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Adobe Audition
Developer(s)Adobe Inc.
Initial releaseAugust 18, 2003;21 years ago(2003-08-18)
Stable release
2024 (24.4[1]) / May 8, 2024;4 months ago(2024-05-08)
Operating systemWindows 10(64-bit) V22H2 or later
macOS Monterey(version 12) or later[2]
Platformx86-64,ARM64
Available in9 languages
List of languages
*American EnglishUnited States,*British EnglishUnited Kingdom,*Mandarin ChineseChina,*FrenchFrance,*GermanGermany,*ItalianItaly,*JapaneseJapan,*KoreanSouth Korea,*PortuguesePortugal,*SpanishSpain
TypeDigital audio workstation
LicenseTrialware
Websiteadobe/audition

Adobe Auditionis adigital audio workstationdeveloped byAdobe Inc.featuring both amultitrack,non-destructivemix/edit environment and a destructive-approach waveform editing view.

Origins

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Syntrillium Software was founded in the early 1990s by Robert Ellison and David Johnston, both formerMicrosoftemployees.Cool Edit,an audio editing program distributed ascripplewarefor Windows computers, was among Syntrillium's early offerings.[3]By 1999, the program had matured into its final two versions: Cool Edit 2000, for ordinary users, and Cool Edit Pro, for audio editing professionals. Both drew very positive reviews.[4][5]

Cool Edit Prooffered the capability to work with multiple tracks as well as other features. Audio processing, however, was done in a destructive manner. (At the time, few computers had sufficient processor power and memory capacity to perform non-destructive operations in real time.) Cool Edit Pro v2 added support for real-time non-destructive processing, and v2.1 added support forsurround soundmi xing and unlimited simultaneous tracks (up to the limit imposed by the computer hardware). Cool Edit 2000 and Pro also included plugins such asnoise reductionandFFTequalization.

From the beginning, consumer and professional versions of Cool Edit supported numerous import/export codecs for various audio file formats.[6][7]WhenMP3became popular, Cool Edit licensed and integrated the originalFraunhoferMP3 encoder. The software had anSDKand supported codec plugins (FLT filters). The developer community wrote a wide range of import/export format plugins to open and save in a number of audio compression formats. Popular audio formats and containers supported by Cool Edit with built-in codecs or plugins included FraunhoferMP3,LAME MP3,Dolby AC3,DTS,ACMWaveform,PCMwaveform,AIFF,AU,CDA,MPEG-1 Audio,MPEG-2 Audio,AAC,HE-AAC,OggVorbis,FLAC,True Audio,WavPack,QuickTimeMOV and MP4 (import only),ADPCM,RealMedia,WMA Standard,WMA Professional,WMA Losslessand WMA Multichannel.

Adobe purchased Syntrillium's technology assets, including Cool Edit, in May 2003 for $16.5 million,[8]as well as a largelooplibrary called "Loopology." Adobe then renamed Cool Edit Pro to "Adobe Audition" and terminated Cool Edit 2000.[9]

Version

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Version 1

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Adobe Audition was released on August 18, 2003. It had bug fixes but no new features and was essentially a more polished Cool Edit Pro 2.1 under a different name. Adobe then released Audition v1.5 in May 2004; major improvements over v1 includedpitch correction,frequency spaceediting, aCDproject view, basic video editing and integration withAdobe Premiere,as well as several other enhancements.

Version 2

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Adobe Audition 2 was released on January 17, 2006. With this release, Audition (which the music recording industry had once seen as a value-oriented home studio application, although it has long been used for editing by radio stations) entered the professionaldigital audio workstationmarket. The current version included two sections. Multitrack View supported up to 128 digital audio mono or stereo tracks at up to 32-bit resolution. In the track controls section one could select the input and output for each track (the program supported multiple multi-channel sound cards), select "record", "solo", and "mute", and access the effects rack. New features includedAudio Stream Input/Output(ASIO) support, VST (Virtual Studio Technology) support, new mastering tools (many provided byiZotope), and a redesignedUI.Adobe also included Audition 2.0 as part of its Adobe Production Studio bundle.

Version 3

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Adobe Audition 3 was released on November 8, 2007. New features includedVSTi(virtual instrument) support, enhanced spectral editing, a redesigned multi-track interface, new effects, and a collection of royalty-free loops.

CS2 activation servers' shutdown: Adobe Audition 3, with some other CS2 products, was released with an official serial number, due to the technical glitch in Adobe's CS2 activation servers (see Creative Suite 1 & 2).

