Questions

Hello,I'm mixing some audio for a video, and the music track does not start with its first beat at the start of my session, so if I turn the metronome on, although the timing (104bpm) is correct for my music track, it is out by half a beat or so. Is there a way to offset the start of the metronome, to sync it up with my music track? In other words, I'd like the metronome to start after a delay set by me....eg. half a second. Is this possible?Thanks,Paul

I have marked up a lot of audio ranges from a mp4 clip that I want to export as individual .wav files. But when I click any single range marker (or a selection of them) the option Export Audio of Selected Range Markers is greyed out. I am running this as a Multitrack session, was that wrong of me? 

I'll record some voice and then stop and go back to do a quick edit and about 3 seconds after I play the audio, the mac beachball comes up. I cannot do anything but the audio is still playing back and after a few minutes will finally catch up. A reboot helps a little but it's getting worse. Here's a copy of my log: Log file created: Wed May 1 12:39:56 2024-------------------------------------------Ticks = 1 <16068> <AuLog.Startup> <5> Begin startup sequenceTicks = 157 <16068> <AuLog.Startup> <5> Initializing XML LoaderTicks = 162 <16068> <AuLog.Startup> <5> Initializing Application SettingsTicks = 247 <16068> <AuLog.Startup> <5> Application: AuditionTicks = 247 <16068> <AuLog.Startup> <5> Version: 24.2.0Ticks = 247 <16068> <AuLog.Startup> <5> Build: 83Ticks = 252 <16068> <AuLog.Startup> <5> AuUI initialization sequence started...Ticks = 252 <16068&g

Hi there I would like to record live effects(Binaural Audio) for a music track(not voice record through a microphone) in an audition using the Sennheiser AMBEO orbit plugin. Like I play around and whatever I do(play around), it should record in real-time in the new track. and also is there any other way to modify it later? My primary concern is recording live. I can see automation in Davinci Resolve Studio. But I don't know how I do it in Audition. Help me pls

I have never had this problem before, and to my knowledge nothing has changed in my recording enviroment technically or sound wise. Is this a software problem or user error? How would one go about not having this not show up in every recording? I've restarted ect. & made sure adobe is up to date. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

I have a voice over client that requires a u-law file for use on their phone system and the files that I have recorded will not work with their platform. I have tried recording a typical wav file and converting to u-law and recording a file with the lower sample and bit rate required for the u-law and neither one works. I think I must have a setting issue and I could use some advice. 

I am recording a message for an IVR system using the client's specific settings of 8 bit, mono, 8,000 htz. When I re-open the file after saving it as a ulaw the properties have changed to 16 bit. How do I get it back to 8 bit?

Hey, I'm a first time user, (MacBook Pro, OS Mojave) and this may be an obvious or stupid question, although I have a ton of experience with other Adobe products and I've never seen this happen before. I was listening to music as I opened Audition for the first time, and about halfway through the open process, the song I'm listening to suddenly sounds all canned and lo-fi. I thought, well that's weird, and opened one of the tutorial videos and it sounds awful too. I went back to the music, and it still sounded awful. Then I closed Audition and suddenly, voila! it sounds fine again. I tried a bunch of different combinations and every time, Audition destroys the sound quality of the feed to my earphones. Now, I won't really be able to work on mixing sounds as long as this is a problem. I suspect Audition has taken over my sound settings, but since I'm so new, I don't know how to access that. Can anyone tell me what might be going on?  Thank you!

Last week all of the effects presets that I saved in the Effects Favorites panel inexplicably disappeared. I updated to the current Audition Build 12.1.4.5, but it did not restore any effects. I found another post on here that suggested copying the EffectPresets.xml file from the 11.0 folder and pasting/overwriting the file in the 12.0 folder, but that didn't help. Any suggestions to help me get my presets back? Also, Clip-->Fade In and Out became grayed out and stopped working at the same time that my Effects Favorites disappeared. A related issue?  Please help!

With the latest update of Audition, my Sophos Anti Virus doesn't allow Audition to open Multi track... is anyone else having this issue and what have you done about it?ThanksI've had to roll back two or three versions of update to get it to do Multi Track without triggering the anti virus of the college network.   

I select clips, do export > multitrack mixdown > save.Nothing happensNo file is created. FIle is not opened, obviously. Window closes, nothing happens.Why? How  do I make it work?

Hi,Check out the image attached. I'm opening a file from last year. The tracks around this purple one show the file that should be showing up in my track. It's there and the other files play correctly. I can click on this track and go to source file and it will play, but it's not showing up in the multitrack, and I need that to show up so I can mix it down again. Why would that not show up? I feel like it's a bug, and it kinda stinks because that is the track that I need. DAve 

Has anyone heard of Mike Russell's - The Adobe Audition Presets v3.0?Description and video here...https://musicradiocreative.com/products/adobe-audition-presetsOne of my team is asking to purchase and I just want to make sure it passes the Adobe Community "sniff-test".Thank you! 

