-tune selections by listening to just the pre-roll and post-roll around a selection.
Trim to Selection
Make clip lengths automatically match a selection with the new Trim to Selection command in the Multitrack Editor.
Multiple clipboards
Keep multiple selections in memory for fast access to audio you wish to use repeatedly.
Support for more frame rates
Work with all types of footage with broader support for many video formats and frame rates, such as 23.976 and 59.94fps.
Favorites in Effects Rack
Apply your most commonly used effects combinations easily by saving them as Favorites.
Automatic retrieval of CD titles
Include CD track names automatically during import from audio CD.
Improved keyboard shortcut manager
Customize your workflow and increase productivity by configuring keyboard shortcuts more easily.
Metronome
Keep time accurately when recording audio with the new Metronome.


Adobe Audition CS5.5 / Features

Bring new efficiency to your audio post-production workflows with intuitive multitrack recording, editing, and mixing capabilities; greater workflow flexibility; and optimized performance in Adobe® Audition® CS5.5 software.

Native Mac OS support
Record, mix, edit, and master your audio with a powerful cross-platform audio toolset: Adobe Audition CS5.5 runs natively on Mac OS X v10.5 and v10.6 as well as Windows®.

New high-performance audio engine
Experience greater speed throughout the audio production process with the new audio engine in Adobe Audition CS5.5, whether opening and saving files, processing multicore effects, or simultaneously editing multiple sessions.

Roundtrip editing with Adobe Premiere Pro
Easily sweeten audio for video. Pass individual clips and multitrack mixes from Adobe Premiere® Pro CS5.5 software to Adobe Audition for editing, or send Adobe Premiere Pro sequences with a reference video to Adobe Audition for complete soundtrack creation.

Project exchange with third-party NLEs and DAWs
Easily move sessions between Adobe Audition and Avid Pro Tools using built-in OMF import and export functions in Adobe Audition. Share files with other video NLEs via XML interchange.

Native 5.1 multichannel support
Edit multichannel files and mix your projects in 5.1 surround. Adobe Audition CS5.5 includes a Surround Panner in the Mixer View, as well as a new Surround Reverb effect and Amplify, a multichannel gain processor.

Effects workflow enhancements
Edit and play audio while adjusting settings for multiple effects simultaneously in the new modeless effects racks. Experiment with different effect settings while making selections or edits in the Waveform Editor.

Royalty-free content in Resource Central
Use the new Resource Central panel in Adobe Audition to access thousands of royalty-free sound effects, loops, and music beds that you can drag and drop directly into your creative projects.

Native audio effects
Improve performance with native support for audio effects. Effects added in Adobe Audition CS5.5 include a DeHummer, DeEsser, Speech Volume Leveler, and Surround Reverb for working with 5.1 surround projects.

Simplified XMP metadata panel
View and edit XMP metadata using a simplified interface. Support for XMP metadata includes the Broadcast WAV (BWF) schema, enabling automated workflows within Adobe Creative Suite® Production Premium software and other radio and TV production systems.

Auto-saved XML session files
Save your sessions in the robust, flexible, and nondestructive XML format. Undo unwanted changes with the new History panel. Import Adobe Audition 3 sessions and then save them as XML.

History panel
Edit, arrange, and mix with confidence, knowing that you can easily revert to previous states using the new History panel.


Changes in Adobe Audition 3.0.1:
• Spectral tools no longer crash machines with more than four CPU cores.
• The Graphic Phase Shifter effect has been reenabled.
• Performance while recording MIDI data has been improved.
• The Sequencer will now record MIDI data even if the panel is closed.
• Adobe Audition will now launch on Windows Vista® systems where the My Documents folder was moved from the default location.
• The application will now ignore Windows "Locale" settings to format decimal data in comma-delimited XML settings files.
• A Healing Brush crash issue has been addressed.
• Crossfades are no longer incorrectly added to grouped clips when overlapped with non-grouped clips.
• Invalid crossfades will no longer be added to the end of a previously trimmed clip after enabling or disabling looping.
• Invalid crossfades for clips after enabling non-session tempo-based looping have been addressed.
• Dragging crossfaded clips onto the master track no longer creates two additional tracks and an error in the crossfades.
• Inserting MIDI from the Files panel would cause the application to hang in Edit mode for an audio file whose sample rate didn't match the session.
• Several scenarios where crossfade changes could corrupt a session were addressed.
• Closing a session without exiting the rewire app no longer causes Adobe Audition to save a blank session.
• Undo no longer becomes disabled after undoing the creation of unique copies of two crossfaded clips.
• Crossfaded clips no longer disappear after undoing move clips.
• Canceling VST scan no longer causes Adobe Audition to become unstable.
• If a selection existed, a full session mixdown would only process MIDI data through the end of the selection.
• The Open MIDI dialog box was not completely modal and could cause a crash.
• MIDI Host had problems with some Spectrasonics VSTi instruments, where it wouldn't show the entire UI.
• CD burning would sometimes create a corrupted disk but still report a successful burn.
• Applying the Clip/Pop Eliminator no longer crashes the application.
• Crash recovery is now more reliable when using Auto-Save For Recovery.
• When the application detects the possible saving failure that causes a corrupted session, a warning dialog box now appears so users can retry the save.
• Transport controls are no longer disabled if a new session is opened without closing the existing session.
• Crossfades will now retain their original shape when clips are moved and the session is reopened.


What's new in Adobe Audition 2.0
Find out about all the new features in Adobe Audition 2.0, including low-latency mixing, ASIO support, and audible scrubbing.
http://www.adobe.com/products/audition/newfeatures.html


v1.5
Integrated CD burning
Create quick reference masters of your compositions by burning gapless audio CDs directly from Adobe Audition.

ReWire support
Stream full-resolution audio data in real time between Adobe Audition and other audio software such as Propellerhead Reason and Ableton Live.

VST plug-in support
Expand your options with integrated support for third-party VST effects, which can also be used in Adobe Premiere® Pro software.

Frequency space editing
Visually isolate and select sounds in frequency and time using a marquee selection tool in the spectral editing view, and then clean up, modify, or apply effects to the selected sound.

Pitch correction
Correct off-pitch performances and create pitch-based effects using the new pitch correction effects. Use the automatic mode for quick results or the manual mode for precise control.

Enhanced support for video
Edit video soundtracks more easily with the ability to view video frames in the Timeline and import a wide range of file formats, including AVI, native DV, MPEG, and WMV.

Clip time stretching
Visually drag the edge of any audio clip in a multitrack mix to fit a specific length of time with or without affecting the clip's pitch; this is ideal for making sound effects and dialog fit a given video clip.

Automatic click/pop elimination
Quickly and easily restore digital recordings of vinyl source material, wireless mikes, DV cameras, and other production audio.

New sample sessions
Get up to speed quickly by using any of the 20 sample sessions included with Adobe Audition, or modify the sample sessions to create your own music.

Vocal/instrumental extraction
Reduce the vocal or instrumental portions of a track and create a cappella and karaoke-ready tracks while preserving the stereo image with the new Center Channel Extractor tool.

New royalty-free loops
Create your own music using more than 500 new production music loops — for a total of more than 5,000 — in a variety of styles including '70s disco, rumba, and loops for weddings and events.

Save custom keyboard shortcuts
Create customized keyboard shortcut sets to suit your working style.

Flexible envelope scaling
Rescale points on pan, volume, and effect envelopes to make changes to a clip in a multitrack mix. Scale all points while maintaining relative or absolute relationships between points.


All new features:
http://www.adobe.com/products/audition/pdfs/audition_nfhs.pdf