I'm currently trying to record my first song with CS6. I used Cool edit before and people have told me that AA's way better.

However I have many questoins regarding recording effects. Here are my questions.

1. How to use Auto-tune in CS6?

2. How to lower the pitch of one instrumental without changing much of its quality?  I'd like to lower the pitch, record my voice, then increase the pitch of my voice to where the instrumental was originally. (I am trying to remix a song with Chris Brown on the hook so it is killing me)

3. What is the normal procedure of improving the vocal effects after recording? Like some kind of effect that makes your voice sound professional. (I usually make rap songs and sing sometimes, so what are the effects we should use?)

Pardon me if my questions are too simple. English is not my 1st language and I don't really understand all the terminologies in CS6.

Thanks guys.

I think its related to upgrading to Mountain Lion on mac, but very recently at least, Audition now refuses to play.

It launches ok, loads a file ok, but when I hit space bar or play button, it looks like it should be playing, but its just stopped. Has anyone else had this behavior?

I really need Audition so its very annoying!

Mark

Long time Logic user, but for radio production there are some very appealing features in Audition CS6. However, I can't seem to get my Faderport to work. It is recognized as a Mackie device under control surface preferences, yet it fails to operate. Asian sub-continent "tech support" was less than clueless, so I though I though I would check via this medium. Thanks in advance!

Hello...

On Mac OSX 10.7 in Audtion 5.5, I export files as MP3 all the time.  One time, about 4 months ago, I exported a track at 32kbps to upload a large file to the web.  Now, every time I export an MP3, it's default is set to 32kbps.  I have to change it back every time to 128.  Can anyone tell me how to change the default export settings back to Last Used... or at least to a specified setting?

Thanks...

Brian

Hi,

I,am a video editor/producer and am now producing a series of audio books. I purchased "Adobe Audition" and am impressed with the program.

As I,am a video editor, sound is "New" to me some so help here would be apricated.

I,am recording with an older actor his voice sometimes produces "Smacking" or "Gulping" Swollowing noises. I assume he has moist mouth or something like that.

Never the less he has a great voice and I want to use him but need to get rid of the noises. Any help out there.

Regards

Matt

Hi - Please forgive my ignorance I have a lot to learn about audio recording but I have searched these forums and the web extensively as well as trial and error and I'm stumped.

I've just got a copy of Adobe Audition and have been asked to create audio prompts for a unity Connection (CISCO) phone system.

The parameters I've been given are as follows:

Bit rate: 64kbps

Audio sample size: 8 bit

Channels: 1 (mono)

Audio sample rate: 8khz

Audio format: CCITT U-law

I think I have found where to adjust all of the parameters above except the audio format.

I found information proclaiming that these audio prompts can be created with Audition (even recomended) but no actual step by step instructions.
I also found some free conversion tools. I tried recording it with Audition and converting. The quality is severely worse off after conversion. I guess this is to be expected with 8 bit but I would like to have the best quality possible.

I got a decent sounding 8-bit recording in Audition but in the properties of the resulting .wav file for the file details it states encoder settings: PCM:

Whereas the one I convert with the free converter shows Encoder Settings: CCITT u-Law

SO my question is... How can I get the ecoder settings to read CCITT u-Law when saving/exporting directly from Audition?

And any tips for maximizing the quality of the recording are appreciated. You can see the settings I chose above.

Many thanks for any guidance you can provide.

Best,

Aimee

Hi,

I've got a video with audio recorded on a separate device. I loaded both the video and the audio into Audition, matched them up in the multi-tracker, and now I'm completely stuck on how to mix the two together into one video file WITH the audio. I checked the help section on the webpage for Audition 3.0, and it said to go to file -> export -> FILE, but that option is grey/unavailable in the Mac beta. I go to file -> export -> MULTITRACK MIXDOWN, and the only thing I can export are audio files. There's a .mov option, but it says "audio only".

So, how do I make use of the video functionality of Adobe Audition, in order to create a video file from this editing process?

Please do not mistake this thread for a dupe of the other thread of a similar topic, I'd like to give a more in depth opinion of the new version of Audition compared to its predecessor.