Hello,At the time of audio postproduction in the Audition, first I use a parametric equalizer, after that, I go to Amplitude statistics and then press scan. After that, the Average RMS Amplitude value is shown as infinite. Can anyone help me out on this how to get the Average RMS Amplitude value instead of Infinite? Attaching the screen grabs for reference.  

Hi. I tried painting out the singing bugs in Audition (way up high in the red zone) but the actors voices were disappearing also. Anyone have any tips for removing Cicadas from audio? I have learned my lesson never to record around these bugs again! My deadline is nearing... so if someone sees this and can do this successfully for me, I can pay you $50.

This is a question I consistantly ask myself - Why can't I change the default format setting when saving an audio file?The audio delivery system I work with, Wide Orbit requires a that I use a proprietary WAV plug-in. It's a tweaked version of the WAV format.That format works well for Wide Orbit but doesn't play nice with Adobe.Autition defaults to the Wide Orbit WAV format and I can't change the default.If I don't change the format before saving to my hard drive the file either becomes corupted - turns into white noise or becomes a random loop of audio both of which are unrecoverable - or crashes Audition.I have to makes sure I change to the traditional WAV format. At times when you're moving quickly that really bites you in the butt. It's completely devastating.Once upon a time this was a changeable default.(Cool Edit?) Why did Adobe remove a quality of life setting like this?

I'm running a 48k job right now. I have a Mackie 1640i 96k playback device. At the bottom of Audition, on the left, while playing, it says ."Resampling to match your 96k device." When I have glitches I wonder if that's creating a problem. I wouldn't say it always causes glitches but I did have real crackling noise one time. My Windows Control Panel/Sound shows me my Mackie ins and outs and is set to 96k, though there is a dropdown box which allows me to change to 48 or 44.1 (and hoperfully back to 96k again).Would it be better for Audition performance if I changed this from 96 to 48? Does anyone recognize this playback resampling message? Thanks very much.

Whenever I try to export something to premire pro it shows error 16 and I don't know why 

I have recently bought a monthly Adobe Audition trial. However, as soon as I started using the program, I started having problems. For some reason I can’t record anything properly. All the buttons are active, but when I press “record” the red vertical line either doesn’t move at all, or moves fitfully each time for half a second and then stops. The strangest thing is the fact that there are rare random times when I press “record” and everything is recording well for some time, but then the problem returns. I searched the web for the answers, but found nothing. I checked the audio hardware parameters, I let Adobe Audition access in the computer settings, tried both a USB microphone and the laptop’s default audio input, but nothing changed. More to that, other audio editing programs like WavePad work fine, and this problem is only there with Adobe Audition. Notice: when I pressed “record” in Adobe Audition, even OBS didn’t record the sound of me counting from one to ten, e

Hi everybody,I am on Adobe Audition CC 2018 and I have a sound clip with keyframes on the 5.1 surround sound and others associated with that sound.Basically what I want is to move the audio clip with the keyframes (not like this, if I just drag it) :Thanks

This is about AA 23.3 on windows. Does anyone know of any plugin - third party or a preset in AA - that can turn a sniffy voice into a good voice? Similar to the Voice Profiler at Hindenburg, but better? A plugin that analyzes a good recording as a reference and edits other recordings of the same voice, butt snuffy, accordingly?

I just got my X touch one (I don't need a lot of channels, just something that can speed up writing automation) and I have almost everything working as expected in Audition/Premiere Pro.  The one thing I am stuck on is the Read/Write/Latch/Touch functions per channel. Ideally what I would like to do is map the unmapped function buttons on the touch one to these functions so I can easily set the channel I am on to that mode and then start recording my automation. (I would even settle for a hotkey mapping on my normal keyboard, just something faster than me having to use the mouse/drop down menu). I have done a lot of research and can't seem to find a way to do it. Theoretically, it should be possible as the full-sized x touch has dedicated buttons for this that do seem to work. I have also seen online that other control surfaces are able to switch these modes inside Audition "Audio Track Mixer" panel so I know audition supports it in the Mackie/midi protocol as well. It d

Hi i have a file .mp3, for example abc.mp3, i want to convert it to abc.pcm.i open it with audition cc 2018, then save as...format i choose : libsndfileformat setting i try to choose all of them but none show abc.pcm . Why ? anyone can help, thanks

Here's the current scenario: I edit an hour long podcast, and use markers to mark any dead space and sections I will end up clipping out of the show. Once completed, I cut along the markers, then remove the dead space (ripple delete) and unneeded markers. As markers can get upwards of 300-400 or more, this as you can expect is a tedious process of going from marker to marker to cut the clips. Is there a way to select all of the markers at once and cut the clips along all the marker points at the same time? I would love to see if this is possible, as it would literally take a good 30 minutes out of my workflow.

Hello y'all. Since upgrading to MacOsCatalina 10.15.5 I found that I cannot install Audition on my Imac as it says it is not compatible. Anyone knows how to fix this? Thanks!