Hello, welcome to this video dedicated to the newest Adobe Audition CC!
Let's get a general overview on all you need to know to start using it.
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Adobe Audition is a professional and easy-to-use Digital Audio Workstation
product suitable for both beginner and professional audio editors, offering
simple and complete solutions to enhance and adjust your music samples up
to your final audio playlist. Being part of the Creative Cloud suite, you
can get this product just under a subscription plan.
Audition CC opens on its main workspace with the Editor panel on the center,
used to preview and edit your project in progress; and several panels
around, collecting samples, effects and properties. In case any of these is
missing, you can reopen it by going to the Window tab on top.
Audition offers two main versions of its workspace from the top left corner.
Use Waveform to check and edit single audio samples independently and
Multitrack to combine your audio files together, realizing the final output
sound. Let's start with the Waveform workspace.
To import audio files just drag and drop these inside the Editor panel.
Audition supports several audio file formats from the uncompressed .wav to
the most common .mp3 but also videos with sound. It does not support MIDI
files at all.
All these files are listed under the Files tab on the left. Here,
double-click on any file to open it on the Editor, showing each of its
stereo channels with their sound waveforms in green color and also their
frequency spectrum at the bottom, with intensity represented with colors
from violet to yellow per each sound frequency from bottom to top,
represented as notes and octaves on the right.
You can zoom in and out on the Editor by using your mouse wheel. On top the
Navigator represents the section the Editor shows, that can be moved and
extended in time as you like.
At the bottom use the player to playback and pause the current sample. The
time placement is indicated by a red marker that can be moved by clicking
and dragging on the timeline above. By default the timeline measures time
in minutes and seconds, but you can change it in bars and beats by
right-clicking on it and going to Time Display.
To playback part of the sample in loop just click and drag on its waveform
to select any portion in white color and then enable Loop Playback at the
bottom. Whereas use Skip Selection to skip the selected part instead.
In addition you can enable the Record button to record with your microphone
on the sample itself, starting from where the red marker is. Consider that
this overwrites anything present on the sample.
You can also use the L and the R buttons on the right to mute and unmute
either the Left or the Right stereo channels.
At the bottom the Levels panel shows the volume level in deciBels for both
the stereo channels. In case you get any red level and risk distortion, you
can use the volume HUD to reduce and balance the volume on either whole
sample or any selected part if present.
Use CTRL and X, C and V to cut, copy and paste any selected region. If you
make any mistake you can always undo it by using CTRL+Z or the History
window on the left.
Audition collects several audio effects you can apply to your sample from
the Effects Rack window. At first its list is empty, having no effects
applied. To add any effect just click on the right arrow and browse for the
interested effect, adjusting its properties and options. This effect
appears on the list with its name and an I/O button you can use to disable
and enable it. You can also right-click on it to edit its properties and
remove the effect from the list.
On Mix you can shuffle between Wet and Dry to increase or decrease the
volume of the affected sound rather than the original one.
The effects added on the sample are not applied definitely. To render
the effects on the sample, use the Apply button. With Process you can
choose whether to apply the effects on the whole sample or just on any
selected part on the Editor.
When your audio samples are ready, you can use the Multitrack workspace to
put these together and realize your final project called Session.
When you switch to Multitrack, you are asked to create a new Session by
defining name, location, sample rate and bit depth. This Session opens on
the Editor, with Audio Tracks per row and also listed under the Files panel.
At this point just import the samples you need by dragging and dropping
these on any Audio Track in time. When adding videos, a dedicated Video
Reference track is made to welcome video frames that can't be modified
inside Audition.
At the bottom you find the Master Track, which does not collect any sample
but the whole output sound coming from all the Audio Tracks above it.
All the added samples are shown as blocks called clips, with the same color
of the Audio Track that collects these. You can enlarge Tracks by using
your mouse wheel and holding down the ALT key and zoom in and out with the
CTRL key.
Now let's see how to edit clips with the Time Selection Tool enabled.
Click on any clip to select it. Drag it from its top edge to move it in
time on the same Track or in another one.
You can also drag from the lateral edges to stretch in time by cutting part
of the waveform. Whereas if you drag from the white corners you can stretch
and shorten the clip by changing its speed rate, below or above the
original 100%.
In addition you can also pull the yellow and the blue envelope lines on the
clip to adjust its volume and its stereo panning respectively.
You can also drag from the squares on top to add fade transitions and begin
or end the clip by changing its volume gradually in time. This is
automatically created in case you overlap clips within the same Track.
On the left use the Properties panel to adjust other clip properties, such
as pitch or muting.
To cut, copy and paste you can select any part and use CTRL+X, C and V as
seen on the Waveform interface. To split clips into multiple pieces enable
the Razor Tool instead.
On the left side you have several options to manage the content of each
single Track. You can use the M (Mute) and the S (Solo) buttons to mute
the current Track or all the others except the current one. Use the R
button to arm the current Track and record on it when enabling the Record
button below. Adjust the whole Track volume and balance the left and the
right channels with the knobs.
To add effects you can use the Effects Rack, choosing Clip Effects to apply
effects on the selected clip and Track Effects to apply these on the whole
Track selected.
Inside the Multitrack workspace you can open the Mixer panel to manage the
output from all the Tracks, adjusting volume, sources and options.
To save your work in progress go to File and then to Save As.... This saves
the current sample file on the Waveform interface or the whole Session as a
.sesx file if you use the Multitrack workspace.
Whereas to render and export your project go to File, Export, Multitrack
Mixdown and set name, location, file format and sample rate. On Mixdown
Options choose whether to export the Master Track (so the whole Session
sound) or any single Track.
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