Audition 26.0 freeze

Hi, AU26 is a nightmare, it is costing me hours trying to sort out the problems, repeating the jobs and time with the customer support peole that are helpful and trying but cannot solve that this unreliable release freezes and recreates the files by itself, inserting others into the working file, cutting sections and/or creating a new one repeating a section for 29 minutesh. Or just not playing the sound at all after saving the files. Too many issues, it is costing me lots of working hours and free time, and sleep time, so I decided to uninstall it.

Today, the customer support person, tried but there was no solution. Their marketing department offered me a 7 days discount as good will. I did not ask for it, only to recover or restore my file but offering that discount would not compensate the working time and its monetary value, the lack of sleep, plus having to reschedule interviews and the embarrassement of having to do so. 
Please, only release reliable programmes, you should withdraw Au26.

OMG… Adobe’s developers have HOSED Audition!  For the first time I can remember (and I’ve been using it since it was Syntrillum Cool Edit Pro 1), it’s unstable, crashes, screen won’t refresh.   It’s now complete garbage!   Makes NO SENSE to pay “rental” on a product that DOESN’T WORK!!   Well.. more reason to switch to Audacity.   It’s FREE, AND it WORKS!!   (Adobe.. you’re seriously pissing me off!   You had not business releasing it until you KNEW it functioned properly!)

Just updated to 26 as well.   Audio files no longer open.  26 hangs for 15 to 20 minutes, then seems to crash.   

I HAVE FOUND THE ROOT OF THE ISSUE (for me anyway) sorry for shouting!! I wonder if it is the case for others too.

I use a Midiman Midisport 2X2 midi interface for additional midi inputs.

Removing the driver for this device fixes the issue.

I got suspicious after finding this post:

.https://www.soundonsound.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=96087&p=993840

I wonder if it affects other legacy midi drivers that other users may be using. It also affected my Reaper boot it turns out.

I’m going to have to find a more up to date midi → usb device I guess, as my trusty midisport box is now a brick I guess :(

I have had this issue start happening to me today. It’s rendered Audition completely useless. PC user. 

It fails to boot, getting stuck on “initializing AuUI”

I’ve tried many times now to uninstall, re-install, remove old version, re-try old versions.

Use CCcleaner to nuke everything it can (and then re-install CC, and again uninstall Audition, as it appeared to not have been nuked) I’ve been through AppData folders to remove adobe and audition related files.

I’ve been through the Task Manager to stop adobe and creative cloud processes prior to running the CCcleaner tool.

I am at my wits end, extremely frustrating as it’s on subscription and now completely unuseable.

I sincerely hope Adobe sort this ASAP, otherwise they will lose another customer - been using it since Cool Edit days :’( 

J’ai le même problème. aucune solution à ce jour mais l’abonnement lui est débité ! merci Adaube

For, I think, the first time in nearly 15 years of using Audition without problem, I’m seeing this problem of the “freeze”, running version 26 (latest release), Win 11 25H2, i7 14700 CPU, 32 Gb RAM.

Specifically, I was carrying out my usual editing of a church service recording in Waveform View, removing “gaps”, setting levels (different voices, singers etc.), normalizing to -3dB, using iZotope 11 Advanced (to control overall final level) and RX11 Advanced to remove Mouth Clicks (one of the mics is somewhat sensitive and such noises can be intrusive with certain voices), all actions I have taken for several years without problem.  This proceeded as expected, until I came to apply the Effect Rack and “Save as ...” the resulting file.  The saving process seemed to start normally but stopped at approximately 25%.

Despite waiting at least 10 minutes for the process to resume, nothing happened, the screen went opaque and the only “resolution” was to use Task Manager to close the app.

Any and all subsequent attempts to open it, whether I chose the option to Continue, Delete or Later the “session” which Audition said was not completed previously, stopped at the Initialising AuUI screen (I assume this means the point at which the app was attempting to create the User Interface).

So, I took the “nuclear” option of completely removing Audition (my only CC app) and used the CC App Uninstaller tool to completely remove that core app.

I then downloaded and reinstalled the CC App and Audition, attempted to run AU and the first start-up failed at exactly the same point again (Initialising AuUI).

I checked that the drivers for my RTX4060 GPU were fully updated, no change in AU behaviour!

Because I maintain very regular back-ups of my C:\ drive I could return to an Incremental Back-Up created just before I began work on this particular audio file.  I carried out the restore operation (which returned CC app and AA to what they had been before all the problems started) opened AU without problem and began editing again.  Within a very few minutes (i.e., NOT whilst attempting to save the edited file this time) the app “froze” again (spinning blue circle) and remained in that state for at least 20 minutes (until I once more used Task Manager to force-close it).

Any subsequent attempt to re-open the app caused the same “stop” point as before “Initialising AuUI”.

Any and all advice and suggestions for how to resolve this will be very gratefully received!

Charlie Wilde have you had any luck resolving this yet? I’m in the same boat.

tengo problemas con mi Audition 3.0, no me aparece el reloj para subir y bajar el volumen, que puedo hacer?

Hi. I have the same thing (freezing). Has anyone managed to fix it?