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Adobe Audition CS5.5 - ReWire?

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April 28, 2011
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Simple question - where ReWire in that new version, are ReWire exist in that new version?

I'm using trial version & can't find ReWire like I'm found it in Audition 3!

Anyway guys, how to ReWire Reason???

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WHAT!?!?

No MIDI (instead of improved MIDI) in the new Audition is kind of 'acceptable'. Because you would be able slave your favourite dedicated MIDI sequencer instead. That way you can create original music and soundscapes using Audition's wave editing capabilities directly and also its Multitracker, with video or not. Audition is the logical hub, and also a great tool for this. Now, with so many features being removed, I must wonder: does Adobe hate musicians? Surely, some high profle posters here doesn't actually argue against that POV. Music?!* Bah.

The new Audition can work with canned loops out of the box only (AFAIK they now even can't auto fit to a session tempo). Elevator music is also music ya know.

Forgetting about contemporary creation of music (and they have!), even soundscapes will be more difficult now. A lot of athmospeheric sounds and sound effects are done with MIDI and VST instruments like Absynth for instance.

A lot of the features of the new Audition looks promising, and I'd like to start using them, but this is too stoopid. Adobe really wants me to start saving up for Nuendo now.

*That is: music created from various wave recordings and treated within one single environment, like Audition, where one would use a mixture of acoustic recordings, treatments and electronic sources. Some will not call this approach "music" - and it appears they've won. Straight acoustic recordings of classical / jazz / folk etc. is of course still(sic!) possible to use in your soundtrack - although for how long ?

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chudasdfsdfas

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forwarding the discussion? you mean beating a dead horse?

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chudasdfsdfas

New Participant

Returning to Audition after a few years and WTF!!!!! NO REWIRE!!! WHAAA? I use TONS of creative suite apps professionally and they have ALL sucked more and more and more with every realease. Not even sucked more, I'm used to apps getting bloated with useless features added but they've been stripped of key features on top of that!!! I can no longer pin code in flash, photoshop 3d animation got worse and worse(hold keyframes dont hold, nothing saves(I know 3d in photoshop is dumb to begin with but it was a simple shape and a tight deadline)), After Effects or premiere cant import the PS animation files anymore(presumably cause the files are total crap now). HOLY F#CK ADOBE!!!?? Now that I actually use licensed versions of your suite its turned to complete crap?? Can you at least put an option in your fancy new CC cloud to install older versions so I can maybe open the 60+ multitrack sessions I have?

Paul_Ferguson

Inspiring

You're complaining of stripped features, but Audition never had Rewire, so it hasn't been stripped of it. As for older versions, you ought to know by now that Adobe doesn't deal in them, but why don't you search up a version of the ses>sesx conversion utility that converts old sessions to new ones? And then disappear.

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Cubed Root Sound

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I think Audition 3 had ReWire. But I agree that chuda's post is not really forwarding the discussion here.

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frankz00

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I know I'm late to this party but I find this thread very interesting. I use Reaper as my DAW and SoundForge for tweaking but I actually own Production Premium versions CS4-CS6. In a pinch I had to use Adobe Audtion 3 and I was very impressed. Then I learned that it was a descendent of CoolEdit Pro which was one of the first sound editors I used way back when.

Anyway, I was considering using Audtion as a mastering deck (for music) and stumbled on this page during my looking into it. I was thinking ReWire was an advantage because I could host my other music software in it. Of course now I see they took away ReWire. That's too bad. I know I can do it other ways but ReWire would have been ideal.

I have to agree with those disappointed. My BIGGEST pet peeve with software upgrades is when features that people are used to in it are taken away. That's why I've learned to wait before upgrading just so I can see what I lost. I guess I'm fortunate in that I bought Production Premium for graphics and video more so than audio but if I had purchased specifically for audio I'd have definitely been an unhappy camper.

It would be nice if the developers went to the users and said "we plan on taking feature X away, what do you think?" That way they would be making an informed decision instead of basing it on whims. I'm on most of my software vendors' mailing lists and I have yet to receive that type of request for feedback from many of them. Native Instruments is the only one that did it once.

ryclark

Participating Frequently

If you read back through the threads you will see that Adobe did not take anything away from Audition. They rewrote to be compatible with Macs as well as PCs and it is just taking a long time to catch up with all the features that were in earlier PC only versions of Audition.

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what_

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Are there any plans to reintroduce rewire in an upcoming version of Audition. I reckon there is an intermediate group of people like myself (between hardcore broadcast and out and out musicians) that are a bit tired of using stock audio/music tracks, and find things like reason / loop enabled audio creation reasonably straighforward, menaing we can create backing tracks fairly easily and cost effectively.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

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what_ wrote:
Are there any plans to reintroduce rewire in an upcoming version of Audition.

