Using ExtendScript with Audition.

Hi,

the easiest way to apply effects with custom settings to a Audio File would probably to use a custom Favorite (see Learn to automate common tasks for Adobe Audition CC ).

Once you have your Favorite created, lets say "MyFavorite", the following should work:

- Launch Audition and ESTK.

- Connect ESTK to Audition -> You can see the the "app" object in the Databrowser showing up, which represent the scripting handle to the Audition instance

- Run the following script

var file = new File("path/to/my/file");

var docOpenParam = new DocumentOpenParameter(file.fsName); // Audition specific Open Parameter

app.openDocument(docOpenParam); // Opens the file in Audition

var waveDoc = app.activeDocument; // scripting object to Audio FIle (current active Document)

waveDoc.applyFavorite("MyFavorite"); // Apply the Favorite you created

waveDoc.saveAs("path/to/my/file2"); // Save to new filepath

waveDoc.closeDocument(); // Close the document

Unfortunately, it is not yet supported to insert the Audio Document into a Session using scripting.

Some general information:

- The Audition API is documented in the Objectmodel-Viewer of the ESTK->Help menu (select Audition in the upper left browser section).

- You can execute all available Commands using scripting, which basically means all functionality which is available in the menus and more. The list of commands is available in the Objectmodel-Viewer under Class "Application", Type "Class"

- You can also execute the script above directly in Audition withouth the ESTK if you have the latest Version installed: In the Menu, select File->Browse and Run script... and select the script you created.

I don't know if you've seen it or not, but Adobe does have an Introduction to Scripting, which may help - although it's not Audition-specific. I can't make the direct link to the pdf work correctly, but if you do a search using the term 'Adobe Introduction to Scripting' you will find it easily enough. Also it appears to be available here: ExtendScript Toolkit Archives

More specifically there should be some stuff linked from this page: Adobe Audition SDK for plugin development | Adobe I/O but how much use it will be to you, I don't know. Whether you could really describe any of this as 'straightforward' unless you're a fairly experienced programmer is a little debatable, though...