Product Description

Record, mix, edit, and master digital audio files with powerful tools that bring flexibility and control to your desktop studio. Easily create music, produce radio spots, and restore imperfect recordings. Bring audio and video together using smart integration with Adobe video applications. Get professional results in real time with Adobe Audition 2.0 software. Adobe Audition 2.0 gives you Professional Audio mixing results in real time. Record, mix, edit, and master Digital audio files with powerful tools that bring flexibility and control to your Desktop studio. Easily create music, produce radio spots, and restore imperfect recordings. Bring audio and Video together using smart integration with Adobe video applications.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3746 in Software
• Brand: Adobe
• Model: 22011152
• Released on: 2006-01-20
• Platform: Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 4.00 pounds

Features

• Surround Encoder turns any track into 5.1 surround sound
• More than 50 audio effects and DSP tools including echo, flange, reverb and more -- with DSP processing, mastering and analysis features
• Reduce or boost the vocals or instrumental portions of a track for creating a cappella or karaoke tracks
• Work with 3rd-party hardware and software systems that use the BroadCast Wave time stamp field
• Group RMS normalization - COnvert multiple audio files to the same overall loudness

From the Manufacturer
Record, mix, edit, and master digital audio files with powerful tools that bring flexibility and control to your desktop studio. Easily create music, produce radio spots, and restore imperfect recordings. Bring audio and video together using smart integration with Adobe video applications. Get professional results in real time with Adobe Audition 2.0 software--the all-in-one toolset for professional audio production for music, radio, and video.

Record and mix

Low-latency mixing with unlimited tracks
Enjoy rapid response as you record and mix with a new, powerful low-latency mixing engine.

ASIO, VST, DirectX, and ReWire support
Easily integrate Adobe Audition 2.0 into your workflow, thanks to broad support for industry formats and standards, including ASIO, VST, DirectX, and ReWire.

More than 50 audio effects and DSP tools
Work with more than 50 real-time audio effects including echo, flange, reverb, and more. Manipulate recordings with digital signal processing (DSP) tools, mastering and analysis tools, and audio restoration features.

Recordable parameter automation with external hardware support
Move volume, pan, and effects controls as you listen, and record changes to your mix in real time. Use external hardware controllers to make changes, which appear as editable envelopes in the timeline.

Surround Encoder
Use the Surround Encoder to transform any multitrack mix into a 5.1 surround sound experience. Export the results as an interleaved file that can be used in Adobe Premiere Pro software.

Create and arrange

Complete audio toolset
Record, mix, arrange, and edit your audio in one comprehensive, easy-to-use application. Produce high-resolution 24- or 32-bit files with sample rates up to 192 kHz for HD- and DVD-quality audio.

Loop-based soundtrack creation
Use flexible looping tools to quickly construct high-quality music for songs or soundtracks. Loops automatically match global session tempo and key.

Audio editing for video
Use Adobe Audition 2.0 to edit the soundtracks for videos created in Adobe After Effects or Adobe Premiere Pro software with the Edit Original and Edit in Adobe Audition features.

Intuitive user interface
Enjoy an updated, easy-to-use interface--consistent with those in the latest Adobe video applications--with workspace panels that dock and group for optimal organization, as well as new phase analysis tools and a powerful new Mixer panel.

Thousands of uncompressed 32-bit music loops
Arrange your own music with professional results using approximately 5,000 32-bit, performance-based, royalty-free music loops in many styles.

Edit and master

Audio restoration tools
Easily restore recordings from old vinyl; remove microphone pops, hisses, hums, and other audio artifacts; fix clipped audio; and repair recordings with Click/Pop Eliminators, Noise Reduction, and more.

Mastering rack in Edit View
Apply and preview multiple effects simultaneously when working with files in Edit View. Save frequently used rack settings as presets for convenient reuse.

Spectral Frequency Display tools
Visually isolate and select sounds in frequency and time, and then clean up, modify, or apply effects to the selected sound using the Spectral Frequency Display. Isolate specific sounds and increase the visibility of lower frequencies.

Spectral Pan and Phase displays
Analyze audio with powerful visualization tools including the unique Spectral Pan and Phase displays, which plot pan, phase, and frequency over time.

Customer Reviews

Overpriced, buggy piece of crap. Audition 1.5 was better.
If, like myself, you have many DX and VST plug-ins installed on your system, then Audition 2.0 is definitely NOT the choice with you. Somehow, the idiots who made this junk have made it completely incompatible with 3rd-party plugs such as Waves Diamond Bundle. Oddly enough, this was not a problem in earlier editions of Audition, or its former incarnation, CoolEdit. But now, Audition crashes irrevocably when trying to use many VST and DX plugs (except, of course, the ones made by Adobe themselves.)

Bottom line? This software is crap. Absolute crap. If you're serious about audio production, go with Wavelab. Heck, even free multitrack audio software like Kristal works better than this.

If, for some reason, you absolutely need Audition, then go with an earlier, more stable version, such as 1.5.

2.0 is about as useful as a football bat.

Garbage. Don't buy it
I agree with the other reviews this is a horrible piece of software. I am a software developer and have written some serious applications in my career, and this one ranks at the bottom of the barrel.

I have a stock Dell XP machine, and after a 15-minute install, Audition 2.0 crashes every time on startup. I never even got it to run. Tried calling Adobe support -- useless...waited 35 minutes on hold then hung up. Search of Google groups for answers revealed nothing, as did their support site.

I *loved* Cool Edit 2000, and even Audition 1.5 to some degree. This new version is what happens when too many engineers get put on a project. It's a remnant of a once great application. Avoid it like the plague.

Adobe Jumps the Shark
Adobe Audition is my favorite program. I use it more than any other program I have on my computer. I have used it to restore thousands of old phonograph discs. I am only giving them one star because I can't give them no stars for this joke.

I knew this was going to happen. I had been using Cool Edit Pro for a long time when Adobe bought it and I knew that they were going to turn it into an Adobe product and screw it all up. I am very fortunate that I went to Adobes web site and downloaded the free trail version. I would have been really upset if I had actually paid money for this dog.

Lets start with the boot up time. I own a 2 year old average laptop and Audition 1.5 used to boot in about 2 seconds. 2.0 takes 20 seconds. That is almost as long as Photoshop or Premiere Pro.

Next we have the user interface. They destroyed it. And the old one worked so well. Adobe is really hung up about making absolutely everything a "Palette" and so now every little thing is a palette, allowing you to resize and relocate them to your hearts desire. But after about a half an hour of trying I'll be darned if I could not make the 2.0 interface remotely resemble the 1.5 interface.

The shortcuts buttons have been removed (wow that makes a lot of sense), however you can get it back if you look long enough for the place to do it. (Don't bother to right-click anything, in their imperial wisdom right-clicking is now pretty useless.) But if you do put the shortcuts back up they are now all black and white and it is really difficult to find the one you want. In place of the shortcuts they added some icons that I have yet to figure out or to need. What are they thinking????

A lot of the presets have been reconfigured and trying to figure them out gave me a headache.

After several hours of playing with this pile of garbage I decided to uninstall it and return to using 1.5.