About Adobe Audition
Adobe Audition is a comprehensive audio workstation that allows students, teachers, and businesses to create, mix, edit, and restore audio. Available separately or as part of Adobe Creative Cloud, the platform includes audio editing tools designed to enhance music, podcast, and other sound effect designing projects.
Features of Adobe Audition include editing previews, frequency splitting, automatic speech alignment, live relinking of assets, custom port channelization, iXML metadata support, and more. It provides a multitrack editor, which allows professionals to produce multitrack sessions from videos, add crossfades between two sets of music and utilize the Essential Sound panel to adjust sound and volume in the entire audio clip. It also allows users to add, delete, and hide tracks to focus on specific parts of the project and preview registering audio inputs in the recording device before initiating the actual process.
Adobe Audition allows businesses to connect the platform with Adobe Premiere Pro to improve timeline-based editing workflows across videos. It also supports integration with third-party control protocols such as Mackie MCU, EUCON, Emagic Logic Control, and more.
Pricing starting from:
US$33,99/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Markets
United States
Supported Languages
English
Pricing starting from:
US$33,99/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Total features of Adobe Audition: 16
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- Industry: Civil Engineering
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Me experience with Adobe Audition
Reviewed on 2022/04/25
I do not think that there are negative things in this program or missing something important...
I do not think that there are negative things in this program or missing something important because it is actually a professional program for everyone who wants to produce a wonderful work
Pros
What I liked and really impressed me the most is the artificial intelligence that distinguishes this program in many features such as mixing sounds, mastering and sound recording, which brings you the work in the way you want and that you wish without requiring a lot of training to use it
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I do not think that there are negative things in this program or missing something important because it is actually a professional program for everyone who wants to produce a wonderful work
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 5 001-10 000 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Adobe Audition Leads the Field
Reviewed on 2022/02/17
Pros
I have been using Adobe Audition (and its predecessor incarnation, Cool Edit Pro) for decades at this point. I have used it to record half a dozen indie rock albums, make music mixes for radio programs, and record multiple podcast episodes. Adobe Audition can transform anyone's computer into a powerful, fully featured recording, mixing, and mastering studio. It is easy to use and has all of the features industry professionals expect: waveform editing, waveform manipulation, multitrack recording and mixing, mastering filters, and more. All of these come wrapped in a fairly easy to learn, easy to use palletized Adobe format. What's more, Audition's synergies with other software (both within the Adobe family and through plugins) means that users are never working in a "walled garden."
Cons
Over my two decades using multiple versions of Adobe Audition, I have found little that I don't like. In the early days, I encountered some stability and performance issues with the software, but those don't seem to affect the most recent versions (from the past decade). I could nitpick and wish that some functionality present in plugins was in-built into the software, but that is obviated by the fact that plugins are easy to find and integrate. Probably my biggest gripe with the current iteration of Adobe Audition is its shift to a subscription, software-as-service model. This expense can put this powerful software out of reach for many aspiring recording engineers.
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AudacityReasons for Switching to Adobe Audition
In looking to move on from an older version of the Adobe Audition, I considered free options like Garageband and Audacity. While those look like capable pieces of software, my familiarity with Adobe Audition, along with the sheer depth and power of its features made the choice easy.- Industry: Computer Networking
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10
A light digital audio workstation - good for simple projects and lots of free sound effects.
Reviewed on 2021/07/21
Adobe Audition is fine for simpler use cases - for adding sound effects to podcasts and vlogs or...
Adobe Audition is fine for simpler use cases - for adding sound effects to podcasts and vlogs or simple videos, it's a perfectly good choice. And it's huge library of sounds is very much appreciated.
However, for any in depth audio creation or sound composition, it is easily outclassed by most other audio workstations, including Logic Pro, FL and Cubase.
Pros
What I like most about Adobe Audition is its genuinely vast library of royalty-free sound effects, which can be easily acquired and dragged/dropped into an audio project. What also helps is that all of these sound effects that are freely available to use are high quality - something very rarely found in such a simple manner. Often free sound effects vary greatly in quality, so it is great to have so many good quality samples ready to go.
Cons
There are a couple of issues with Adobe Audition. Firstly, because of the sheer amount of good quality useable samples, it can actually be a problem taking the time to sift through them and find which one is most appropriate - merely a problem of having too many options, which isn't a bad problem to have, but it can slow down the process.
Secondly, Audition is fairly restricted in its usability. For simpler audio projects (such as adding in a few sound effects to a pre-recorded track - perhaps a podcast or vlog) it is perfectly acceptable, but for any kind of composition or detailed audio creation, it appears to be lacking in features that other audio workstations have as standard. Logic Pro would be a superior choice, but it comes with a bigger price tag.
- Industry: Animation
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
It's the program I use for audio editing and recording.
Reviewed on 2022/12/01
It's a good program for complex and simple audio editing, being easily incorporated with other...
It's a good program for complex and simple audio editing, being easily incorporated with other Adobe programs.
Pros
I use it mainly because of it's integration with the other Adobe apps, Premiere Pro and After Effects. It's easy to create tracks and record audio in a multi-track composition. It's good for complex and simple projects.
Cons
It's price is a Cons. Audacity it's also a great product and it's free. I don't use it in super complex project so I don't know which is beast, but I know both are good, while one it's paid and the other it's free.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great audio editing companion in the Adobe CC suite
Reviewed on 2022/10/19
Adobe Audition helps to complete the overall workflow for video editing and can very well be used...
Adobe Audition helps to complete the overall workflow for video editing and can very well be used independently just for audio projects. It is included with the suite of Adobe CC products, so it helps to make it a valuable investment.
Pros
What I really like is the simplicity with which it integrates to other products from the Adobe family, and you can go back and forth to edit audio when at Premiere Pro or After Effects.It contains the most fundamental tools to do the job without leaving your digital workflow on your workstation.
Cons
I think that it can improve on the way of managing media file elements in a unified way, so that all assets can be managed in a centralized way for a video and audio editing session.
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AudacityReasons for Choosing Adobe Audition
It was included as part of the Adobe CC suite, so it was superfluous paying another license.Switched From
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It integrates easily into our current workflow that is based on Adobe CC.Adobe Audition FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Adobe Audition.Q. What type of pricing plans does Adobe Audition offer?
Adobe Audition offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$33,99/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Not Available
Adobe Audition offers a 7-day free trial for new users, after which the software is available across pricing tiers. Pricing and functionality - outlined below: Annual plan (billed monthly): US$20.99/month Annual plan (prepaid): US$239.88/year Monthly plan: US$31.49/month
Q. Who are the typical users of Adobe Audition?
Adobe Audition has the following typical customers:
2-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1 000, 1 001-5 000
Q. What languages does Adobe Audition support?
Adobe Audition supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Adobe Audition support mobile devices?
Adobe Audition supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Adobe Audition integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations Adobe Audition has
Q. What level of support does Adobe Audition offer?
Adobe Audition offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
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