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for When the Adobe Audition 4

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October 19, 2008
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hi is there any information about AA4, for when and the new fonctionnalities ?

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emmrecs

Legend

Don't really want to "extend" this topic but thought the doubters about Adobe's intentions might like to read this post on the Adobe blogs from Lawson Hancock, who is the Audition Product Manager (I think) http://blogs.adobe.com/insidesound/2008/02/audition_3_on_a_mac_1.html#comment-2151035

Although this is a "discussion" on AA for the Mac if you scroll to the (currently) penultimate entry (by Lawson) you'll read quite clearly Adobe's intent re a "new version".

Jeff

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

Yeah, it's amazing - the entirety of noisy Mac users who want Audition on their beloved machines all on one thread! I bet they meet once a year in a telephone kiosk...

You'll also notice if you go through the whole thing that just one person actually told the truth about the 'Mac is wonderful, Windows is sh*t' situation.

But as to the main point, it's like I said before - if Adobe aren't going to continue to develop Audition, they'll tell you.

SuiteSpot

Inspiring

Maybe Adobe's waiting for them to get 2 mouse buttons?

Bob Howes

Inspiring

I'm always a bit bemused by people who suffer so badly from "new-version-itis" anyway. I buy Audition to record, edit and mix sound. The version I have is doing that okay just now and, although Adobe often find some nice whiz-bangs to add on, the basics are there for me. Indeed, most of the basics were there several versions back in a smaller, slightly more reliable and less resource hungry package.

I'll probably buy a new version when it comes out--but with as much trepidation as anticipation. I use Audition to earn money (to augment my retirement income) so "solid and familiar" are more important to me than "new and flashy" if it involves a learning curve.

If there's something genuine you need your audio work station to do that Audition can't, by all means move to something else--IF you can find something better. MIDI aside (and for MIDI I would be working with something else), I can't think of any competitor that isn't "out of the frying pan and into the fire".

Bob

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

Bob Howes wrote:

I can't think of any competitor that isn't "out of the frying pan and into the fire".

I can think of a couple - but I'd describe them as jumping out of the frying pan staight into my bank balance, and digging huge great holes in it...

Bob Howes

Inspiring

I can think of one or two myself...but have the same problem with bank balance. To me "competitor" has to imply a similar (or maybe even "not more the double") price range.

Bob

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_Troy_MacDonald_

Participant

"Adobe bought the editor, did one small update, integrated its technique to Adobes Dreamweaver, and Homesite was history"

And where did Macromedia come into this? Your story doesnt really add up

SuiteSpot

Inspiring

If something isn't making money chances are it gets dropped.

I wouldn't know if they are making money out of AA but even if it gets dropped it won't be for a long time and that doesn't mean all AAs stop working.

But enough of this negative talk....

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

And anyway, Adobe didn't just buy Cool Edit, they bought Syntrillium, lock stock and barrel - including employees if they wanted to relocate. And a lot of them did... and are still an important part of the Audition development team.

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Anonymous

It can't happen the same way as Adobe have in effect completely re-written Audition since those long-ago Cool Edit days.

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_Richard_Haider_

Participant

Once there was a shareware HTML-editor called "Homesite".

Adobe bought the editor, did one small update, integrated its technique to Adobes Dreamweaver, and Homesite was history.

I'm afraid the same will happen with Audition (Cool Edit).

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Anonymous

{Sgrìobh Richard)
Once there was a shareware HTML-editor called "Homesite".

Adobe bought the editor, did one small update, integrated its technique to Adobes Dreamweaver, and Homesite was history.

No, I'm pretty sure Homesite's features were integrated into Adobe's GoLive. At least, that was the upgrade path Adobe offered at the time. And that was a fair while before Adobe acquired Macromedia, and refocused its web offerings on Dreamweaver.

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Anonymous

Why can't Adobe at the very least say either "yes, we're working on an upgrade to AA3, but that's all we can say" or "no, we will no longer be upgrading Audition"...and at least then we'll know whether to keep waiting, or move on....

Harry

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Matt_Stegner

Adobe Employee

What, specifically, is your work flow that needs Audition to be 64 bit (to address more than 4 gigs of RAM)?

-Matt Stegner

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jdmack01

Inspiring

>>What, specifically, is your work flow that needs Audition to be 64 bit (to address more than 4 gigs of RAM)?>>

I didn't ask the question originally, but I have my own answer for this.

I am a quadraphonic hobbyist. Other such hobbyists have developed scripts for Adobe Audition that will convert quadraphonic recordings from the 1970s into the constituent 4 channels, which can then be converted to home theater formats. This involves using the center channel extractor and other processor intensive effects. It takes several hours on most computers for the complete script to run on an album. I would *love* to see all four of my processors chugging away in the task manager when running these scripts, cutting that time down significantly.

That said, I'm not in a huge rush for AA 4.0. It will come when it comes.

J. D.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

jdmack01 wrote:
I would *love* to see all four of my processors chugging away in the task manager when running these scripts, cutting that time down significantly.

I don't think you would - because at that point your computer's OS would stop functioning!

The RAM issue doesn't have any direct bearing on how many processors are running - that's not it at all. Audition isn't actually a particularly heavy user of RAM; it's video software that tends to eat this up. And I'm pretty sure that this is where Matt is coming from; what's the real need for being able to address RAM that the processors won't use anyway? The processes that really benefit from multiple-processor operation are FFT-based ones, which only really get efficient when the processing load is shared, but even they don't use huge amounts of RAM either.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

>When can i expect adobe audition 4.0?????

You already seem to be... but read previous reply.

>why adobe is taking such a gap in this case?

Because the same team also develops SoundBooth. As a result, the period between releases of both programs is inevitably extended.

>is they discontinued or gonna discontinue adobe audition?

One day, yes. But there is no indication yet of when this will be. A necessary precursor will be a complete lack of sales for new versions, but I'm not aware that this has happened yet.

>why there is no 64 bit release in adobe audition?

See above.

>why audition don't support more than 4 gb ram????

This is a 32-bit OS limitation.

And, you are going to have to be patient, I'm afraid...

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tomrrt

Participating Frequently

Was just wondering if there was anything in the forums about possible Audition 4 version. Soundbooth is just a limited version of Audition as far as I can figure, just coded to run on Apple machines. When they get Soundbooth up to the same level will Audition/Soundbooth become, essentially, one product? Although I also work on a MacBook Pro, Soundbooth held no interest for me because it didn't do much compared to everything I already have. I was working a lot with Audition but have now moved on to Logic Pro (MBP) and Sonar (PC) and Melodyne Studio (both) as Audition appeared to have reached it's end of life point. Too bad, used it from before Adobe bought the company... still use it on occasion. Not that anyone will be reading this but thought I'd write anyway.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

tomrrt wrote:
Not that anyone will be reading this but thought I'd write anyway.

Oh, people do read these threads... and the answer I gave in the second post of this thread still stands.

I was working a lot with Audition but have now moved on to Logic Pro (MBP) and Sonar (PC) and Melodyne Studio (both) as Audition appeared to have reached it's end of life point.

So how do you define its 'end life point'? Since you can't possibly know what the developers may or may not have in mind, and there have also been loads of suggestions made to them since AA3.0 was released, I don't think that you can justify a comment like that as anything other than a wind-up - just like everybody else who trys the same thing...

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_rajamalik_

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When can i expect adobe audition 4.0?????

why adobe is taking such a gap in this case?

is they discontinued or gonna discontinue adobe audition?

why there is no 64 bit release in adobe audition?

why audition don't support more than 4 gb ram????

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