Couldn't tell you. Adobe won't announce anything about any developments at all until they're reasonably sure that they can deliver. So if you have seen an announcement anywhere in the Audition Next 'sneak preview' thing that's going on presently because of NAB that says it will be there, then it will be. OTOH if you haven't...

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skusak

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I won't rudely complain, and I'd bet your sick of hearing this topic, but yeah. Rewire.

I'm a hobbyist musician and a home recordist. I don't always get to work in the best conditions. Friends say I should have moved on to a different DAW years ago, but honestly I love Audition. It's so easy to chop up audio and fix lots of things I messed up while recording, or clean up some noise from a noisy mic or cranked preamp, or mix with pleasure and ease.

The 64 bit update looks really exciting. I'm also looking forward to using the new noise tools to weed out my roommates running down the stairs during a good take. (I still love 'em.)

I can't tell you how awesome it would be if I could just add some (midi) drums or piano or hammond or something right in Audition. From reading the above I'm sure I'm not the only one.

I'm just adding my voice to the chorus. I'm sure it's not a main focus for you folks because your bread and butter is video, but you might be able to pick up a few new musician customers to add to the crowd should you restore a feature that would increase the usefulness of Audition to us greatly.

my 2c

Steve

PS: the pitch correction tool in CS6 is fantastic. If I'm a few cents off on a note or two, or wanna tighten up some harmonies, it sounds really natural. This is an example of something you knocked it out of the park on for us guys in my opinion... how about another bone here?

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Anonymous

I love how the importance of Midi and/or Rewire doesn't even register. It's like a joke. There are other, better products out there (including Audition 3). Coming here and reading this forum has been eye opening. What happened to Adobe? Going after a niche market at the expense of the other users who used Audition is like cutting off your nose to spite your face. No thanks.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Adobe Expert

GeorgeFeb wrote:
Simple question - where ReWire in that new version, are ReWire exist in that new version?

No, sorry - no ReWire.

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Anonymous

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WHAT!?!?

No MIDI (instead of improved MIDI) in the new Audition is kind of 'acceptable'. Because you would be able slave your favourite dedicated MIDI sequencer instead. That way you can create original music and soundscapes using Audition's wave editing capabilities directly and also its Multitracker, with video or not. Audition is the logical hub, and also a great tool for this. Now, with so many features being removed, I must wonder: does Adobe hate musicians? Surely, some high profle posters here doesn't actually argue against that POV. Music?!* Bah.

The new Audition can work with canned loops out of the box only (AFAIK they now even can't auto fit to a session tempo). Elevator music is also music ya know.

Forgetting about contemporary creation of music (and they have!), even soundscapes will be more difficult now. A lot of athmospeheric sounds and sound effects are done with MIDI and VST instruments like Absynth for instance.

A lot of the features of the new Audition looks promising, and I'd like to start using them, but this is too stoopid. Adobe really wants me to start saving up for Nuendo now.

*That is: music created from various wave recordings and treated within one single environment, like Audition, where one would use a mixture of acoustic recordings, treatments and electronic sources. Some will not call this approach "music" - and it appears they've won. Straight acoustic recordings of classical / jazz / folk etc. is of course still(sic!) possible to use in your soundtrack - although for how long ?

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Adobe Expert

Brian Stew wrote:
I must wonder: does Adobe hate musicians? Surely, some high profle posters here doesn't actually argue against that POV. Music?!* Bah.
The new Audition can work with canned loops out of the box only (AFAIK they now even can't auto fit to a session tempo). Elevator music is also music ya know.

Around here, the noise that happens in elevators is universally referred to as 'musak' - to differentiate it from anything with any actual musical merit.

But to your main point - well, whilst I have a lot of sympathy for what you are saying, I think that the real emphasis is perhaps a little different. It's a bit like getting a new girlfriend, whilst still trying to stay friends with your old one - not easy. So in this case, the new girlfriend is the CS and its video users, and the audio-only users are the old one.

New girlfriend is a bit flighty, and given to temper tantrums - wants you to throw out all your old clothes and junk, and get a new wardrobe and smartened up. You got on quite well with the old girlfriend, and she actually liked the junk...

But I wouldn't worry too much about it, because everybody knows that however hard she tries, the new girlfriend can't make you stick to her new rules for ever - your real self will come through in the end, and she'll just have to like it or lump it.

Might take a little while, though... and there's no telling whether the old and new girlfriends will get on in the long run either.

Interesting times...

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