How to set Audition CS6 to deselect when clicking "move playhead to previous" button?

Report · Aug 28, 2017

In Cool Edit Pro 2, which I have used until just recently, I could record a sample, and when I stopped recording, that portion was selected. If I wanted to start again from the beginning, I just clicked the "go to beginning or previous cue" button, which looks the same as audition's "move playhead to previous" button, and it would skip back to the beginning and deselect. This is useful because if I messed up, and wanted to start again, I just had to click this button, and i could restart and record for as long as I want. However, Audition CS6 will skip to the beginning, but won't deselect, which means that when I try to record again, I'm limited to only recording within that predefined selection window, and when I get to the end of it the recording will terminate regardless of if I'm done recording. This requires me to type a separate key combo (ctrl-d) to deselect before I can begin to record again. This is frustrating because it seems like a simple functionality and intuitive. How can I set audition to deselect when snapping to the beginning of the recording?

Thanks!

Report · Aug 29, 2017

I don't know that there is any way of doing this in Audition CS6 I'm afraid. For many of us it makes perfect sense to keep ones selection active when editing audio. So that change was welcome.