Adobe Audition for Mac Confirmed, Beta Release in Late 2010

[Powerbooky]

Indeed... very anoying dude... one can be excited over a new product, maybe a bit too excited... but this guy?!

Anyway... It's great that Audition will come to Mac. I've been using Soundtrack for some time, but on a very fast MacPro it still is so slow. Large multi-track projects from FinalCut are so slow, and often crashes ST. And even de latest version hardly makes good use of multi-core cpu in current MacPro's.

 

[alphacrust]

Like MacSlut pointed out, Audition (or Cool Edit Pro for us oldies) has been used in radio production for many years. It was pretty much the only editing tool used in the BBC until the likes of Pro Tools came along.

Think I'm quite right in saying many professionals weren't overly impressed by Adobe's acquisition of Syntrillium Software back in 2003. The idea of a compact, stable piece of software been taken over and bloated didn't fill most people with joy. Thankfully Adobe hasn't done too much of a bad job of making updates. Probably concentrating a little too much on taking Audition down the VST / Protools root. Something I feel wasn't particularly necessary. At the end of the day those who followed the path of Audition were probably only using it for multitrack production / editing anyhow.

Now a fully fledged Mac user I can't wait to see it ported over. Like others it's the only reason I seem to use bootcamp on the mac.

For those radio junkies out there. What was the software we all used before Cool Edit Pro. Wave Editor ? Or something like that ?

Paul.

 

[valvehead]

I'm stoked (though not as much as the guy in the video). A Mac version will certainly be nice. If it works well, then I won't have to reboot into boot camp to edit my mixes.

I'm mostly excited about the major functionality changes they made. For example, I use amplitude statistics a lot to analyze pieces audio files. Currently I have to close the dialog box each time I want to select a different piece of the file. A dock-able module will be a massive time-saver.

Having the frequency analysis available in multitrack mode is also a big plus. I use the multitrack mode for mastering since it allows me to apply effects to individual tracks non-destructively. I can then bounce around quickly between songs to make sure they match up well. The frequency analysis will allow me to see if there are problem frequencies that need to be addressed, and then I can make eq adjustments without having to go back to edit mode.

I'm also impressed with the responsiveness shown in the video. He's probably using a fast Mac Pro, but it's also likely that Adobe spent considerable time in cleaning up the code before porting it. I'm sure those improvements will apply to the Windows version too.

For those radio junkies out there. What was the software we all used before Cool Edit Pro. Wave Editor ? Or something like that ?

Windows Sound Recorder!



For the heck of it, here is what my edit mode layout looks like...

 

[sparkster902]

audition/cool edit on the mac

I have got cool edit pro to work as a standalone application on my mac and it is only 21 mb . I used wineskin to wrap it as an app - just tested it this evening and everything works hunky dory once you reset the devices to core audio from wave mapper - i'd forgotten how good some of the audio effects were when applied to wavs/ aiffs.

WineSkin is available here:

http://wineskin.doh123.com/Information.html

 

[jayjohnson79]

I was a dedicated PC user for years. I worked in the radio industry editing commercials for a top 20 market. We used CoolEdit later Audition. When I went solo as a Producer and worked with several professional producers some used ProTools, others used Vault and Soundforge still a few used even other programs. But overall the best editing suite for clear multi-track with the ability to get down and dirty into the wudio wave form too is Audition.

ProTools is great if you have a band or multiple musical aspects that need equal attention.

But if all your doing is radio or tv audio editing. Audition is fantastic.

I had actually installed Virtual Machine for Mac and have been using Audition on my Mac that way. Key strokes were wrong and it's been a clunky term but I have gotten things done at the ad agency I work for now.

As soon as it comes out we intend to buy 4 licenses and I'm holding a workshop to teach our video editors how to edit audio too.

I don't care how long it took. I'm just happy it's here.

 

[Booch21]

I have been using Audition 3.0 for Windows for about a year and a half or so. Its pretty much all I know, but it came highly recommended, so that was worth going that direction. I use Audacity on my laptop when doing raw remote recording, but then I "fix" it in Audition.

I also do some video work and have the Production Premium package. I have CS4 for Windows and when I bought the Mac I upgraded to CS5. Soundbooth is the "poor man's" Audition. It is Adobe's entry level program and really is fine for most people. I'm learning the CS5 version which won't be a bad transition.

Now, I downloaded the Beta Audition for Mac this week. I was disappointed that the .ses files could not convert to the Audition for Mac's .sesx files without having to convert within 3.0 first. Minor detail but it does work. I haven't had enough time this week to really dive into Audition for Mac yet, but it appears to be well done and follows the CS4/CS5 look and feel.

I will report more if anyone is interested. I do voice work, but am by no means a professional sound engineer. I'd love to hear what others who are more skilled than I see what they think of the Beta. It will take some getting used to for me, but it will be an easy decision to upgrade to this version.