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HaloEvent
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December 4, 2016
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Does Audition CC have MIDI support?

  • December 4, 2016
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I've been messing around in Audition CC for a while now, creating tracks with sound samples and such, but I want to get into actual music production now and create my own 100% pure content, for that I need MIDI support to actually use my own instruments in Audition. To cut down to the chase, does Audition offer some sort of MIDI support? Yes, I know what MIDI is.

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Correct answer emmrecs

Simple answer: No.

If you search this forum for "MIDI" you will find much discussion about this, including at least one thread in which one of the contributors details how he has apparently been able to use MIDI with AA.

Most of us who need MIDI tend to use it in another app, in my case Reaper, and then import the rendered-to-audio MIDI files to Audition for mixing.

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Newme41
Participating Frequently
June 30, 2020

Adobe Audition is actually the previous software Cool Pro Edit. With cool pro Edit this was possible to insert a Midi file. it was great because you could even control Midi equipment and record this simultaneously as in my case. Yamaha Motif Rack Es; and even control your harmonizer. Unfortunately this has been omitted from Adobe Audition and I therefore had to switch to Cakewalk
Adobe Audition may be a very good software, but it lacks the possibility of really professional studio recordings. Who knows, maybe Adobe Audition will introduce the possibility to read and control midi files again . but i don't think so. unfortunately this software lags behind.

    SteveG_AudioMasters_
    Community Expert
    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
    Community Expert
    June 30, 2020

    That's simply not true, and you haven't even got the previous name correct. The original Cool Edit Pro never had any MIDI facilities, and neither is Audition related in any way, other than the way it looks, to it. It was only Cool Edit Pro 2 that had any MIDI facilities at all, and they were replay only. The code has been rewritten from the ground up several times since Cool Edit Pro, the primary rewrite to make it cross-platform. Audition 3 had primitive MIDI recording facilities added, but because Adobe would forever be playing catch-up, they weren't included in the CS rewrite when everything to do with it was, quite correctly, dropped. The reason that it was quite correct is that the system had only ever been declared to be in a beta state, and Adobe would not, at that stage, allow any beta software to be released in a product, and it was not deemed possible within the release schedule to have 'fixed' it.

     

    Whilst Audition is prefectly capable of making fully professional studio recordings, that's not its primary reason for existing. Primarily it is, and always has been, audio editing software. And as we suspected it would at the time that Adobe bought out Syntrillium, it has been more integrated with the rest of the Adobe offerings, and they are primarily visual - that's really what Adobe specialises in, and not music creation, for which there is already more than enough software.

     

    The original MIDI spec was always something of an anachronism; there would be no point in supporting it now with Audition, as there's a more modern spec available, with halfway decent resolution, which the original never had. The best you could hope for would be Rewire to be reintroduced, although it didn't work very well previously.

     

    And this is an old thread - the issue doesn't need rehashing any more, thank you.

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      ewan71
      Participant
      August 6, 2020

      I produce and teach music professionally and I've been using Audition since V1. Before that I was using Cool Edit 96, CEP, CEP 2.0 and 2.1. Your rather dismissive response to the request for some kind of basic MIDI functionality seems to indicate that Audition is no longer for people like me. Sounds like I should be cancelling my personal subscription to CC and my music school should move to Reaper if the requirements of music professionals are not important to Adobe.

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        gfxwraps
        Participant
        September 7, 2018

        Excuse me for rehashing an old post. I'm working in Audition CC and testing out drum sequencers. Disappointed to find there is still no MIDI support in Audition. Seems like a huge, fundamental necessity in an intermediate-pro DAW these days.

        So, if I want to use Reaper and a sampler like MT Power Drum Kit 2, how are you guys getting your working mix over from Audition into Reaper? I'm planning to render a rough mix WAV and drop that track into Reaper to have something to play along to when creating drum parts. Is there a better way or is that pretty much it? When the drums are complete, do I then render a WAV for each drum track and bring those into Audition as individual tracks?

        Are there any other full featured DAWs that would be an easy transition from Audition? I hate to have to buy something else just because Adobe won't integrate MIDI. What gives? The Reaper workaround is cheap... but that's going to really slow things down.

        Thanks!

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          emmrecs
          Legend
          September 7, 2018

          Tracking in Reaper (for its MIDI support) and mixing down in Audition is something I have done.  I believe a number of other users also work this way.  You will need to render the MIDI tracks to wav in Reaper and then use http://www.aatranslator.com.au/ to "convert" the Reaper session and it audio files to a format that AA can read and use.

          Yes, it is one further piece of software that you will need to buy but a considerable number of posters to this forum can testify to its efficiency in allowing a pretty seamless transition between the two DAWs.

          HTH

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            emmrecsCorrect answer
            Legend
            December 4, 2016

            Simple answer: No.

            If you search this forum for "MIDI" you will find much discussion about this, including at least one thread in which one of the contributors details how he has apparently been able to use MIDI with AA.

            Most of us who need MIDI tend to use it in another app, in my case Reaper, and then import the rendered-to-audio MIDI files to Audition for mixing.

              Bob Howes
              Bob Howes
              Inspiring
              December 4, 2016

              Confirming what emrecs said.  There is no MIDI implementation in Audition CC.

              I work the same way as emrecs except I use Ableton as my MIDI app.

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