I haven't meant to give the impression that CS 5.5 is a preview release. If we felt there was not a significant group that would be able to accomplish their audio tasks with this release, we would have waited for CS 6. For those Audition 3 users who cannot live without pitch correction or clip grouping or control surface support and will only consider an Audition with those features, then the wait for that release will be the same as it would be had we not released CS 5.5. I hope we've been honest and straightforward about this. If not, let me emphasize that Audition CS 5.5 will not have every feature available in Audition 3, and if you find that it does not suit your particular needs, please let us know exactly what is missing that prevents you from upgrading and using it so that we can do our best to make certain these areas are addressed and improved for CS 6. (And I'm not making a judgement on that perspective! Believe me when I say that there was much agony and passionate arguments made for every feature that did not make the cut for this release. There was NO ONE on the team who dismissed any of these tools as unimportant. When it came down to the wire and we needed to decide whether to spend developer time on, say, Clip Grouping vs. CD Extraction, we had to look at everything from development and testing time, ranking in feature surveys and forum/pre-release requests, and whether an alternative, if less elegant, solution existed.) We want to make the best audio editing tool on the market. We want to offer a value for our users that they don't get with other applications, or complement the tools they already use to increase their productivity. Adobe has committed to releases on an 18/12 month cycle, meaning 18 months following an n.0 release, expect an n.5 release, with the next n.0 release 12 months later. CS 5.5 ships mid-May, which puts CS 6 on a tentative release for May 2012. Thanks for the feedback and the encouragement moving forward. I hope you'll still take a look at the trial version and see where it might help improve your productivity or what areas we could focus upon that would make CS 6 a killer release for you. Durin
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