How to automatically change Audition's default output?

[jpibanezsierra]

If this question has already been answered or discussed: sorry. I only found topics regarding errors on this.

I just want Audition, and hopefully Premiere Pro and After Effects, to automatically change the default audio output so I can work with my earphones or with my external speakers every time I plug them into my Mac, just like Final Cut Pro X does.

Is this possible? I'm running the latest version of all Creative Suite apps to the day of this post, and I still have to manually go to the Preferences every time.

Thanks in advance.

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

No, I'm afraid you have to do this manually.

[ryclark]

Possibly the way around this is to buy an external USB audio interface rather than using the onboard sound card of the Mac. A decent one will provide outputs both for your external speakers and also separate earphones/headphones. It will remain connected all the time so that Audition and other Adobe software won't need to keep swapping around the default output and you won't be always plugging and unplugging connectors. Also it would, undoubtedly, produce much better audio quality than the onboard sound IMHO.

[jpibanezsierra]

Thank you Steve and RyClark.

Too bad it has to be this way. It adds unnecessary extra steps to anyone using a laptop and trying to work remotely, since there's a constant change of environments and you may want to constantly plug or unplug your earphones. This would be a great addition to Adobe's UX.

[ryclark]

There is nothing that Audition can do to prevent this problem I'm afraid as it is down to your computer's hardware and it's operating system not Adobe.

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

juanp_ibanez  wrote

I just want Audition, and hopefully Premiere Pro and After Effects, to automatically change the default audio output so I can work with my earphones or with my external speakers every time I plug them into my Mac, just like Final Cut Pro X does.

If you can do this with Final Cut Pro X, then I must say that I'm wondering what's different. I can't experiment with this because I don't have a Mac, but my understanding is that whatever you use, it has to use the same aggregate driver. If FCP has found a way to ignore hardware change messages, then I suppose that it would work...

On this PC you can actually do what you want at present - use either an external speaker or headphones without having to change anything, but only since the OS got updated, and I installed a new sound driver. And it doesn't do it on all available drive models. However you look at it, as ryclark says, it's down to the OS and how it forces the handling of active socket sensing.