For the past five years I have spent many hours of most days experimenting with audio, specifically audio restoration. I tried countless other applications before discovering Audition and none could offer what I was looking for. When I did discover Audition (version 3), about 3 years ago, it is one of the very few pieces of software I have since installed on every computer I use. It was extremely easy to use whilst having an incredible array of functions. The help manual was extremely comprehensive, giving detailed instructions and explanation of every single option in Audition, this alone I thought deserves praise. The program constantly delighted me; it seemed tailored to the needs of someone who would be using it to its full potential. I was constantly discovering new levels of potential that Audition offered and it has been the invaluable in allowing me to provide much needed audio restoration for vinyl rips of tunes that would otherwise become lost forever. With all that Audition v3 offered I could master even the worst, hiss-filled, click-ridden, muffled vinyl rips to recordings that would sound perfectly acceptable to be released on professional CDs.

I could not fault Audition v3, but I could, however, think of improvements, albeit very few. For years I eagerly awaited a new version and now it has arrived, I have to admit I am a quite disappointed.

The improvements that I had hoped would have been applied, have not. Instead, it seems to be a basic edition of version 3 except with a makeover. It does indeed work slightly faster, for example, instead of taking 6-7 seconds to load a track in version 3, it only seems to take 3-4 in version 4. Unfortunately this is about the only thing I can praise it for. The layout is unnecessarily complicated. I always valued audition for its extremely ergonomic layout, making it an extremely unconfusing application to work with. The new layout is clustered and unnecessary. I appreciate that I can alter the layout to what I would like, but it's unnecessary hassle to have to make it usable - I have never had to alter the layout of version 3 from its default. The available effects of the new version are the same as the old version, this alone was a little disheartening as I was anticipating numerous new abilities, but I can't really think of what else could be added, so I overlooked this. I can't, however, overlook that the processes are far more basic than what they were in version 3 and do not offer the ability to alter them to my exact needs, the declick effect being a prime example. Version 3's declick process had a vast array of settings allowing me to amend them to my exact requirements, the new version simply has 2 sliders, not even a "fix single click" option. I also feel that the help file is marginally more difficult to navigate than in the previous version.

I have to say that I agree with what was said in the previous thread, this new version simply appears to be a rehash of Soundbooth, which I have always perceived (as do many other people I have spoken to) to be a layman's version of Audition v3.

In conclusion, I regret to say that I'm sticking to v3. The new version only offers slightly faster processing, but at the cost of most of its functioning.

What's going on? Surely this is the reverse of how updates work?

I have been using Audtion for almost 10 years.  I have installed Audition on a new desktop.  The message appears:  "The audio input is not activated.  Recording audio is not possible.  Check your audio input configuration."  I have configured the audio from the control panel.  A test reveals that it is picking up on the audio input.  In Audition when I open the equipment set up, it does not recognize any inputs at all.  Do I just need another type of sound card?  Help.

So, many of you have already seen the news online, in blogs, or on twitter, but I wanted to make sure our forums got a little love, too.  The Video and Audio group at Adobe have been granted permission to reveal what's coming in the next release, as we prepare to show and share these features at the upcoming NAB (National Assoc. of Broadcasters) exhibition in Las Vegas, NV.

I've written an overview on the Audition blog, and I'll be happy to extend the discussion here as well.  Briefly, here's a quick glance at what we've been working on:

Sound Remover

Our research team has been exploring a recent technology called Source Separation, and our first implementation offers an improved restoration and sound removal tool.  Whereas our Noise Reduction tool is excellent at cleaning up static background noise, and the Adaptive Noise Reduction excels at identifying and removing changing background sounds, the Sound Remover excels at plucking out foreground sounds while minimizing harm to overlapping content. 

Preview Editor

You may have noticed the split-screen view in the above screenshot.  Audition's Waveform editor now supports a dual-view that can be used for many purposes.  Originally designed to provide a visual confirmation for effects which change the duration or timing of a file (including the Pitch Bender effect, which will be discussed below) we found it provides excellent visual feedback for almost all effect operations, allowing you to see and hear your changes before you commit.  In addition, it can be used to edit or compare arbitrary regions of a single file, or the lower view can always zoom to a selection so you can better maintain your place in the upper view.  Very powerful, though I suspect everyone may find their own way to use it.

