Request: Support for VSTi Instruments and MIDI Editing in Adobe Audition

[Sergio34869447gvxi]

Hello, Adobe team.

I’d like to request the addition of support for virtual instruments (VSTi) and MIDI editing inside Adobe Audition. This feature would allow users to compose and produce music without having to switch to another DAW like Ableton, FL Studio, or Studio One.

Audition is already a strong audio editing and mixing tool, but it falls short for users who want to compose music creatively in the same environment. Adding a piano roll, MIDI sequencer, and compatibility with VST instruments would be a huge step toward making Audition a fully integrated creative production platform.

Thank you for considering this improvement. Many Creative Cloud users would truly appreciate it.

Sincerely,
Sergio Rodríguez
Adobe Creative Cloud

[Rag and Bone]

This is a long standing request. I'm not privy to any of Adobe's plans, but if I were to bet, I'd bet against this happening.

You can upvote the idea  here.

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

Rag and Bone is correct about the history of this request, of course, but it might be worth pointing out what the physical realities of this actually are. Audition is essentially a piece of what you might call 'commercial' software; if you add together all of the private users of it, they don't amount to the equivalent of even one large user's number of seats, which, I can tell you, run into the millions. And there are several of those. So when it comes to calling the shots on what gets developed, guess who gets asked what they'd be prepared to pay for? (Here's a clue; not us)

So you might say - what's the point of having an ideas section? It is actually important, because it gives the developers some clues about potential developments they might put to these large users (ie, the ones paying the salary bills). They will have been asked about MIDI several times now, and I think that there's a certain amount of politics involved in the answer and this includes comments from a lot of commercial musicians as well, and they don't appear to want it. They think that if MIDI is included in the suite, it will encourage corporate end-users to create their own music for products, and not use them.

I don't know how true this is, but it's there. Big users are likely to go for developments that will aid their productivity, and I don't think they see MIDI in this at all, even though some of the additional uses might actually help them. I've always thought that as a compromise, Rewire ought to have been bought back but that doesn't look very likely now either.