Auto-duck music [NEW]
While working on a project, automatically create a volume overlay for duck music behind the dialogue, sound effects, or any other audio clip using the Ducking parameter on the Essential Sound Panel. This feature simplifies the steps you take to achieve professional-sounding audio mixes.
Multitrack clip improvements [NEW]
When recording punch-ins or layering sounds, the clip Z-order is now maintained while selecting stacked clips so that smaller clips do not get lost behind longer ones. Commands in the clip content menu make it easy to move clips to the front or back, and preferences allow users to customize the behavior. More improvements allow for symmetrical clip fades, or adjusting fade curves or duration independently.
Support for Mackie HUI capable devices [NEW]
This release of Audition includes support for the Mackie HUI control surface protocol. To control your mix, transport, and automation in Audition, use HUI emulation mode with almost all modern control surfaces ..
Dynamic effects [NEW]
A new, modern version of the classic, but discontinued Premiere Pro Dynamics audio effect has been introduced to Audition and Premiere Pro. This simple yet powerful plugin offers a compressor, expander, limiter, and noise gate in one easy-to-use tool.
Input monitoring [NEW]
Input monitoring allows you to preview the input from your recording device before starting the actual recording either by observing the level meters or listening to it.
Timecode overlay [NEW]
This release of Audition lets you view the session and media timecode overlays in the Video panel. You can also lock your video output to your external display. The timecode overlay displays the current time display string as an overlay on the video panel and the video fullscreen monitor.
Multichannel audio workflows
Multichannel audio workflow allows you to separate all audio channels to unique clips automatically. You can customize the channels assigned to a clip and adjust Specific Channel Routing.
Enhanced interchange with Premiere Pro CC
This feature enhances the Edit in Audition workflow when sending Premiere Sequences to Audition.Audition now supports Premiere Pro project files as the default interchange format. This allows you to transfer significantly more information to Audition such as Effects and their Parameters, Submixes, and Essential Sound Panel settings.
keyboard shortcut editor
Use the Visual Keyboard Shortcut Editor to see which keys have been assigned shortcuts and which are available for assignment. A tool tip reveals the full command name when you hover over a key in the Keyboard layout. When you select a modifier key on the keyboard layout, the keyboard displays all the shortcuts that require the modifier.
Updated audio effects
Many existing audio effects now have spectrum meters, gain meters, and gain reduction meters. You can use the frequency spectrum to identify imbalances in audio and use control points to correct them. Level meter shows the input level of the audio, and the Gain Reduction Meter shows how the audio signals are compressed or expanded.
Guides for getting started
The new onboarding experience offers new users a series of guided walkthroughs of common tasks. These guides help to navigate the core functionality and capabilities with ease, including reducing background noise, mixing audio elements, and producing a simple podcast. Coach marks and concise tutorials are offered within the application to enable you to get started with Audition.
Essential Sound panel
The Essential Sound Panel provides you with a complete toolkit to mix your audio for professional-quality output. The panel provides simple controls to unify volume levels, repair sound, improve clarity, and add special effects. The effects help your video projects sound like a professional audio engineer has mixed them. You can save the applied adjustments as presets for reuse and they reflect in the full Audition toolset, making them handy for more audio enhancements.
Direct export from Audition to Adobe Media Encoder
Audition can now export your edited audio directly to Adobe Media Encoder. The feature allows a fully linear post-production workflow, using the format presets and audio channel customization without rendering or wrangling various mixdown files.
Remixing and adjusting song duration
Create remixes of music files from a collection. For example, you can take a song that has a longer duration and create a shorter version that still sounds like the original. You can recompose any piece of music in your collection to fit the video or project duration.
Synthesized speech
Type or paste text, and generate a realistic voice-over or narration track. Use this tool to create synthesized voices for videos, games, and audio productions.
Automatic loudness correction
Match loudness in audio clips, and apply correction to support various loudness standards and true peak limiting. The Match Loudness panel replaces the old Match Volume panel.
Enable CEP Extensions
You can use the Common Extensibility Platform (CEP) extensions and build integrated panels in Adobe desktop applications.
Dynamic Link for streaming video content from Adobe Premiere Pro
The new Dynamic Link video streaming feature lets you stream video without rendering when sending projects from Premiere Pro to Audition.
Live relinking
Audition now lets you easily replace assets within an open project. Any edits made to the original clip are retained and applied to the new material, so you can work uninterrupted even when the asset changes.
Dual display full-screen video
Get the most out of your editing experience in Audition by using a full-screen dual-monitor workflow.Display the contents of your video full screen on a secondary monitor using HDMI, DVI, or VGA. This feature is especially useful for editing Foley and sound effects for video, recording ADR (Automatic Dialog Replacement) or voiceovers, and displaying your work as you edit.
Auto-backup to Adobe Creative Cloud
Audition lets you store periodic backups of your session file to prevent any loss due to power failure, crash, or file corruption. In the Preferences dialog, select Auto Save and select Backup Multitrack Session Files Automatically. Then, select a backup location that can be your Creative Cloud storage environment, the session folder, or any other location of your choice.
Marker import and export
Audition can import markers from any file containing XMP marker metadata including video files from Premiere Pro and Prelude. You can import markers into either an audio file (displayed in the Waveform editor) or a multitrack composition in Audition. You can share these markers with third-party applications by exporting the markers to a CSV file using the Markers panel. At any point, you can import the CSV markers file back into Audition.