64-bit Performance

Audition is now a fully 64-bit application on both OS X and Windows providing improved memory handling, performance, and support for the latest generation of OS, hardware, and plug-ins.  The use of jBridge, a 32-64 bit bridge for VST effects, enables you to continue using your favorite legacy effects while taking advantage of new technology and plug-ins.

Editable Favorites / Favorites Panel

Access your recorded favorites from a dockable or floating panel now, and modify them as needed. 

New and updated Sound Design effects and tools

Among the returning and updated effects are Pitch Bender, Scientific Filter, Pitch Shifter (real-time, automatable pitch correction and adjustment) and the Stereo Expander.  Generate Noise is back with additional noise profiles, and both Noise and Tones can now be generated directly in Multitrack view.

Enhanced Spectral Frequency Selections

Multiple spectral selections can now be made with the Lasso and Paintbrush tools, adding to or removing from the selection mask, and enabling complex, detailed selections.

Multitrack Enhancements

Look for a lot of visual and navigation improvements, most based directly on user requests.  Track Colors with Smart Clip Colors make it easy to visually group and identify your content or quickly assess where you are in the Mixer from across the room.  Quickly silence umms, ahhs, or offensive words without splitting clips or manually creating and adjusting keyframes.  When dragging multiple clips into a session, easily switch between placing the clips consecutively on a single track, or stacked on multiple tracks, and see more intelligent use of existing, empty tracks.  Also, the full clip duration and content is displayed when dragging into a session, and crossfades are automatically created when dropped on top of another clip.  Easily select all clips on a track with a double-click, or select all clips forward or backward from the playhead. New commands for jumping between markers while ignoring other elements, adjusting the view without moving the playhead or selections, and quick keyboard overrides to zoom into the playhead or the cursor at your command.

Frequency Band Splitter

This useful tool, popular among remixers, was always hidden within Multitrack in older versions of Audition, and was rather confusing for many users.  We've redesigned this tool to be more intuitive and visual.  Easily split a file into new files by frequency range.

All sorts of other features!

Export directly to your SoundCloud account, match device sample rate to your documents, set default names for new markers, see detailed data about the audio under your cursor, improved sync and silence recognition with the Automatic Speech Alignment tool.  WMA and WASAPI driver support on Windows.  iTunes metadata support.  AAC and the complete Apple AudioToolbox support on Mac OS X.

The hard sell!

Our marketing and sales teams would be disappointed if I didn't include a brief sales pitch at the end.  Fortunately, it's a great deal and a big discount if you're someone who likes saving a bit of money.

The release date has not been announced, but there is a great way to get yourself to the front of the line. If you join Adobe Creative Cloud now, you will immediately receive the entire stable of currently shipping Adobe CS6 applications AND you will automatically receive the new versions of Audition and all your other favorite Adobe applications as soon as they are available. From April 4 through 19, 2013, we’re offering our NAB Show Special giving you 40% off Creative Cloud for your first year – that’s only $29.99/month It’s an amazing way to keep your production costs really low and your tools up-to-date all the time.

Learn More
Discover more about what’s coming to the next versions of the Adobe pro video tools at: adobe.com/go/nab_reveal.

Hi,

I'm having a bizarre issue using my Wacom Intuos 4 tablet with Audition CS6. When I drag a clip around with my pen in a multitrack project, if I drag too slowly, the cursor keeps moving but the clip stops moving altogether. If I speed up, it immediately jumps to wherever the cursor is once it's moving fast enough. It's making precise editing kinda difficult.

I've had this problem on a couple of different computers. It isn't happening in Audition CS5.5 (still installed), or if I use a mouse in CS6. I've updated both Audition and the Wacom drivers.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

I recently purchased a new Dell Studio XPS 8100 running Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium.

I purchased Adobe Audition 3.0 and upgraded to 3.01.

Extract audio from CD does work at all -- it does not even open a window to choose a track.

If I try to use the open command, I see the tracks but it says file type .cda is not supported.

(All of the above work perfectly with my old XP computer.)

I know my new hardware is working well because I can extract a CD track to a .wav file using
Windows Media Player.  I can then opoen the .wav file in Audition and edit it.

What kind of dirty tricks is Microsoft Win 7 plalying on me?

Has anyone else had this problem?

