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TheTrackBallGuy
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December 5, 2018
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Native file format for Audition?

  • December 5, 2018
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I've been using Audition for a few months now and I just went to save something and noticed, as far as I could tell, that there isn't a native file format for Audition when you go to save. My use of the program was pretty light and my college was making us use oh what was it, Reaper, which I couldn't ever really get a grasp of. Anyway,  any reason why this was done, do the other formats work fine on there own, is Audition not as good as I think it is, or am I missing something else?

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    Correct answer ryclark

    Or are you asking what file format is native to Audition for audio files? Audition works natively with 32bit floating point .wav files at a selection of standard sample rates. Any audio opened into Audition, whatever it's original audio file format, is opened as such. This makes Audition virtually lossless (apart form any edit process changes that you might make) as far as storing audio files is concerned. Normally whilst going through the processes of editing you would save and maintain your audio files as 32bit float .wav files. It is only at the final distribution stage that you might choose to save the audio as a different format.

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    SuiteSpot
    SuiteSpot
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    December 5, 2018

    Not really sure what your question is?

    Depending on the version of Audition you are using will depend on what the format is for Audition's session file.

    Audition 2 and prior had a binary format (.ses), version 3 had both the binary (.ses) and the xml format (.xml)

    Post Audition 3 had the xml format .sesx

    As to "is Audition not as good as I think it is" I have no idea how good you think it is but many here not only use it professionally but use it in preference to all others - so I guess many think it is pretty good.

      ryclark
      ryclarkCorrect answer
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      December 5, 2018

      Or are you asking what file format is native to Audition for audio files? Audition works natively with 32bit floating point .wav files at a selection of standard sample rates. Any audio opened into Audition, whatever it's original audio file format, is opened as such. This makes Audition virtually lossless (apart form any edit process changes that you might make) as far as storing audio files is concerned. Normally whilst going through the processes of editing you would save and maintain your audio files as 32bit float .wav files. It is only at the final distribution stage that you might choose to save the audio as a different format.

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