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Adobe Audition CS5.5 is now Available for Purchase (Ignore - this is very old)

Forum|Forum|14 years ago
May 3, 2011
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http://www.adobe.com/products/audition.html

Attention all you existing Audition users, Mac Public Beta users, and other early adopters: I encourage everyone to download the 30 day trial of Audition CS5.5 and/or purchase it.

As always, we appreciate your feedback (positive and negative), and as you can see on the forums, we are listening.

If you're simply reporting a bug, please use the form here:

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

If you're making a request for a new feature, or an improvement on an existing feature, also use the form here:

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

If you're simply alerting us that there was something in a previous version that isn't in this version, please see this:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/895/cpsid_89588.html

Also, feel free to search in the forum as we may have already addressed the question for another user.

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TANISHAGO

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EXCELENT

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

This post is nine years old and completely out of date now. It does not need replying to at all.

_durin_

Community Manager

I won't bore you with the details of the internal bureaucracy within a big corporate when trying to get a minor, trivial update posted to a website. Allow me to say that our team is still trying to get the differences posted to the Audition product page. I am fully aware how ridiculous it is that a single line of text can't be inserted into a web page after 4 months.

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Cubed Root Sound

Participant

You rock, durin. This must be frustrating for you. I just want you to know I really appreciate your attitude and willingness to be straightforward and helpful.

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Anonymous

Removing support for .wma files is a killer disappointment. Can we expect an update anytime soon? I would love to start using AACS5 but i can't because it doesn't support .wma and my job at the radio station requires working with .wma recordings. Please, when can we expect an update? Im dying to use AACS5 but i can't yet because there is just no support for .wma, what was the reasoning for getting rid of .wma support? Why not keep it.. Heres a thread of disappointed customers who need .wma support for their productions http://forums.adobe.com/thread/844412. Please allow us to download some type of .wma support package along with other missing features so we can start using Adobe Audition CS5 to its real potential. Thanks in advance and i appreciate you guys responding to our feedback! Looking forward to an update!

ryclark

Participating Frequently

whooisodis wrote:
Removing support for .wma files is a killer disappointment. Can we expect an update anytime soon? I would love to start using AACS5 but i can't because it doesn't support .wma and my job at the radio station requires working with .wma recordings. Please, when can we expect an update? Im dying to use AACS5 but i can't yet because there is just no support for .wma, what was the reasoning for getting rid of .wma support? Why not keep it..

Adobe haven't actually got rid of anything. Audition has been rebuilt from the ground up to cater for the Mac as well as Windows PCs. The developers just haven't yet had time in the developement program to re-code every single function available in previous versions of Audition. We are all hoping for further developement of Audition into a fuller CS6 version in the not too distant future.

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KarolVO

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Untill then, I'll difinitely use AA 3 and have already uninstalled 5.5.

Pity though, as it has some very nice speech volume leveler and other

features potentially helpful in my VO work.

I also feel that it isn't quite fair, that Sound Booth users can upgrade to

AA CS 5.5 paying same $99 as AA users who had to pay more for the software

in a first place. This however isn't a problem really...

Anyway, I'm waiting for 6.0 only hoping it will be even greater tool than

3.01

Karol

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KarolVO

Participating Frequently

Hi,

AA serves me very well as a tool in my voice over studio. I guess I use only about 30% of it's features using it for recording, cleaning and basic mastering and synchronizing with video.

First problem: perhaps it is just few clicks away, but I cannot set mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and out - I use it massively and I'm not keen on using +\-

Will be back with more soon

ryclark

Participating Frequently

It should just work in Waveform view if your cursor is over the waveform or the Time bar. In Multitrack it works on the Time bar by default but you have to use Ctrl+Scroll wheel on a track wavform else it just moves you up and down the tracks.

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KarolVO

Participating Frequently

It doesn't work in waveform as it use to in 3.0 by default (even if the cursor is over it). In multitrack it only moves the tracks up and down and when with ALT, it just hightens all tracks...

Generally, I see totally re-written, different editor with little of it's old functionality left. I have been using it since Cool Edit and I thing I'll just stick with AA3 for a while. I hope Adobe will improve it. Now, I still have about 25 trial days left and intend to give it a chance...

