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April 12, 2012
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CS6 Production Premium revealed. Audition CS6 Details.

  • April 12, 2012
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Good news, everyone!

I'm very excited to share the news that Production Premium CS6 will be revealed at NAB next week, but even better, I get to share details about Audition CS6 with everyone right away.  More detailed information about some of the new features will be released on the Audition Inside Sound blog this week, but I'l be happy to discuss specifics about the new features on this message thread.

Here's a quick list of the new features and functionality:

Audition CS6 Highlights:

  • Real-time and rendered clip stretching in multi-track - including new “varispeed” mode
  • Clip Grouping – Including suspend, trimming, & stretching of groups
  • VST3 support (Mac and Win) and more effects
  • New pitch correction/manipulation tools
  • Automatic speech alignment tool
  • Red Book Audio CD burning
  • Hardware controllers support - Including native Avid EUCON and Mackie MCU support
  • Write/Touch/Latch automation modes
  • Media browser with file preview
  • Session Templates and Enhancements
  • Expanded file format support (Native, libsndfile, DLMS)

Audition CS6 Complete List of New Features:

Multitrack

  • Session templates
  • Automatic speech alignment
  • Clip grouping
    • Suspend mode
    • Focus clip actions
    • Trim/fade grouped clips
    • Time aligned stretching of groups
  • Clip spotting – Manual entry of clip start or end time
  • Clip stretching - Real-time and rendered mode using iZotope Radius
  • Vari-speed clip stretching
  • Metronome Track
  • Skip selection play mode
  • Save all open files with session preference
  • Select all clips from playhead to end of track
  • Sum to mono per track
  • Bounce selected track
  • Reveal clip in files panel
  • Trim to selection
  • Send clip to back
  • Preference to play/hide overlapped clips
  • Mixer enhancements
  • Snap volume and pan envelopes at 0dB
  • Drag and drop file marker range to multitrack (as clip)

Waveform (Editor)

  • Multiple clipboards
  • Skip selection play mode
  • Open append
  • Subclip marker support (Premiere and Prelude)
  • Improvements to spectral spot Healing (Limit selection to x- or y- axis)
  • Pitch display

Effects

  • VST3
  • Side Chain support
  • Improved plug-in scanning engine
  • New channel map per effect – Control over effect input and output channel routing
  • Save and apply Effect Racks as a favorite
  • New/Added effects:
    • Automatic Pitch Correction
    • Manual Pitch Correction with new spectral pitch view mode
    • Generate Tones
    • Doppler Shifter
    • Notch Filter
    • Graphic Phase Shifter
    • Gain / Fade Envelopes

General

  • Media Browser
  • Preview in Media Browser and files panel
  • Search/filter in Media Browser and files panel
  • Display markers for all files in markers panel
  • Access and open order fields in files panel (sorting)
  • Keyboard shortcuts (shortcut editor enhancements, copy to clipboard)
  • Adobe Graphics Manager Implementation to improve UI drawing
  • DLMS Integration to support additional video and audio file format import/open
  • OpenGL display for video including improved video display for improved performance
  • New spectral display preferences
  • Support for additional framerates (23.976, 59.94 ndf/df)
  • Machine-specific device preferences (optional common audio hardware settings for all users)
  • Import most preferences from CS5.5
  • Pinch-to-zoom, rotate to scrub Mac touchpad support (Mac only)
  • Improved properties panel UI layout

Broadcast Specific

  • ITU Loudness – Normalize files (batch) to ITU-BS.1770-2 (R128), view loudness level diagnostics
  • Native MPEG1-Layer 2 audio (MP2) import and export
  • Enhanced CART timer and metadata support

Control Surface/Automation

  • Mackie MCU, native Avid EUCON, other controller support
  • Recordable track automation (Full Write, Touch, Latch support with undo)

