*Adobe Audition* started life as a simple audio editor called Cool Edit Pro
until Adobe saw that the big money was in music creation software. Adobe
Audition has been available on Windows for many years now as a multi-track
recording studio that offers all the refinement you expect in Adobe products
but may leave beginners floundering in technical jargon. However, only now
has it arrived on Mac but it has been completely re-written to provide
cross-platform functionality and modernize it to increase native support for
multicore processors and new hardware. Adobe Audition's *interface is clean*.
Each window is separated by tabs to keep the *File, Effects, Main and Mixer*
sections separate and easy to revert to. If you don't like the layout then
Adobe has provided an *Unlock Panel* option which allows you to detach and
move these windows to a position of your choosing. You can save your own
rearrangements as workplace templates according to the type of project you
are working on. To really get the most out of Adobe Audition, you'll need a
pretty good sound card. For those concerned with MIDI support, Adobe Audition
doesn't offer a great deal in this area and many users report this as one
of the most confusing aspects of the program to configure. To describe all
the editing possibilities of Adobe Audition would involve going into the
minute technicalities of audio composition and compression but there are four
main modes to get to grips with. The first is *Waveform Display* which
displays the wave in graphical form. Second is *Spectral Frequency Display*
which graphically displays the frequency range with colors. *Logarithmic
Display* does exactly the same but obviously displays the wave as a
Logarithm. For producing stereo-sound, there's also *Spectral Pan Display*
and *Spectral Phase Display* which enable you to get stereo sound perfectly
synced. The actual editing in Adobe Audition is performed using the
time-honored *cut and paste functions* common to most audio and video editing
programs. You simply *mark an in and out point* and cut and paste the audio
until it's as you want it. However, the program is much more advanced than
this as it's able to *detect beat patterns and rhythms* and set in and out
points accordingly. To use this function though, you'll have to spend a
long time studying the *Help guide* (which fortunately is very clear and
detailed). You can also use a relatively new function in the audio editing
field called *Frequency Space Editing* which means you can edit certain
frequencies of the sound rather than the wave as a whole. There are also of
course a *heap of effects* that you can apply to sounds ranging from complex
distortions to pitch bending specific frequencies. Adobe Audition has been
updated with a host of new features. Pick of the bunch is probably the way
Adobe has *improved multitrack editing*, added *new effects and enhanced
noise reduction*. They've also added *phase correction tools* plus *VSTi
virtual instrument support and native 5.1 surround support*. The multi-track
editing suite has been improved to save time and maintain consistency by
grouping clips into a *Multitrack View*. From here you can trim and fade much
more easily. You can also *batch save all audio files* applying specific file
formats, locations, filename templates, and more. However, some features from
Adobe Audition 3 on Windows are missing from this Mac version, namely VSTi
support and Spectral Pan and Phase views. *Adobe Audition is a very advanced
program designed only for those who are serious about multi-track audio
production. If you are looking for a simple sound editor, then this is way
too advanced and will only leave you frustrated. If however you want to take
your first few steps into professional editing, the extensive Adobe help
guide will ensure that you get the most out of this rich and complex
program.*Download *Adobe Audition CS6* in Softonic