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Bob_Sackter

Participant

I don't want to pile on here. I do see many of the upgrades you have put into Au4 and the processing speed is way up over Au 3.01. As stated above, I too am missing the features that were previously available. I do understand the undertaking of the new release, and that the team is working on implementing these for future releases. The one thing I would like to suggest is that there be some consideration in the price of the upgrade for people who have purchased Au4. I have tried very hard to use this version, but constantly find myself going back to 3.01 as many of the effects and tools that I need for my workflow are not in the new version,

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markburgessstl

Participant

just purchased Audition from Adobe's web site. The site says that you can upgrade from Soundbooth CS4 for $99.

However, if you have Soundbooth CS4 as part of the CS 4 suite, you cannot upgrade.

Adobe needs to make this clear on the web site. You can only upgrade to Audition from a standalone version of Soundbooth.

Very misleading and annoying, I have wasted $99 and an hour of my time.

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Anonymous

It'll be much more than just an hour of your time if and when you try to get your money back...

I totally agree though - the pertinent information about this release seems to be hidden far out of sight for anyone just coming to the site to check out the "upgrade". I think this release could have been a pleasant one if Adobe had just made clear the downsides to it, instead of presenting only it's new features and neglecting to notify it's potential buyers about missing features or upgrade issues like yours.

What ever happened to authenticity and transparency? Marketing needn't be misleading. But I, too, felt mislead by this one. If the product is only useful for certain users, it's Adobe's responsibility to advise those that don't fit within that small user base that this product is not for them and to make clear why it's not for them. Anything else is selling ice cubes to Eskimos.

Paul_Ferguson

Inspiring

Inity Arts & Music wrote:
I think this release could have been a pleasant one if Adobe had just made clear the downsides to it, instead of presenting only it's new features and neglecting to notify it's potential buyers about missing features or upgrade issues like yours.

I hear your complaint and see where it's coming from, but I don't think it valid, particularly. There are no 'missing features' in 5.5. It is what it is. And if you're familiar with Version 3.0 and comparing the two programs, then you're not arriving at Audition new and uninformed - if you have AA3 and upgraded to 5.5 without reading the detailed and clear description of the new program and its development that Durin gave here, followed by the forum discussion of same, then you haven't done due diligence, have you? If you buy a program without informing yourself about what that program can do, you've got no one but yourself to blame. But you can complain about all that later on, of course.

But yes, one thing that would have made the process easier for me and you and anybody considering buying the new program would have been a feature comparison chart on the Adobe page advertising 5.5.

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Alivalhur

Participant

I do not understand why but the price of AA4 in France is about 576 $ (417 €) that is 65% higher that the US price.

I try to purchase in the US shop (349 $) but no way.

Why this difference ?

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Anonymous

I was excited to hear a new version was released and $99 for the upgrade is affordable for me. However, no grouped clips in multitrack is a deal breaker.

I produce a podcast and always have 3, sometimes 5, channels to keep lined up (one for each host). It was bad enough that in AA3 we couldn't adjust the edges of grouped clips without all clips in the group adjusting (I still use AA2 for editing due to that). On a typical 1.5hrs show's session I may have anywhere from 100-300 clips that MUST stay lined out. But now, no grouped clips? Does anybody at Adobe actually produce multitrack podcasts? If they do, perhaps they should have been on the Audition team.

Very disappointed.

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junh1024

Participant

Voxengo Transgainer is a multichannel plugin, but I cannot use it on stereo tracks because it appears as an exclusively 7.1 channel plugin under the VST menu plugins, thus i cannot use it on stereo or 5.1 tracks. It worked fine in Audition 3 on 2 channels.

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junh1024

Participant

So, I tried the demo, and one of my VSTs is being recognized as a 7.1ch plugin, (should be a stereo one), and hence I can't use it. How do I fix this? (Voxengo Transgainer)

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

junh1024 wrote:
So, I tried the demo, and one of my VSTs is being recognized as a 7.1ch plugin, (should be a stereo one), and hence I can't use it. How do I fix this? (Voxengo Transgainer)

I stongly suggest that you find out a bit more about Transgainer than you presently appear to know - it is very definitely a multichannel plugin!

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