Are there any patches to Audition or the OS to fix the problem?

It's a good scheme to back up your Audition 2.0 (or 3.0) workspaces and  preferences from time to time even if things are running well. To do so  is quite simple.

1. Close Audition

2. Go to C:\Documents and settings\{yourusername}\Application Data\Adobe\Audition

3.  You should see a folder named 2.0 (or 3.0) - make a copy of the whole folder  and its contents and call it "My last 2.0" [or 3.0, or whatever] using normal  Windows procedures.

If you then want to reset your preferences to  the "factory install" state, delete the original "2.0" or "3.0" folder. When you  restart Audition, it will be re-created automatically, and in its default  state. But doing so will erase your own preferences and workspaces, so  do not do that unless you have a backup first - or even two.

In  the future, if you've had a problem you may need selectively to restore  (copy) the files or folders from "My last 2.0 (or 3.0)" into "2.0 (or 3.0)", as they  contain important setups and customisations which you'll probably want  to have back. Here's a list of some of them:-

DefaultWorkspaces  [folder] - contains the "factory" workspaces. Audition expects to find  the contents there under the original names, but if you want you can  replace them with defaults of your own devising, using the same names -  but under normal circumstances, leave them alone.

OriginalUserWorkspaces  [folder] - these are in essence backups of the workspaces you have  saved yourself. If (using the program's relevant option) you restore a  workspace after having amended it, Audition will use the the version of  the workspace in this folder.

UserWorkspaces [folder] - these are  the current versions of workspaces you have created yourself. If you  restore a workspace after having amended it, Audition will replace the  amended workspace in this folder with the original one from the  OriginalUserWorkspaces folder.

AudCust.ini

- Favourites definitions

AUDITION.INI

- Edit view mastering rack definitions

- "Extract from CD" definitions

AudMP3.ini

- Definitions of mp3 encoding settings

audition_settings.xml

- general settings and preferences - this contains a lot of handy stuff

effect_settings.xml

- effect settings

When you encounter a problem with Audition, the following steps are often useful for getting past the problem and/or determining the cause of the problem:

1.  Hold down SHIFT while you launch Audition

     This overrides the preference files and launches Audition using the default settings.

2.  Manually rename or delete the preferences folder

     Step 1 only overrides certain preference files, while others such as Workspace preference files, may be the cause of the problem.  Depending on your OS, locate the "5.0" folder in the location below and rename it or delete it.

     Windows XP: C:\Document and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Adobe\Audition\5.0\

     Windows Vista/7: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Audition\5.0\ *

     Mac OS X: ~\Library\Preferences\Adobe\Audition\5.0\ **

          * "AppData" may be a hidden folder.  You can type it into the location bar, or enable "Show Hidden Files" in Windows.

          ** This is your user-level Library folder, not the system-level tree.

3. Check your Audition Log.txt file

     To enable a log file with CS 5.5, you must create an empty file in your preferences folder called "Audition Log.txt" using notepad, text edit, or any other editor.  After you create this file, launch Audition and if it fails, open and/or share the log file for more specific information about what's happening.

4. Check the Operating System console or error log

     Both OS X and Windows can track application errors, and if the problem is occurring outside of the application code - a driver conflict, for example - then the OS error report may be more informative than what we can get from the application.

     OS X: launch /Applications/Utilities/Console.app   Clear the view, then launch Audition and note any error messages that appear.

     Windows: launch Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer > Windows Logs > Application then launch Audition and note any error messages that appear.

5. Re-install Audition

     If at this point, nothing has resolved the issue or the error logs are inconclusive, it's a good time to uninstall Audition, reboot, and reinstall Audition.

6. Obtain the full crash dump and send it to the Adobe team

     So you've walked through all the above steps, you've disconnected any external hardware interfaces to rule out any device or driver conflicts, and you've exhausted the basic troubleshooting steps.  Visit http://forums.adobe.com/thread/900619 and follow the steps for your OS that Charles has documented to best obtain a full crash memory dump for Audition, and send that to audbugs@adobe.com with a description of the problem and the steps you've taken, and we'll take a look. 

I'm currently trying to record my first song with CS6. I used Cool edit before and people have told me that AA's way better.