Format support

  • MPEG4, HD Video, and additional audio import (via DLMS)
  • Native MPEG1-Layer2 (MP2) audio import and export
  • Native APE, FLAC, OGG export and import
  • libsndfile export – export most formats supported by libsndfile
  • CD Import metadata support (via FreeDB)
  • Enhanced RAW format support

Output

  • Red Book CD Burning (via CD layout)
  • Quick burn single-file, CD-TEXT)
  • Advanced mixdown – Mixdown tracks, busses and/or master as seperate files
  • Save All Audio As batch process
  • Save Copies of Associated Files – Collect/archive all files in a session
  • Save open file references in session (“remember” all open files with the session)
  • Advanced session export – Including ability to convert sample rate of session and associated files
  • Preferred asset importer saved with session files

edited to include additional features.

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    _durin_
    Community Manager
    _durin_Community ManagerAuthor
    Community Manager
    May 7, 2012

    Hi everyone!

    Adobe has gone live with all of the CS6 applications, including Audition!  Grab the 30-day trial from http://adobe.ly/IrXfBa and dig into it.  There has already been a great response over twitter since launch, but I'd love to get feedback from our forum crew as well.  Feature Comparison matrix is available at http://www.adobe.com/products/audition/buying-guide-version-comparison .html

    Thanks!

    Durin

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    drjee2012
    Participant
    April 23, 2012

    Hi,

    reading through the list of added features I suppose the following is still missing:

    • find beats
    • beat, CD track, CD index, and BWF-J markers
    • rejoining split clips
    • loop recording of multiple punch-in takes
    • video thumbnails in multitrack sessions

    or am I wrong?

    _durin_
    Community Manager
    _durin_Community ManagerAuthor
    Community Manager
    April 17, 2012

    New post on the blog about the enhancements and changes to Audition CS6 effects workflow:

    http://blogs.adobe.com/insidesound/2012/04/adobe-audition-cs6-effects-vst3-side-chains-and-more.html

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    Eric S 1
    Participating Frequently
    April 17, 2012

    It is welcome news that the developers have worked to clean up the VST sorting.  I have plug-ins that would not work in CS5.5 because of their perceived channel count but worked in all other versions of Audition. 

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    Admiral_Cook
    Known Participant
    April 16, 2012

    Thanks for your answers, Durin and Charles.

    I hope you'll update it soon to read/write WMAs like version 3.

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    Admiral_Cook
    Known Participant
    April 15, 2012

    WMA read/write supported on CS6?

    _durin_
    Community Manager
    _durin_Community ManagerAuthor
    Community Manager
    April 15, 2012

    Admiral Cook,

    WMA import is supported on all platforms.  WMA export is unsupported at this time, though Creative Suite users can write native Windows Media formats with Adobe Media Encoder.  Proper WMA support remains in our feature backlog and will be prioritized as planning begins.

    Charles VW
    Charles VW
    Inspiring
    April 15, 2012

    re: WMA

    (follow-up to what Durin mentioned)

    On mac, you'll need Flip4Mac just like in Au CS5.5.  On Windows, import of WMA is supported without third-party components, but you'll need to turn on DLMS in the Preferences panel.

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    Anonymous
    April 14, 2012

    As I posted over at Audio Masters, this looks great -- and thx so much for advising it will still run on XP,

    since we run AA on multiple systems and all are currently XP SP3.  Do keep us posted as to when

    we can get it and cost for the upgrade from CS5.5 - will def. do that

    The template feature also seems it will get a lot of use at our studios.  For a long time, we have done sort of the

    same thing via several workarounds to make various often-used templates (sort-of-templates at least)

    with default assignments, busses and  sometimes plugs loaded  (UA, Izotope, Waves, "AA native" and others)

    and set to often used starting settings.  We also use many diff workspace templates all the time for

    various tasks.

    Recall and repeatability are big things  for a lot  of what we do. It's very often essential with many

    projects to be able to go back - even years later -- and get everything back exactly

    as it was to then add or re-version something to/from those sessions/projects.

    Sometimes clients want to add new material or make changes even inside bits of existing stuff.

