- Hello. I Mike Russell from www.musicradiocreative.com.
In this mini series,
I'm covering the Adobe Audition preferences menu.
And today we're going to look at Auto Save
and control Surfaces.
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Now, here we are in Adobe Audition,
and I'm going to open up the preferences menu
by hitting Control+comma.
You can do it with Command+comma on your Mac,
and here are all the settings.
Today, we're zooming right in on Auto Save
and Control Surface. Auto Save is really handy.
It can get you out of a lot trouble.
If you're working on a big project, a big session file,
and suddenly Audition crashes or you have a power cut,
you should always be auto saving.
Well, really, ideally you should always
be saving your multi-track sessions anyway yourself,
but thankfully Audition does it for you.
And there are a few settings here
to make sure things are working.
Usually these are ticked by default,
Auto Save recovery data every 10 minutes.
I find that's fine but if you're the paranoid type,
you can bring it down to every one minute.
Just bear in mind, if you do that,
it's going to be saving in the background every minute,
and that might disrupt you editing your audio.
So you want to find a fine balance,
maybe reduce that down to five minutes and that's enough.
And then you've got the multi-track session
file back up here,
back up multi-track session files automatically.
So when you are working on a big multi-track session here,
you can have it back up automatically.
At the moment, it says every three minutes,
you can increase or decrease that.
The maximum number of backup files should be 10.
Now, if you really want to have a big long list
of everything you've been doing
in the multi-track over time, you might want to say 30.
I mean, you can push this right up to gosh,
there are just so many, you can,
I don't think there's any limit here.
I wonder if there's any limit.
I wonder if I can put, back it up a million times.
Let's go back in and see if that worked.
Auto Save, no, the maximum number of times you can back up
is 10,000 or maybe 99,999, let's see if that works.
Back into Auto Save, no, 10,000.
Okay. I think 10,000 is more than enough for any user.
And then your backup location, creative cloud files,
this'll put it into your creative cloud account,
so into the cloud, into the Adobe cloud
if you're happy with that.
Generally for me, I usually say,
save it within the session folder.
I much prefer that to keep control
of where the content is on my own hard disk,
and then later on decide to put that
into the cloud if I wish,
but that's just a personal preference
and that's your Auto Save preferences,
very easy to understand.
Control Surface is only really something you'll want to use
if you have an external device plugged into your computer
that can control certain features of Adobe Audition
such as Palette Gear.
Palette Gear is fantastic for controlling different things
like volume or fades or edits and stuff.
And you can actually add it here by clicking add,
and then finding the correct device class.
When you install the Palette Gear device drivers,
Palette will appear as an option here.
You've also got all of these,
Mackie is probably the most common,
you've got presonus faderport V1 as well,
which is a popular choice.
So Mackie will interact with a lot of different devices.
Recently, I reviewed the tascam model 12.
It's a multi-track mixer
that also has Control Surface integration
with all the audio editors including Audition,
and all you have to do is select Mackie here and add it.
You can go into the settings as well and add the type.
So here we can get to detail with what it is we're adding.
Actually for me, it's found a MIDI key keyboard
I have plugged in, called the LPK25 from Akai.
I can actually use that as a Control Surface
to perform various functions in Audition,
but if you've never used a Control Surface before,
you don't really need to worry about this,
they can add some functionality like with a tascam model 12,
you can automate volumes on different tracks
in your multi-track over time,
you can mute in solo tracks on automation
from a physical piece of hardware.
And it's all set up here in the Control Surface section
of Adobe Audition by adding the correct device class,
finding your device, adding it,
and then you can start controlling Adobe Audition remotely,
using hardware.
So I hope Auto Save and Control Surface
add a little bit of clarity there.
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