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April 28, 2024

Major issue with Audition - is there a way to make effect edits and track settings undoable?

  • April 28, 2024
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I just started using Adobe Audition after years of Audacity and FL. It's got some powerful features I like but there is a design choice that I just can not wrap my head around and I think it's gonna make me quit this program if I don't find a solution:

 

Why can't I undo edits made in the effects applied to clips or tracks? For example, when I tinker with the EQ or FFT and I end up not liking the edits - there's no way to undo them, Audition does not register those steps as undoable and it starts undoing other stuff while leaving the changes I made as they are. So I have to manually recreate the effect parameters as they were before the changes. 

 

I find this program behavior is stifling my creativity and my naturally experimental approach to editing audio, as I have to very carefully plan around the fact that whatever I do can't be undone. Yes I can duplicate the effect and turn it off while I experiment on the copy, but it's all very cumbersome and doesn't allow for instantaneous undo/redo.

 

Same thing applies to track volume and pan settings.

 

Is there a way to make these edits undoable?

 

Bonus question: what's the logic behind such a design choice? I'm struggling to think of a benefit to this.

1 reply

SteveG_AudioMasters_
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 15, 2026

No trouble undoing effects in the Effects Rack using History, but certainly the inability to undo track eq is strange, almost to the point that I think it might be a bug...

michaelcbell
Participant
February 16, 2026

Maybe I’m not understanding? If I add an effect (say, a compressor), go in and change some settings, and then hit undo, it removes the effect when I would have expected it to undo the last setting change I made. 

SteveG_AudioMasters_
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 16, 2026

I think that it’s always been processing steps that are undoable, not individual setting changes. To move back through settings, you’d need a key and mouse logger, and quite a bit of fast storage - and then you’d still have to tie it up with the rest of the steps.