Adobe Audition for Mac Beta Now Available

[MacRumors]

Back in June, we pointed to a YouTube video appearing to show a Mac version of Adobe Audition, the company's professional audio editing software. Just a few weeks later, Adobe confirmed its plans to bring Audition to Mac OS X and noted that a public beta would be released in late 2010.

Adobe has followed through on that schedule with today's release of the public beta of Audition for Mac, now available through the Adobe Labs site.

Welcome to the public beta release of Adobe Audition for Mac. Adobe Audition for Mac brings modern audio post-production to the Mac platform. Familiar tools for audio editing, multitrack mixing and recording meet improved performance, greater workflow flexibility, and new features such as native 5.1 surround support and new effects. Plus, the best-of-breed audio sweetening and restoration tools in Audition make it easy to clean up production audio. With essential tools you can rely on for quick-completion projects, Audition for the Mac brings a fresh face to audio post-production.

The free beta will be functional throughout the beta testing period and requires a multi-core Intel processor and Mac OS X 10.5.7 or later. Adobe has also posted a discussion forum for Adobe Audition for Mac to allow beta testers to discuss and provide feedback on the beta software.

Article Link: Adobe Audition for Mac Beta Now Available

 

[definitive]

the guy in the video reminds me of jimmy two times.

"im gonna go get the papers, get the papers"

 

[DTphonehome]

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Talk about a love/hate relationship…

 

[aristotle]

I'm not your friend, guy.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

Talk about a love/hate relationship…

Yea, it's a little dizzying.

I've got a rager for this. Finally I can work with my old CoolEdit projects without having to completley rebuild em on the Mac or keep an install of windows around.

Nice job Adobe. Now if only you guys would get off your butts and bring Flash to the ipad...


jk jk jk

 

[SatyMahajan]

the guy in the video reminds me of jimmy two times.

"im gonna go get the papers, get the papers"

lmao

 

[bdkennedy1]

I hope it doesn't have any Flash code in it.

 

[dlewis23]

I hope it doesn't have any Flash code in it.

lol...

 

[Warbrain]

Anyone want to say the Mac is dead?

 

[blondepianist]

No custom installer!? Adobe might be catching on to how we do things around here.

 

[Xavier]

This is great news!!!!

 

[odedia]

Good news for Leo Laporte .

 

[sullen]

great news, audition was one of the few things i missed when i switched over to mac.

 

[ajs15822]

Oh man, I've been waiting for Mac support for a very long time-- I started using Audition back when it was called "Syntrillium Cool Edit Pro" (it was acquired by Adobe and re-branded).

Can't wait to play with this!

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

I like it. Just drag and drop.

 

[guzhogi]

Why do I get the feeling it's not a 64-bit Cocoa app?

 

[camnchar]

Would this program be of benefit to podcasters or is it more of a professional audio editor targeted mainly toward musicians?

 

[ajs15822]

Why do I get the feeling it's not a 64-bit Cocoa app?

It's 32-bit, I just checked.

 

[Mr. Retrofire]

Why do I get the feeling it's not a 64-bit Cocoa app?

I think Audition uses already 128-Bit SIMD instructions (SSE, SSE2 and so on), and Cocoa does not result in any performance gain.

 

[M87]

Couldn't hurt to check it out, but I doubt I'll be switching from Logic.

 

[Mr. Retrofire]

Would this program be of benefit to podcasters or is it more of a professional audio editor targeted mainly toward musicians?

How many people produce podcasts with 5.1 channels?

 

[blackpond]

Oh man, I've been waiting for Mac support for a very long time-- I started using Audition back when it was called "Syntrillium Cool Edit Pro" (it was acquired by Adobe and re-branded).

Can't wait to play with this!

Great news! I've been using it since Syntrillium Cool Edit 96 - before it went pro. haha.

 

[markm49uk]

the guy in the video reminds me of jimmy two times.

"im gonna go get the papers, get the papers"

Funny - had to switch off as the guy's enthusiasm was too much on a cold, miserable day here in the UK.

 

[shartypants]

Cool, they are still developing for the Mac

 

[Durin]

Durin from the Audition team here..

Hey all,

MacRumors fan, thought I'd make an official account and answer any questions I can about this public beta release of Adobe Audition for the Mac.

Audition has long been a tool for recording professionals and amateurs, and while it was very good and live music recording and production, it was never really intended as a replacement for more composition/synthesizer-based applications like Cubase. We did license some MIDI Sequencing technology in Audition 3, but I won't hesitate to say that it was not up to the quality and ease of use as the majority of our application. Audition is excellent as a tool for musicians recording live performances, for podcasters, and especially for audio post-production in audio or video houses.

The application has been re-written from scratch, though the core DSP remains the same. This release IS 32-bit only, not because we don't see value in a 64-bit release but for technical and marketing concerns. That said, we have been building 64-bit releases internally and while I can't state for certain that we'll support 64-bit in the future, I personally see no reason it won't happen soon enough.

I encourage you to share your thoughts, wishes, demands, and crafty insults about this release. If you have plug-ins that cause problems or are incompatible, or find your hardware doesn't work as well as it should, please let me know here or on the Adobe Labs discussion board so we can make sure it's solid for the final release.

Thanks!