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Charles VW
Charles VW
Inspiring
May 3, 2011
Question

Adobe Audition CS5.5 is now Available for Purchase (Ignore - this is very old)

  • May 3, 2011
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http://www.adobe.com/products/audition.html

 

Attention all you existing Audition users, Mac Public Beta users, and other early adopters: I encourage everyone to download the 30 day trial of Audition CS5.5 and/or purchase it.

 

As always, we appreciate your feedback (positive and negative), and as you can see on the forums, we are listening.

 

If you're simply reporting a bug, please use the form here:

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

 

If you're making a request for a new feature, or an improvement on an existing feature, also use the form here:

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

 

If you're simply alerting us that there was something in a previous version that isn't in this version, please see this:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/895/cpsid_89588.html

 

Also, feel free to search in the forum as we may have already addressed the question for another user.

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Anonymous
May 4, 2011

Likes:

  • New windows/arrangements
  • Realtime efx rack and preview in edit view
  • Adds some efx (vox enhancers)
  • Freq analysis in multitrack.  Still dislike the lack of phase analysis window, despite addition of phase meter.

Dislikes:

  • New phase meter, or lack of a phase analysis window
  • Lack of color control (can only control wave foreground, background, waveform selection, and CTI.  At least overall brightness is still adjustable
  • Lack of multi-track insert function in multitrack view.  Can only insert one audio track at a time?
  • Lack of flexible toolbar control (groups,
  • Missing some efx (scientific eq filter)
  • Lack of customization of all windows (transport controls showing on selection/view window whether you want them there or not)
  • Lack of CD burning function.  I didn't use it much in AA3 because it was still inferior and hoped Adobe would actually improve on it.  No luck.
  • Workspaces don't save correctly when switching between edit and multitrack view (mixer window from mt view appears in edit view, though the mixer isn't used.  Recalling saved edit view workspace doesn't work).
  • Won't open AA3 .ses files.  New file is .sesx

Lastly, am I missing something or are there really no MIDI tracks in multitrack view anymore?

Overall probably not worth the $99 upgrade price I paid.

Charles VW
Charles VWAuthor
Inspiring
May 4, 2011

permanentrecordstudios wrote:

  1. Lack of customization of all windows (transport controls showing on selection/view window whether you want them there or not)
  2. Workspaces don't save correctly when switching between edit and multitrack view (mixer window from mt view appears in edit view, though the mixer isn't used.  Recalling saved edit view workspace doesn't work).
  3. Won't open AA3 .ses files.  New file is .sesx
  4. Lastly, am I missing something or are there really no MIDI tracks in multitrack view anymore?
  1. You can turn off teh transport controls in the Editor Panel
  2. The app is no longer totally modal between edit view and multitrack view.  All the panels are there or not for each workspace.
  3. Look at SES2SESX mentioned on dozens of threads in this forum
  4. They're gone.
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    Anonymous
    May 6, 2011

    Thanks for the help on 1 (windows users Edit -> Show Editor Panel Controls).

    In regards to ses2sesx I have read the other forums and it was more of a rhetorical statement.  Full functionality of ses2sesx is $20, AA CS5.5 isn't worth the $99 I paid already.  Shelling out another $20 for the "convenience" of using AA CS5.5 just isn't worth it.

    Sadly I operate a music recording studio and rely on MIDI for machine control and MIDI recording.  Sonar, Cubase, Acid Pro, Logic, Pro Tools, and others do offer MIDI.  Audition CS5.5 renders itself completely useless to me in my studio setup.  I abandoned Cakewalk and Pro Tools over eight years after discovering Cool Edit and it's increased functionality over the others.  Audition CS5.5 has completely lost that competitive edge, and is now lagging behind most other DAW's.

    Plus after reading about and discovering the lack of save as options (yeah yeah yeah, Adobe is gonna make it all better in the future blah blah blah), I'm sorry but AA CS5.5 is honestly a joke.

    I only say all this as a devoted, but now sad user.  Your upgrades to this point have been spot on.  AA CS5.5 fails as a true music studio DAW.

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    Lolemu449
    Participant
    May 3, 2011

    I'm a little new to Adobe Audition, that is I'm using the trial version until my full version comes in, and I'm having problems figuring out how to add a suround-sound /professional-sound to my mixes when I try to mix vocals to a karaoke track. That and, when i try to turn up the volume of a certain track, the quality gets distorted/cracky. I'd love some help

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    Alan_Craven
    Participating Frequently
    May 3, 2011

    First very quick thoughts on the trial:

    1.  The download needs a warning that it proceeds to install itself staight after the download ends; there did not seem to be any option to save the file.  I downloaded it onto a non-editing machine and felt I had better let it install, even though I did not want the trial on that system.  I am not sure how to install it on a non-internet connected system?

    2.  The program opens very quickly.

    3.  You still cannot import the audio from an .mpeg video file.

    4.  No scientific filters.

    5.  It took me a while to spot how to preview Noise Reduction.

    6.  I like having the waveform view above the spectral view.

    Despite (6), (3) means that I shall stick; sorry.  Perhaps next time?

    _durin_
    Community Manager
    _durin_Community Manager
    Community Manager
    May 3, 2011

    Alan,

    What sort of mpeg file are you failing to open and read the audio stream?  Do you have Quicktime installed on this system?

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    Alan_Craven
    Participating Frequently
    May 3, 2011

    A 1440x1080 50i, mpeg-2 transport stream file shot on a Sony V1 and captured using Premiere CS5.

    Yes, I have Quicktime (V7.6.2).  Gspot regards its MIME Type as video/mp2t.

    I should add that "Edit in Audition" works from within Premiere, as with CS3, but this extracts only the portion of the clip that I have on the timeline.  I want to import the audio of the complete clip into Audition.  This works fine with a 1440x1080 .AVI, but no joy with .mpeg files - just as it was with CS3.

    Message was edited by: Alan Craven

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