Adobe Audition CS6

Question

Here are few questions that I can't figure out with this program.
 
1. Under Effects on the tool bar on the top, it shows silence, but it is grayed out, so I can't access it. So how do I turn it on?  I like to create 10 seconds of silence when I am looking to break out different sections of audio.
 
2. When editing an audio file, the window shows the mp3 in green, and the red cursor shows where you are at in the audio.  But when the red cursor goes off the screen to the right, it doesn't keep going to right as long as there is audio, it starts over in the left side of the window, along with the remaining audio. How can I set it up so that the red cursor and the audio just keep moving to the right?
 
3.  Where do I locate my serial number in the program.  Adobe Audtion asked for it, and I don't know where to find it?
 
Thanks,
Dean Huibregtse
dhuibreg@gmail.com

SteveG_AudioMasters_ · Answer

1) Silence is an effect - therefore you cannot generate it using that command. If you highlighted a section of your audio and selected silence, it would silence the highlighted section - in just the same way that any other effect would work on it. The easiest way to create silence is to use Generate>Tones and set the volume to zero and the duration to whatever you want. It doesn't matter about the actual tone settings if you do that - you can leave them as they are.

2) You can alter the way the cursor and scrolling works in Preferences>Playback and Recording. Also please note that it is not an MP3 file you are editing, but a wav file - Audition decodes the MP3 to this format, which is the only format it can use. There are implications to this for MP3 files; if you resave your file as an MP3 this means that it's been decoded and re-encoded again. If it's a 'normal' MP3 you may well notice quality loss, as these processes are what's known as 'lossy', and if you do this enough times it will sound dreadful!

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