Adobe Audition 3

Product highlights

• All-in-one solution for audio recording, mixing, editing, and mastering
• Powerful, flexible, low-latency mixing engine with VSTi support for real-time recording and editing
• Complete audio mastering and restoration toolset for unprecedented flexibility and control

Audience benefit

Music professionals—Whether you’re a musician or a recording engineer, you know the sound you’re looking for, and you need the right software to help you get there. With more than 50 digital signal processing (DSP) effects; support for high-performance, ASIO-based hardware devices and industry-standard VSTi virtual instruments; and fast, accurate tools built into an intuitive workflow, Adobe Audition 3 lets you experiment with new ideas while laying your tracks down quickly and efficiently. When your recordings are complete, powerful editing and mastering features help you produce the end result you set out to achieve.

Video editors and producers—Adobe Audition 3 offers video editors and producers fast, intuitive tools for creating and editing audio for video productions. Create audio for video using a wide array of included royalty-free loops for soundtrack production; polish voice-overs with mastering tools including the Multiband Compressor and Convolution Reverb; clean up damaged recordings with powerful restoration tools like the Spectral Healing Brush and other visual tools similar to those in Adobe Photoshop® software; and much more. Adobe Audition 3 helps you bring the same professional quality results to your audio as you bring to your video.

Radio broadcasters—Adobe Audition 3 provides an all-in-one solution for fast, flexible audio editing and mastering to radio broadcasters operating in strict deadline environments. Polish voice-overs with included mastering tools like the Multiband Compressor, Mastering effect, and Convolution Reverb. Clean up and repair recordings with noise, clicks, crackle, and phase problems. Deliver quality audio on schedule using the one-stop audio and editing creation tools in Adobe Audition 3.

Comparison with Adobe Soundbooth™ CS3

Which audio tool is right for me?
Adobe Audition 3 is designed for audio specialists in music, radio, video, and the web. It provides a flexible production toolkit for a broad range of audio engineering tasks. In contrast, Adobe Soundbooth CS3 software is a professional tool built for video editors, Flash® designers and developers, motion graphics artists, and other creative professionals without audio expertise. Its task-based interface provides the tools necessary to quickly accomplish everyday audio tasks without sacrificing quality or control.

Feature list
Note: The following list contains features listed in order from most to least important. Please cut from the bottom when space is limited.

Top reasons to buy Adobe® Audition® 3

• Flexible, low-latency mixing engine—Work with high-performance audio devices that use the ASIO driver model. Mix your tracks on the fly, hearing changes as you make them. The mixing engine offers tremendous routing flexibility with support for all the effects you want, and VSTi virtual instrument support means even greater sonic variety, flexibility, and precision.
• Integrated wave-editing view with Mastering Rack—Record and edit individual audio files with fast, accurate tools that are also tightly integrated with the Multitrack View for an improved workflow. Use the Mastering Rack to apply and preview multiple effects simultaneously when working with files in Edit View. Quickly edit how your file starts and ends by zooming in with the Top and Tail View, and then adjust with on-clip controls for volume and fades.
• Unmatched audio restoration tools including frequency space editing—Restore recordings from old vinyl, remove hisses and hums, fix clipped audio and phase problems, and recover previously unusable recordings. Editing in frequency space has become more flexible with the new Effects Paintbrush tool and Spot Healing Brush.
• More than 50 included DSP effects and tools—Work with more than 50 digital signal processing (DSP) tools and effects, mastering and analysis tools, and audio restoration features. Expand your toolset even further with support for third-party VST and DirectX plug-ins.
• Loop-based music creation with thousands of included royalty-free loops—Use flexible looping tools to quickly construct high-quality music for songs or movie soundtracks. Loops automatically match global session tempo and key to produce dynamic compositions. Thousands of uncompressed, 32-bit, royalty-free loops are included.
• Audio editing for video, including unmatched integration with Adobe video software— Edit video soundtracks easily with the ability to view video frames in the timeline and import and export video files, including AVI, native DV, and WMV. Use Edit Original to quickly open an audio file’s source session from within Adobe Premiere® Pro software.
• Support for industry standards, including VST, VSTi, DirectX, ReWire, and BWF—Easily integrate Adobe Audition into your overall workflow thanks to broad support for industrystandard formats and models.
• Recordable parameter automation, including external hardware support—Move volume, pan, and effects controls as you listen, and record those changes to your mix in real time. Your changes appear as envelopes that can be edited in the timeline. Real-time parameter changes can also be made using an external hardware controller.
• Surround Encoder—Use the Surround Encoder to view a video while keyframing or editing any multitrack mix into a 5.1 surround-sound experience, and then export the results as an interleaved file for use in Adobe Premiere Pro.
• Intuitive, easy-to-learn user interface—Enjoy an updated, easy-to-use interface that is consistent with that found in the latest versions of Adobe video applications. Use workspace panels that can dock and group for easy desktop organization, and save panel arrangements as custom workspaces that can be recalled easily.

