Adobe Audition Loops/Editing

Report · Oct 23, 2018

Hi, I am new to the forum and Adobe Audition after spending years with Sony Sound Forge and Acid Pro.
With these, i used to record and edit sounds into loops (in Sony Sound Forge) and destructively edit sounds using plug ins etc, then sequence them with Acid Pro.

however these are a little long in the tooth now and it always frustrated me that these were never 'one' DAW.

I have looked at other DAW's but the editing isn't destructive (unlike and editor) like Sound Forge, or possibly Adobe Audition.

So I did just want to ask, whether Adobe Audition was destructive? I always learnt to work this way, so my audio was cleaned up as I went along. Nowadays most DAW's let you clean up at the end, and I have so many files!

Can Adobe Audition also work to tempo and grid with bpm loops? Does Adobe Audition allow you to drag out loops like Acid Pro and change BPM and pitch on the fly a little like Acid and Ableton?
I only ever see videos of Adobe Audition with a free (no grid) in multi-track view?

From all the DAW's that i have looked at, Adobe Audition seems the closest as a destructive precise editor with a multi-track view attached than all the other DAWs that i have looked at, that concentrate on VST's and MIDI.

I just need to use loops and editing, with pitch and bars/beats and BPM based projects.

Thank you for any help and any videos or tutorials showing this would be gratefully appreciated

Report · Oct 23, 2018

mikes619553 wrote
So I did just want to ask, whether Adobe Audition was destructive? I always learnt to work this way, so my audio was cleaned up as I went along. Nowadays most DAW's let you clean up at the end, and I have so many files!
Can Adobe Audition also work to tempo and grid with bpm loops? Does Adobe Audition allow you to drag out loops like Acid Pro and change BPM and pitch on the fly a little like Acid and Ableton?
I only ever see videos of Adobe Audition with a free (no grid) in multi-track view?
From all the DAW's that i have looked at, Adobe Audition seems the closest as a destructive precise editor with a multi-track view attached than all the other DAWs that i have looked at, that concentrate on VST's and MIDI.
I just need to use loops and editing, with pitch and bars/beats and BPM based projects.

Whilst Audition can display time in bars and beats, it isn't very easy working with them. As you've noted, there's no grid in Multitrack mode (which is essentially non-destructive) and whilst Waveform view is destructive, it isn't really intended to be a music editor of the type that Acid, etc are. And if anything, it's drifting further away from that, gradually - it's not what the big users (they're the ones that really count) want.

Yes, you can loop stuff in it, but trying to align things isn't really that easy, because you have to rely on snapping to do it. It's not impossible; just not as easy as software that's designed to do it. Changing BPM on the fly - no it won't. You can do a lot of stuff with pitch, although how well it will do what you want, I really don't know.

What Audition is much better at, and potentially improving with, is working with video and post-production files - it's really not intended to be a music editor as such, unless you are doing the sort of thing I do - which is using it for assembling and editing classical music mostly. This isn't exactly strict-tempo stuff, so Audition's fine.

Download a trial and try it by all means - but I suspect that it's not for you. Have you tried Reaper? That probably does more of what you want, and also it's a lot cheaper...

Report · Oct 23, 2018

Are you also aware that new versions of both Sound Forge Pro and Acid Pro have been fairly recently released by Magix, who now own both of these former Sony products?

However, I think SteveG's suggestion of checking out Reaper is also very good advice.