Can you make your own music from scratch in Audition cs6?

I know Audition, it is not very user friendly... now Im looking for the easiest way to get into making beats. I'm thinking hip hop or rap because I already have a few ideas in my head. Im not experienced though... What do you recommend at a lower price point that will get me going? Any feedback will be apreciated... I have found this software and I wanna know if it is good to produce rap music beats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpZ67QHW0UE

I've never used Garage Band. But I've tried Cakewalk, Cubase, Reaper and some other and I've got to tell you that Audition built-in effects are REALLY, REALLY GOOD.

imgoingtosleep wrote: I'm thinking of getting the Master collection (Student and Teacher licensing) CS6 for my iMac. I know you can edit sound and music in Audition cs6, but can you create new music from scratch? Kinda like apple garageband? Also, if you can, do you own 100% of the copyright of the original music you make from Adobe Audition?

Taking both previous replies, and then your original questions in order:

Yes there's no MIDI - but I personally don't regard that as unfortunate at all...

As for the loooooping - yes that's quite useful, and there are more resources than just the drums - there's the whole loopology library available, and yes it's licence-free; whatever you create, you own the copyright of, with no restrictions on usage at all.

No, Audition isn't like Garage Band - it's primarily an audio editing suite (hence no MIDI). But if you can actually play instruments, then there's no reason at all that you can't create multitracked music from scratch with it. Personally I don't see why Audition would necessarily be a good choice though - it's not music creation software as such, and doesn't support scores, or any of the other features that mainstream music software does; that's not its reason for existing. If you want a cheaper solution that will address many of the music creation issues (but is a crap editor), then you'd probably be better served looking at something like Reaper. What a lot of users do is to use Reaper to create the tracks in the first place, and then finally sort them out in Audition. This can work out pretty well - you get decent mixing, editing and mastering in Audition, which is what you need to finish the job.

Guitar suite in Audition is pretty cool. Not as big as IK Amplitube but quality of some amps and cabs is very useful. Audition CS6 has some looping ability. And real-time clip stretching is very cool. You can download good drum set (wav format) from Resource Central.

Unfortunatly no MIDI in CS6