• VSTi virtual instrument support—Expand your options with support for a wide range of industry-standard virtual instruments in your music production. Record and edit MIDI in the piano roll editor to drive your VSTi virtual instruments.
• Spot Healing and Frequency Selection Brushes—Quickly brush over sounds you don’t want with the Spot Healing Brush, and they’re seamlessly removed. Or easily select only certain frequencies with the Frequency Selection Brush and apply any effect for creative results.
• Improved multitrack editing—Save time and increase accuracy by editing grouped clips together, including trims and fades (for example, easily apply trims and fades to all vocal or drum tracks at the same time to ensure consistency) and ripple delete on one or more tracks. Then quickly batch save all audio files.
• New effects including Convolution Reverb—New effects including Convolution Reverb, Analog Delay, mastering tools, and Tube-modeled Compressor offer an even wider range of creative possibilities.
• Radius time stretching from iZotope—Accurately change tempo without pitch changes, or pitch without tempo changes, using the high-quality Radius time stretch algorithm from industry leader iZotope.
• Guitar Suite—Enhance your sound with a stack of realistic effects designed for guitars or other instruments, including analog-modeled amplifier, filter, and distortion modules.
• Top and Tail View—See a zoomed-in view of the start and end of a file next to a view of the whole file so you can work specifically and effectively on the opening and closing segments of your tracks. Great for tuning loops or quickly making sure files start and end smoothly.
• New noise reduction and phase correction tools—The new Adaptive Noise Reduction tool adapts to the recording over time, adjusting the noise it removes to give you clean results. Also, address phase problems with automatic and manual phase correction tools.
• Multitrack auto-crossfade and fade handles—Auto-crossfade clips in Multitrack View to quickly mix files together. Click and drag fade handles on multitrack clips and in Edit View for faster editing.
• Improved performance and multicore support—Get more power with support for multicore systems. The optimized mix engine allows for more tracks and effects on the same system, offering more variety and faster processing.

• Flexible, low-latency mixing engine with ASIO hardware support—Work with highperformance audio devices that use the ASIO driver model. Mix your tracks on the fly, hearing changes as you make them. The mixing engine offers tremendous routing flexibility with support for all the effects you want, and VSTi virtual instrument support means even greater sonic variety, flexibility, and precision.
• Integrated wave-editing view with Mastering Rack—Record and edit individual audio files with fast, accurate tools that are also tightly integrated with the Multitrack View for an improved workflow. Use the Mastering Rack to apply and preview multiple effects simultaneously when working with files in Edit View. Quickly edit how your file starts and ends by zooming in with the Top and Tail View, and then adjust with on-clip controls for volume and fades.
• Unmatched audio restoration tools including frequency space editing—Restore recordings from old vinyl, remove hisses and hums, fix clipped audio and phase problems, and recover previously unusable recordings. Editing in frequency space has become more flexible with the new Effects Paintbrush tool and Spot Healing Brush.
• More than 50 included DSP effects and tools: Work with more than 50 digital signal processing (DSP) tools and effects, mastering and analysis tools, and audio restoration features. Expand your toolset even further with support for third-party VST and DirectX plug-ins.
• Loop-based music creation with thousands of included royalty-free loops—Use flexible looping tools to quickly construct high-quality music for songs or movie soundtracks. Loops automatically match global session tempo and key to produce dynamic compositions. Thousands of uncompressed, 32-bit, royalty-free loops are included.
• Support for industry standards, including VST, DirectX, ReWire, and BWF—Easily integrate Adobe Audition into your overall workflow thanks to broad support for industry-standard formats and models.
• Recordable parameter automation, including external hardware support—Move volume, pan, and effects controls as you listen, and record those changes to your mix in real time. Your changes appear as envelopes that can be edited in the timeline. Real-time parameter changes can also be made using an external hardware controller.
• Surround Encoder—Use the Surround Encoder to view a video while keyframing or editing any multitrack mix into a 5.1 surround-sound experience, and then export the results as an interleaved file for use in Adobe Premiere® Pro software.
• Intuitive, easy-to-learn user interface—Enjoy an updated, easy-to-use interface that is consistent with that found in the latest versions of Adobe video applications. Use workspace panels that can dock and group for easy desktop organization, and save panel arrangements as custom workspaces that can be recalled easily.

