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Good news, everyone!
I'm very excited to share the news that Production Premium CS6 will be revealed at NAB next week, but even better, I get to share details about Audition CS6 with everyone right away. More detailed information about some of the new features will be released on the Audition Inside Sound blog this week, but I'l be happy to discuss specifics about the new features on this message thread.
Here's a quick list of the new features and functionality:
edited to include additional features.
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And to add to Durin's post, you can get some initial screen snippets (although not complete and we'll be posting more details on Inside Sound blog in the future) here: http://success.adobe.com/assets/en/downloads/guides/AU_CS6_WN_Reveal.pdf
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Sounds dream like. Will MIDI be also supported so we can use midi controllers for more comfortable mixing?
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Mannymac wrote:
Sounds dream like. Will MIDI be also supported so we can use midi controllers for more comfortable mixing?
Are you referring to control surfaces/hardware like Mackie, FaderPort, and the like (flying faders, transport control, etc)? If so, then yes, some of those controllers piggy back on the MIDI protocol for interfacing and control. We support the same controllers Audition 3 had (which was largely Mackie MCU protocol based and used by many 3rd party controllers). We have also added native Avid EUCON protocol in order to support the Avid Artist series controllers (aka Euphonix).
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I think its been said before but maybe not in capitals - WOW!
Manual pitch correction, groups, metronome and a few other things would have done me but this looks like you guys have been flat out!
Heaps more there than I could have even hoped for - really looking forward to getting hold of this.
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Me too. This raises the game. On or ahead of predicted schedule too. Bring it on!
Hey, does this mean a new version of the translator? 🙂
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There is obviously a lot of totally new stuff that isn't relevant to conversion but looking at the list there is probably a couple of things we can add like (and I'm guessing here) group clips, notch filter fx, clip stretch and maybe more.
I thought I saw what looked like a metronome icon (similar to the one in Reaper) in the sneak peak video but I didn't see it mentioned in Colin's list.
Will know more once I get my hands on a copy.
Either way we will have something out as fast as possible.
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Metronome isn't on Durin's list but it's there on the detailed pages in the link Colin put up in the second post of this thread..."Metronome Page 7".
So...YAY!
I wish I was going to be at NAB this year....and hope we can download the trial as soon as the announcement is made there.
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Yes, Mea Culpa... metronome is in Audition CS6! We'll give some more info on it on the blog, but basically it's now track based, routable and quite handy.
Bob Howes wrote:
Metronome isn't on Durin's list but it's there on the detailed pages in the link Colin put up in the second post of this thread..."Metronome Page 7".
So...YAY!
I wish I was going to be at NAB this year....and hope we can download the trial as soon as the announcement is made there.
Colin
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I'm going to NAB for the first time - maybe they have Adobe show bags with trial versions in it - LOL
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The main list has been updated to reflect the missed items, and I reserve the right to continue updating it with other features we might have overlooked when posting!
The metronome in CS6 is really nice. It's a unique track that can be treated like any audio track. You can edit the pattern, route the output through sends and buses, record automation for cases where you might only want a lead-in, run effects on it if that floats your boat. You can even include it in your mixdown if you wish.
I'll be adding some posts today and tomorrow showing off some of the new stuff. Feel free to make requests so I don't have to make the hard decisions about what to share first.
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Awesome! But what about midi track like it was in Audition 3? Where you can insert or edit notes. Is it back?
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MIDI Sequencing and VSTi support is not available in Audition CS6. There was a lot of primary feature development this cycle, and I would not have wanted to make the compromises to a MIDI environment that would have been necessary to squeeze it in this cycle.
MIDI composition support remains in our feature backlog and is considered for each release, but there are several reasons it doesn't typically bubble up higher in priority. Audition and Cool Edit always shined as audio editing tools, and this has always been the focus of the team with MIDI support sort of an afterthought, but never our core competency. With Audition 3, we built a basic MIDI Sequencer with VSTi support, but ran into some implementation speed bumps when plugging it into the existing playback engine that resulted in a less-than-great experience in my opinion. It functioned, but I've never felt it held up to the other areas of Audition in terms of usability and simplicity.
I know there are those on the team - myself included - that would love to develop a full MIDI environment, and while it's never been a highly-demanded feature, I know plenty of users would like a basic composition workflow in Audition as well. If we tackle this, I would hope we can take the time and resources to design a very competent interface that you enjoy using, and not just build something as a check mark on a feature list. We can start a separate thread on this, perhaps in the Feature Request forum, and discuss in detail what sort of functionality and tools you would like to see in Audition to support MIDI and virtual instruments.
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_durin_ wrote:
MIDI composition support remains in our feature backlog...
And long may it do so!
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I'll be waiting... And what about ReWire?
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_durin_ wrote:
If we tackle this, I would hope we can take the time and resources to design a very competent interface that you enjoy using, and not just build something as a check mark on a feature list.
Meanwhile it would be only logical to have ReWire in CS6 to use other software.
Othere major audio software like ACID Pro, Logic, Cubase, Sonar, ProTools have ReWire.
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But they are all Music Sequencers rather than pure audio editors, except perhaps for PT which is ?
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Great job, very nice to see the new features and the "old" ones finally restored!
What I don't see here is "Rejoining split clips" and the possibility to open the previous ".ses" files. Considering there's a "nearly" in the list of the new features, will there be something else near to what I mentioned above? It would be amazing
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vadrum wrote:
Considering there's a "nearly" in the list of the new features, will there be something else near to what I mentioned above? It would be amazing
Ah, this list Durin gives is pretty much complete, I wrote "nearly" in my type up just in case I accidentally missed something small. We fixed/tweaked quite a few very small things (to some these will really matter for their workflow). The bulk of it is listed above or on the blog, especially the large features. For example, as I'm typing this I just realized a small change that i need to add to the blog post list, which is "restricting the X or Y movement of the mouse in spectral using a modifier key when performing a selection", small change but for anyone doing lots of restoration work, it makes linear selections far easier.
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You just won me over. The question is if I buy Audition CS 5.5 now do I get CS 6 upgrade free? or should I just wait?
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ReWire support has also not been implemented for Audition CS at this time.
Adobe has historically always offered a free upgrade grace period when you purchase the current version close to the announcement (or in this case, the reveal) of the next release. If you purchase Audition CS 5.5 now, you'll be eligible for a free upgrade to CS6 when released. I believe this only applies to purchases made directly from Adobe (via the adobe.com online store or telephone sales) and will provide you with the downloadable installer for CS6 when released.
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Here's some additional information on the upgrade policy now that we have revealed the product (this link is diectly from the Adobe Store):
http://store.adobe.com/store/en_us/popup/offer/cs55_cs6.html
Thanks,
--Ron
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Thanks for that, Ron!
To save others having to read some very fine print...what Ron linked to says that those with Audition CS5.5 will, for a special one-time offer, get a FREE upgrade to CS6.
The next person to say Adobe haven't listened to customers on this forum deserves to be jumped on! That sound very fair to me.
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Bob,
I believe the free upgrade Ron posted only applies to items purchased between March 26 and May 6, 2012. Full pricing and upgrade details have yet to be released.
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Ooops! Well, I SAID it was very small print!
I really must see about new glasses....