However I have many questoins regarding recording effects. Here are my questions.

1. How to use Auto-tune in CS6?

2. How to lower the pitch of one instrumental without changing much of its quality?  I'd like to lower the pitch, record my voice, then increase the pitch of my voice to where the instrumental was originally. (I am trying to remix a song with Chris Brown on the hook so it is killing me)

3. What is the normal procedure of improving the vocal effects after recording? Like some kind of effect that makes your voice sound professional. (I usually make rap songs and sing sometimes, so what are the effects we should use?)

Pardon me if my questions are too simple. English is not my 1st language and I don't really understand all the terminologies in CS6.

Thanks guys.

I have purchased Audioengine 2  powered desktop speakers and an Audioengine S8 powered subwoofer to use for editing audio files with Audition CS6. While these sound great, I would like to find software and/or hardware to calibrate these with Audition. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I recently bought a online introduction course to Auditon CS6 on Vimeo.com

While I have a setup where I put the lecture on one screen and the program on the other I like to follow tutorials and learn how to use software.

However this proves to be impossible for me in Audition, because for some reason my computer gets completely unresponsive after a little while of watching the lectures with Audition running.

It never happens when Audition hasn't been launched, and I'm kind of suspecting a driver conflict, but I don't have a fancy audio card in my computer, (just built in Realtek,) and find it a bit

odd that it wouldn't be supported as it is some of the most common audio setups around. As far as I know the system runs stable with Audition running and no Flash content started as well.

This has happened for the last couple of months and I've updated Flash and drivers as they roll out. Audition CS6 is downloaded with the Creative Cloud application Manager.

Here is some general info on my computer:

OS: Windows 8 Pro 64 bit.

Motherboard: eVGA x58 Classified (Tried with stock BIOS and also updated to new BIOS)

Audio Card: Realtek (on motherboard)

Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTX 560 Ti

The system storage device is a SSD (Firmware recently updated due to BSODs apearing, and seems to be resolved.)

I do believe that this might not be a Audition issue, but rather a issue with Flash. However Audition + Flash reproduces this problem faster than anything else I can remember this happening while

using other 3rd party software while playing Flash. (Not exactly the type of software.) I have a suspicion that it is something that occurs if Flash and other programs is paging/wiring/reading the SSD...

I can't remember this happening with Photoshop or other Adobe software, and so I'm also curious to how different Audition runs "under the hood" so to speak. What is it constantly checking

that could lead to a hardware conflict.

Overall my impression of CS6 is much more positive than CS5.5. I'm seeing features restored from 3.0 that are great to see back again. I'm also enjoying some of the new functionality. But some key features of AA3.0 are still missing, which I used often.

1. Generate Silence. This is useful in the waveform editor in many cases. It's great we can generate tones, but silence is the blank canvas that is needed.

2. Sample editing by dragging individual samples. Perhaps this exists, but I couldn't figure out how to do it.

3. Generate noise (pink, white). Fundamental in audio. We need this.

4. Spectral Phase Display. Please bring this back from AA3.0. Incredibly useful, and much more powerful than the very rudimentary phase display in CS6. I use this often in AA3.0.

5. Spectral Pan Display. Was not used by me as often as Spectral Phase Display, but still useful to have.

6. Hovering or left-clicking at the top or bottom of a stereo waveform selects or plays only the Left or only the Right channel. This is much easier in realtime to compare left/right channels than using the buttons at the right to deselect channels.

And, new things not related to AA3.0:

1. Ability to use Normalize in effects rack. This is one of the most common effects I would use for working with certain audio files.

2. 64-bit support in Windows 7. CS6 appears to be a 32-bit application. If so, will a 64-bit version be available?

There are new things I'm enjoying about CS6. So overall this is a great effort coming from CS5.5. But AA3.0 remains installed on my PC. Please restore the other features above from AA3.0.

I just got a new computer at home loaded with Windows 7.  I downloaded Audition 3 earlier this week and I am having trouble figuring out how to record audio from the internet (say a youtube video) into Audition.  Keep in mind, this is a home computer.  I don't have a  mixing board set up here at the house.  Any advice? 

Could this be an "unfixable problem?"  I have heard that Windows 7 makes this kind of recording virtually impossible in order to avoid copyright infringement.