Version 4 (CS5.5)

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Audition 4, also known as Audition CS5.5, was released on April 11, 2011, as part ofAdobe Creative Suite.Audition 4 was shipped as part of the Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Master Collection and Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium, replacing the discontinuedAdobe Soundbooth.Audition 4 was also made available as a standalone product. Enhanced integration with Adobe Premiere Pro allowed editing of multitrack Premiere projects, and users of third-party software were served by the introduction ofOMF- andXML-based import-export functions. Other new features included improved 5.1 multichannel support, new effects (DeHummer, DeEsser, Speech Volume Leveler, and Surround Reverb), a history panel, faster and fully supported real-time FFT analysis, and a new audio engine (more reliable and faster) for non-ASIO devices.

According to Adobe,[10]Audition CS5.5 was rewritten from the ground up to take advantage of parallel/batch processing for performance and make it a platform-agnostic product. Audition CS5.5 now works on Windows and Mac platforms. Over 15 years of C++ code was analyzed, and many features of the previous Audition 3 were ported or enhanced. Notable features that were present in Audition 3, but removed for CS5.5, includeVSTisupport andMIDIsequencing. Unlike all the previous versions, this is the first release to be available as a Mac version as well as a Windows version. Many other features from previous Windows versions of Adobe Audition, such as FLT filters, DirectX effects, clip grouping, many effects (Dynamic EQ, Stereo Expander, Echo Chamber, Convolution, Scientific filters, etc.) were removed[11]as the product was rewritten to have identical cross-platform features for Windows and macOS. Some of the features were later restored in Audition CS6 but the wide range of audio codec compression/decoding filters for import/export of various audio file formats were discontinued.

Version 5 (CS6)

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Adobe showed asneak previewof Audition CS6[12]in March 2012 highlighting clip grouping and automatic speech alignment (which had its technology previewed[13]in September 2011). Audition CS6 was released on April 23, 2012, as part of both Creative Suite 6 Master Collection and Creative Suite 6 Production Premium. It included faster and more precise editing, real-time clip stretching, automatic speech alignment, EUCON and Mackiecontrol surfacesupport, parameter automation, more powerful pitch correction, HD video playback, new effects, and more features.

Version 6 (CC)

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Adobe Audition 6, also more commonly known as Audition CC, was released on June 17, 2013. It is the first in the Audition line to be part of theAdobe Creative Cloud.Also, Audition CC is now the first 64-bit[14]application in the Audition line. This can provide faster processing time when compared to Audition CS6.[citation needed]New features include sound remover, preview editor, and pitch bender.[15][failed verification]

See also

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References

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  1. ^"Adobe Audition Release Notes".Adobe Inc. May 8, 2024.RetrievedSeptember 15,2024.
  2. ^"Audition System requirements".Adobe Inc.RetrievedSeptember 15,2024.
  3. ^"Cool Edit/Audition release history".homerecording.April 14, 2007.RetrievedNovember 21,2023.
  4. ^"Test Drive: Cool Edit 2000 from Syntrillium Software".RapMag.RetrievedNovember 21,2023.
  5. ^"Adobe Acquires Leading Audio Application and Technology from Syntrillium Software".Adobe.Archivedfrom the original on May 23, 2003.RetrievedNovember 21,2023.
  6. ^"Syntrillium Cool Edit Pro v2".soundonsound.Archivedfrom the original on June 2, 2021.RetrievedFebruary 29,2020.
  7. ^"Combine music, sound recordings, audio files using Audition – Software Review RT".Archivedfrom the original on June 2, 2021.RetrievedMay 27,2021.
  8. ^"United States SEC Form 10-Q, Adobe Systems, Inc., May 30, 2003"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on October 30, 2015.RetrievedAugust 20,2014.
  9. ^"Cool Edit Passes Its 'Audition'".radioworld.April 23, 2004.Archivedfrom the original on October 3, 2022.RetrievedNovember 21,2023.
  10. ^"Audition CS 5.5 and the future of Audition - Adobe Community".forums.adobe.April 14, 2011.Archivedfrom the original on September 13, 2017.RetrievedJune 4,2019.
  11. ^"Adobe Audition CS6 Version Comparison".Archived fromthe originalon May 22, 2021.
  12. ^Adobe."Adobe Technology Sneaks 2012 - Adobe Audition CS6 Sneak Peek on Adobe TV".AdobeTV.Archivedfrom the original on June 5, 2019.RetrievedJune 4,2019.
  13. ^"Adobe MAX 2019 – The Creativity Conference - November 2–6, 2019".Adobe MAX 2019.Archivedfrom the original on August 21, 2023.RetrievedJune 4,2019.
  14. ^Breen, Christopher."Review: Adobe Audition CC a solid upgrade hampered by subscription pricing".Macworld.IDG Consumer & SMB.Archivedfrom the original on July 15, 2013.RetrievedJuly 22,2013.
  15. ^"Adobe Audition CC Features".Adobe.Archivedfrom the original on July 23, 2013.RetrievedJuly 22,2013.
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