    And thx for putting back stems exporting (sep files) - a key feature for us - also for Colin's explanation (at Audio

    Masters) of enhancements to it -- ditto grouping and several others we really missed in 5.5.

    One other  thought for possible inclusion later.:

    A split and append feature for SESX files, so that you can split a long m/track project into two

    (or more) sub-projects (as sometimes dense projects grow even denser as they progress!)

    You would designate a split point on the timeline and  AA would ask you to provide a new name for

    each resulting "sub project".

    Everything to left of split point becomes new project 1 and everything to right new project 2, and

    perhaps the command provides default names which user can override and enter their own pref.

    And then an append feature would simply let you append another SESX project to an existing

    one at the end of the existing SESX, or perhaps again at a point on the timeline you select, and

    in that case it would insert the other project you specify into the project you are appending it to.

    With some of the more recent projects we've been doing using only CS5.5 being more than

    4 hours long, this feature would come in quite handy.

    A very old hardware/software system we still sometimes use for making CD masters provides that feature and

    we've often made good use if it.

    Hoping too that maybe we'll be again able to use the Frontier Alphatrack with the new version,

    though maybe that will  need some work by the Frontier Design Group folks first.

    I don't think Alphatrack is fully Mackie protocol compliant, but I'm not sure. It does work pretty well

    with AA3- though some features are not implemented.  (their AA2 files on their website for

    Alphatrack work with AA3)  www.frontierdesign.com

    Frontier's answer on unimplemented stuff was always that because Audition did not expose those

    parameters to ext control,  they couldn't implement them at their end -- but since

    the architecture changed greatly when AA moved to CS5.5 perhaps that's no longer the

    case. 

    Maybe the Adobe folks could dialog with the Frontier people on that to see what they need?

    Anyhow, bravo on this and will look fwd to being able to use the new stuff when it becomes

    available -- and to having the old stuff back too.

    N
    nahravka
    Participating Frequently
    April 15, 2012

    Is there 64-bit version ?

    Is it possible to hide TABS (to make my small monitor BIGGER) ?

    thanx


    SteveG_AudioMasters_
    Community Expert
    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
    Community Expert
    April 15, 2012

    nahravka wrote:

    Is there 64-bit version ?

    Is it possible to hide TABS (to make my small monitor BIGGER) ?



    No 64-bit version this time. No you can't hide tabs either - that would be pointless! A new monitor will cost you less than Audition will these days...

    _durin_
    Community Manager
    _durin_Community ManagerAuthor
    Community Manager
    April 13, 2012

    I've put together a short video showing off the new Session Templates feature in Audition CS6.  If everyone finds these useful, I'll put together some more and bump up the production values a bit.

    I should note that the green interface tint is a byproduct of the screen capture utility I'm using.  Audition CS6 is still every shade of glorious gray.

      SuiteSpot
      SuiteSpot
      Inspiring
      April 14, 2012

      I have been hoping for session templates since before I could spell the word!

      This is going to save so much time especially when I have a full band in doing bed tracks for an album and I have set up a a complex headphone mix for the first track - no more dodgy workarounds - woo hoo!.

      Well done guys!

      Lighthope
      Lighthope
      Known Participant
      April 13, 2012

      Hmm...this is going to be something that I am going to have to look very hard it.  I've held on to 2.0 for so long because each upgrade (with the notable exception of 5.5) was only a small upgrade not worthy of the price.

      This one however definately has possibilties.

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      Anonymous
      April 13, 2012

      Okay, now that i've picked myself off the floor after seeing what was put back in and all of the new goodies.  All I can say to durin and crew.  Job well done!!!!

      Cheers

      _durin_
      Community Manager
      _durin_Community ManagerAuthor
      Community Manager
      April 13, 2012

      New blog post up about the return and enhancement of CD Burning in Audition CS 6 at http://blogs.adobe.com/insidesound/2012/04/audio-cd-burning-in-adobe-audition-cs6.html

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