Automatic copying of imported assets to session folder
Audition lets you set custom levels for Yellow (Caution) and Red (Warning) indicators in the Level Meters panel. You can comply with station regulations or personal preferences by selecting custom values for level meter crossover points. In the Preferences dialog, select Playback, and specify the Yellow and Red levels.
Timed recordings
You can now schedule recordings in advance, and Audition captures them automatically, or starts recording immediately for a specified duration.
Expanded video format support
Adobe Premiere Pro CC offers extensive native media support, letting you edit all the major video, image, and audio formats natively. The 2014.1 release of Audition CC supports all the native video formats that are supported by Premiere Pro.
Enhanced Speech Volume Leveler
The new Target Dynamic Range option in Audition provides better control over volume leveling for spoken content.
iXML metadata support
Audition can now read, modify, and generate iXML metadata. The iXML metadata is typically captured by audio recording devices or on-site audio recording software such as Metacorder for Mac. An important feature of iXML metadata is the ability to select and mark the best takes, and record on-set notes.
Custom channelization
To support different surround formats and configurations, Audition lets you add new custom audio channels when you create an audio file. Custom channels are typically used in audio for cinema, broadcast, and video games.
Enhanced multitrack environment
Audition provides several user interface improvements to help you work more efficiently with multitrack projects. Visual enhancements such as improved visibility, minimizing tracks you're not working on, and randomizing assigned track colors help you work more easily with complex audio projects.
Sound Remover effect
The Sound Remover effect removes unwanted audio sources from a recording. This effect analyzes a selected portion of the recording, and builds a sound model that is used to find and remove the sound.
Click / Pop Eliminator and DeClicker effects
Use the Click / Pop Eliminator effect to remove microphone pops, clicks, light hiss, and crackles. Such noise is common on recordings such as old vinyl records and on-location recordings.
ITU Loudness Meter
Adobe Audition now has an integrated, customized version of the TC Electronic Loudness Radar meter plug-in. Available in both waveform and multitrack views, it provides you with information on peak, average, and range levels.
Pitch Bender and Pitch Shifter effects
Use the Pitch Bender effect to change the pitch over time. The effect now uses a keyframe edit envelope across the entire waveform, similar to the Fade and Gain Envelope effects. Use the Pitch Shifter to change the musical pitch. It's a real-time effect that can be combined with other effects in the mastering rack or the effects rack.
Preview editor
You can now see in real time, how the waveform looks before you apply changes. Or work on separate regions of a file simultaenously. This functionality is especially valuable when you are working with the effects that change the duration of a clip. Choose View> Show Preview Editor to display the preview.
Frequency band splitter
Use Frequency Band Splitter to take one audio clip (or a selection in a clip) and make up to eight copies, where each copy contains a different frequency range contained in the original clip. The crossover frequencies determine the split points. Each copy of the waveform is created as a new file, and placed in the Files panel. You can then edit or apply effects to each band separately.
Waveform editing with Spectral Frequency Display
You can now easily add, remove, and invert the spectral selections made using the marquee, lasso, or paintbrush selection tools.
Smart track colors
To make it easier to identify tracks, a color bar is added to the tracks. These color bars are added to the left of the track header, or at the bottom of the mixer panel. When you add a clip to a track, the clip color changes to match that of the track.
Paste control for multitrack sessions
New functionality allows you to control paste operations in a multitrack session: You can choose to paste all clips in the same target track or multiple tracks. Press Alt while dragging to toggle. You can specify the default behavior in the Multitrack Clip preferences. When enabled, a new preference, avoids overlapping clips when inserting or pasting new clips creates new tracks.
Phase Analysis panel
Use the Phase Analysis Panel (Window> Phase Analysis) to reveal out-of-phase channels for stereo waveforms. The Phase Analysis panel also shows stereo separation. You can choose from multiple-phase views, including Histogram, Mid / Side, Lissajous, and Phase Wheel. For additional display options, right click on the graph and select an option.
Edit Favorites feature
Use the new Favorites panel to record, view, organize, run, or edit your favorite tasks. To display the Favorites panel, select Window> Favorites or Favorites> Edit Favorites.
Audio extraction from CDs
Extract selected CD tracks to a single file. Insert an audio CD into an optical drive and select File> Extract Audio from CD. Select the tracks and enable Extract to Single File.
Faster, more precise editing
Select multiple clips, and select Clip> Groups> Group Clips. You can move and edit grouped clips together, and even stretch them proportionately when clip stretching is enabled. Group stretch, gain, color and other settings are available in the Properties panel.
Real-time clip stretching
Quickly stretch the clips to the required length while previewing the results during playback. In the Editor panel, select multiple clips to stretch them proportionately. In the Properties panel, choose from a variety of stretch types optimized for different audio content.
Automatic speech alignment
To quickly align overdubbed dialogue with original production audio, use automatic speech alignment.Audition matches the timing of each word, even if the original audio is noisy or differs in overall length.
Control surface support and parameter automation
Mix audio interactively with popular control surfaces using the EUCON, Mackie MCU, or Logic Control protocols (including the Avid Artist series formerly made by Euphonix). Or use third-party, tablet-based controllers that support these protocols. You can even use multiple devices simultaneously.
Manual and automatic pitch controls
The Pitch Correction effect allows you to visually adjust the pitch with the Spectral Pitch Display. The Spectral Pitch Displayshows the basic pitch as a bright blue line, and overtones in yellow to red hues.Corrected pitch appears as a bright green line. The Automatic Pitch Correction effect is available in both Waveform and Multitrack editors. In the latter, its parameters can be automated over time using keyframes and external control surfaces.
Enhanced radio automation support
Audition CS6 fully integrates with radio automation systems.
