Is there a how to walkthrough or video for setting up a MIDI controller in Audition 13?

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January 9, 2020
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I recently bought an Arturia Keystep 32-key USB MIDI controller. I am looking for some walkthrough or video instructions on how to add/setup a MIDI controller to Audition. I am quite new to this so simple instructions would be most welcome.

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Anonymous

Update: I have been using Reaper for over 2 years now and I love it. Audition is extremely overpriced for what it is. It appears to be one of the only DAWs that doesn't support MIDI keyboards while being one of the most expensive to subcribe to. I paid $60 one time for Reaper and it is good for two major releases before I have to pay that again. Tiny releases come about every other week yet so far no new major releases have come during the past two years. Also, I own Reaper, unlike Audition that keeps wanting high monthly payments or you lose it. I can see if one has an Adobe Creative Cloud suscription bundle and Audition comes with it then it might make sense for you though you may still require an additional full DAW to fill Audition's missing gaps. For everyone else, Audition just looks like a cash cow for Adobe to get money from their loyal followers.

2 years with Reaper = $60US

2 years with Audition = $21.99US x 24 months = $527.76US

Why on earth would one pay more money for fewer features?

derek273646078qv5

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Jeskola Buzz is a FREE DAW. And it was a collaborative project created by many designers and app/program coders. A ton of people since 2000ish collectively added machines (instruments and effects) to it over the years. They simplified everything to save processing power, so it is efficient and clear and easy to use. A really well-designed program that can do all kinds of things in intuitive ways. And it has always been FREE.

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Thanks, Derek. I just looked Jeskola Buzz up to see what it is all about. I believe it is only really for music. I don't see any video support. Reviews point out that it is quite buggy and crashes a lot. It also doesn't seem to be supported with no new releases in 6 years. It does look like a good option to Audacity in the free DAW world. It is not at all in the same league as Reaper. Reaper is also well known for using very low resources to run and has a fantastic community. If you do go down the Reaper road, make sure you check out the Reaper Mania YouTube channel by Kenny Gioia. His how to videos are legend.

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Anonymous

Sadly after working with Adobe Support, they informed me Audition 13 does not support MIDI controllers. I have received a full refund for my one year subscription and now the hunt continues for full functioning sound design software for video. I will likely next try the much more expensive Avid Pro Tools. Very dissappointing as Audition seemed so much easier to use and Adobe has a very good reputation.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

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Interesting. Here is a screen grab of the contoller protocols that Audition 13 supports. If you have a device that can use these protocols, then you should be able to use it without too much difficulty, although I have no idea whether there's any supporting documentation for them, I'm afraid:

That said, these are only controller protocols. Audition itself doesn't inherently support MIDI, as it's an audio editor, not a music generation program as such.

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Brian5E84

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There's nothing dismissive here at all - there's a simple statement of fact; Audition is not music creation software. Another fact is that all the time that its development is driven by the major corporate users, who couldn't give a stuff about MIDI (in it's original form, a rather outdated protocol now anyway), then music creation is very unlikely to appear in it. And this is despite some of the developers being quite keen on the idea in one form or another. Personally I don't think it's necessary, and that what would be a rather better idea would be to get Rewire to work properly. But there appears to be no real enthusiasm for that idea either. If you look at the bigger picture here, I suspect that the major players in the video world, which is really where Audition is heading, tend to buy in music. And some of their music content creators may have even said to them that they don't want MIDI in Audition, as potentially, they'd lose work because of it.

The hard reality, borne out over many years now, is that individual users are very unlikely indeed to be able to influence the direction that Audition takes, as it won't influence sales. And that's what keeps the developers employed. So not dismissive, just realistic.

This isn't even about music creation. It's about AUDIO creation. I work in radio - RADIO. I still work in radio. I want the ability to take the logical next step in my video graphics by being able to use Audition to create the soundtrack without having to leave the Adobe CS. Using multiple digital inputs from a variety of sources whether midi or not is a feature that Adobe users have wanted for several years now and should be a no brainer. The entire point of using CS was an all-in one suite. Why would I continue using the suite at work either if the company doesn't ever make simple code adjustments users want? Again, whether at Cox Media, Cumulus Media, Townsquare Media or any other of the corporations I have worked at since 1992, we have always had to work around the limitations of audition at some point. Just annoying as hell now that they have multiple threads on the subject in their support forums over a series of years and act like it's not important. Especially since a lot of us aren't at work all the time these days and work at home. Most radio stations aren't even big corporations, they are local small businesses. And to act like their needs are the same at iHeartmedia is just a flawed business model.

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