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Adobe Audition Coming to Mac OS X?

As a radio production vet of 10 years, I am thrilled to hear that Adobe Audition is possibly migrating over to Apple. My home work station is an iMac i purchased in March of 2009 after using an 8 year old Pentium 3 workstation. The only reason still have that Model T Ford like device is for Adobe Audition. I thought about bootcamp and buying a copy of Windows 7 but it costs just as much as a full copy of Audition. And it defeats the purpose of of moving away from Windows based systems. Soundbooth in no way shape or form holds a candle to what Audition can do. It is very rudimentary. It is the equivolent of a concert pianst using boxing gloves to bang out a ditty.

If you are a music producer use something else. Adobe Audition is used by radio stations across the country. It is cheap and easy to use. There is no proprietary hardware to use. It is great for .wav and .mp3 editing and conversion. It also burns CD's. All this and it is only version 1.5 that I use at work. I used 2.0 for a 3 month and fell in love with the Izotope compressors that came with it. I have not yet used 3.0 but plan on buying AA for Mac.
 
Wow! I'm more excited about the possibility of this than the WWDC keynote. I use Audition for radio production. You can't compare Audition to Logic or Pro Tools as they are different solutions. No matter what you use or do, Audition coming to mac would be a great thing.
 
I'll second Myca. If you're coming from the PC side of the world, you've been spoiled by Soundforge, Audition & Wavelab. The mac offerings are just not on par. They may be better than that ol' SoundEdit 16, but they're largely an uncomfortable lot for me as well as they either don't have the same work flow or are just not up to snuff. I had high hopes for Peak, but it just wasn't the same.

Wavelab is supposed to be coming for Mac, but I don't see it on the site. If you know of it being out, please tell me, I've been wondering about it. It was announced a while back.

Audition is a true sleeper. It's not favored by musicians (though some have recorded in it), but it's a multi-media person's dream. It has a great workflow, deep power, and it's fast and able. You don't need to leave the program for big or small projects.

I'm forced to use Soundbooth (which is Audition's developmentally challenged sibling) or Soundtrack Pro (able, but suffering from bad GUI and hampered workflow). I'd feel like my Macs were complete with Audition.
 
Interesting....

Weirdly, I also find myself waxing nostalgic for SoundEdit 16 just because it was super simple and did what it was supposed to.

Peak I have mixed feelings about.

Oddly, I find myself using the denoising tool Izotope RX more as an audio editor than anything else and that is an application that's really not intended for that purpose.

It's wonderful for restoration of noisy source material or removal of noise in original source material that would be difficult or impossible to recreate (live performances with spurious noise bursts or the like).
 
bentley said:
I'm a radio journalist and this just made my day.

Those who are talking about Audition in comparison to Logic and Pro Tools are missing the main use of Audition. It's a very, very good wave editor not aimed at being a sequencer or DAW like the other two.
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Audition is very good and gets highest marks from nitpicky audiophiles, because it uses an advanced windowed sinc interpolation algorithm for resampling. In layman's terms it means that changing the pitch of a waveform will yield a very clean and artifact-free result. Logic gets very low marks in that department because its resampling algorithm is built for performance, not quality. In Audition you do these things offline so realtime performance doesn't really matter.
 
Real!!!

IntelliUser said:
The loading screen said it was a prerelease version. Maybe it's a PC prerelease version, run under VmWare?
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i know who made this video, and it is 100% real authentic adobe software.
they will be releasing it in the next few weeks.
 
hmmm

spritelyjim said:
My biggest question is, does anyone actually keep their dock unhidden and huge like that? Especially professionals using professional software that really could benefit from all that extra space? I just find that odd.
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maybe the person who made the video works for adobe, and doesn't really use OS X too much, because he likes windows better. since i know the person who made, and posted the video, i'd say my sources are 100% certain.
 
To all of the guys that keep saying "Audition sucks. Why not just use Pro Tools or Logic?"

I've been using PT and Logic for over 10 years to record, produce, and mix records. That's not what Audition is for. It's an audio editor, not a multi-track DAW. The reason Audition coming to the Mac is big new is because there is no decent editor for the Mac. I use Audacity for some quick low level stuff but that's it. I used SoundForge on a PC about 5 years ago to chop some samples and was blown away within two minutes. Using the scroll wheel to zoom in on audio did it for me. I even bought a copy of it and Virtual PC to run on my G5. This is what lots of people have done and that era is now over thanks to Audition and Wavelab coming to the Mac.
 
L-Fire said:
The reason Audition coming to the Mac is big new is because there is no decent editor for the Mac.
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I just don't get this. I guess there's a trend for people to ignore/bash Peak but it has always done the job for me.
 
This is new

I have been using Audition since the CoolEdit days, for a number of reasons, especially the spectral view (which now is becoming more and more common), and the easy switch between multitrack and destructive editing. Anyhow, from what I can see, the edition seen on video, is not the current 3.1, or any of the previous editions of AA. There are a number of improvements and differences both visually and in workflow on the edition seen on youtube. I have been hesitant to switch to mac for years because of this program. I currently did though, and have yet to find an equivalent program to my new, nice and shiny macbook pro:) The video gives me alot to hope for, and from what I can see, alot to look forward to. You have to be very much into Audition and have a strange sence of humor to make a hoax like this. Not to say alot of time. I´m just hoping for better midihardware -compatibility. So Adobe, bring it on!
 
I wonder how you can get to be a beta tester for something like this . . .
 
kmstrs said:
Wrong. That icon just means that VMWare is installed on the computer, not that the app is actually using it. I have the same icon on my menu bar and I never run any programs under unity.
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I have vmware fusion on my computer. When not in use, there's no icon giving unity mode away.

True, it's possible vmware was running something else and was minimized, but there is enough reasonable doubt.

Shame it's too easy to use photoshop and blot out the icon...
 
thermodynamic said:
I have vmware fusion on my computer. When not in use, there's no icon giving unity mode away.

True, it's possible vmware was running something else and was minimized, but there is enough reasonable doubt.

Shame it's too easy to use photoshop and blot out the icon...
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uhhhh . . . there is an option to always show on menu bar in the vmware preferences. ;)
 
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