• Unmatched audio restoration tools including frequency space editing—Restore recordings from old vinyl, remove hisses and hums, fix clipped audio and phase problems, and recover previously unusable recordings. Editing in frequency space has become more flexible with the new Effects Paintbrush tool and Spot Healing Brush.
• More than 50 included DSP effects and tools—Work with more than 50 digital signal processing (DSP) tools and effects, mastering and analysis tools, and audio restoration features. Expand your toolset even further with support for third-party VST and DirectX plug-ins.
• Loop-based music creation with thousands of included royalty-free loops—Use flexible looping tools to quickly construct high-quality music for songs or movie soundtracks. Loops automatically match global session tempo and key to produce dynamic compositions. Thousands of uncompressed, 32-bit, royalty-free loops are included.
• Audio editing for video, including unmatched integration with Adobe video software— Edit video soundtracks easily with the ability to view video frames in the timeline and import and export video files, including AVI, native DV, and WMV. Use Edit Original to quickly open an audio file’s source session from within Adobe Premiere® Pro software.
• Support for industry standards, including VST, VSTi, DirectX, ReWire, and BWF—Easily integrate Adobe Audition into your overall workflow thanks to broad support for industry standard formats and models.
• Recordable parameter automation, including external hardware support—Move volume, pan, and effects controls as you listen, and record those changes to your mix in real time. Your changes appear as envelopes that can be edited in the timeline. Real-time parameter changes can also be made using an external hardware controller.
• Surround Encoder—Use the Surround Encoder to view a video while keyframing or editing any multitrack mix into a 5.1 surround-sound experience, and then export the results as an interleaved file for use in Adobe Premiere Pro.
• Intuitive, easy-to-learn user interface—Enjoy an updated, easy-to-use interface that is consistent with that found in the latest versions of Adobe video applications. Use workspace panels that can dock and group for easy desktop organization, and save panel arrangements as custom workspaces that can be recalled easily. Top reasons for radio broadcasters to buy
• Integrated wave-editing view with Mastering Rack—Record and edit individual audio files with fast, accurate tools that are also tightly integrated with the Multitrack View for an improved workflow. Use the Mastering Rack to apply and preview multiple effects simultaneously when working with files in Edit View. Quickly edit how your file starts and ends by zooming in with the Top and Tail View, and then adjust with on-clip controls for volume and fades.
• Unmatched audio restoration tools including frequency space editing—Restore recordings from old vinyl, remove hisses and hums, fix clipped audio and phase problems, and recover previously unusable recordings. Editing in frequency space has become more flexible with the new Effects Paintbrush tool and Spot Healing Brush.
• More than 50 included DSP effects and tools—Work with more than 50 digital signal processing (DSP) tools and effects, mastering and analysis tools, and audio restoration features. Expand your toolset even further with support for third-party VST and DirectX plug-ins
• Support for industry standards, including VST, VSTi, DirectX, ReWire, and BWF— Easily integrate Adobe Audition into your overall workflow thanks to broad support for industry-standard formats and models.
• Recordable parameter automation, including external hardware support—Move volume, pan, and effects controls as you listen, and record those changes to your mix in real time. Your changes appear as envelopes that can be edited in the timeline. Real-time parameter changes can also be made using an external hardware controller.
• Intuitive, easy-to-learn user interface—Enjoy an updated, easy-to-use interface that is consistent with that found in the latest versions of Adobe video applications. Use workspace panels that can dock and group for easy desktop organization, and save panel arrangements as custom workspaces that can be recalled easily.

Järjestelmävaatimukset:

Windows®

• Intel® Pentium® 4- (1,4 GHz:n suoritin DV-työhön; 3,4 GHz:n suoritin HDV-työhön), Intel Centrino® -, Intel Xeon® - (kahdella 2,8 GHz:n suorittimella HD-työhön) tai Intel Core™ Duo -suoritin tai vastaava (AMD-järjestelmissä on oltava SSE2:ta tukeva suoritin)
• Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional tai Home Edition ja Service Pack 2 tai Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate tai Enterprise (hyväksytty 32-bittisille versioille)
• 512 megatavua RAM-muistia (1 gigatavu DV-toistoon; 2 gigatavua HDV- ja HD-toistoon)
• 10 gigatavua vapaata kiintolevytilaa (kun käytetään Loopology DVD:n kanssa)
• Asennukseen tarvitaan DVD-asema.
• Näyttötarkkuuteen 1 280 x 960 ja 32-bittiseen väritilaan kykenevä näytönohjain ja 16 Mt VRAM-muistia
• Microsoft DirectX - tai ASIO-yhteensopiva äänikortti
• QuickTime-ominaisuuksien käyttöön tarvitaan QuickTime 7.0 -ohjelmisto.
• Tuotteen aktivointiin tarvitaan Internet- tai puhelinyhteys.