Starting a Project and Importing Files

Notice that projects in Adobe Audition 1.5 are called sessions. A session is simply a file that can contain multiple sound files organized into tracks and also retains information about when a certain sound is to be played (a timeline for each track). Whatever you want to use this program for, you will most likely need to know how to do the following things:

 1. Start a new session

 If you don’t know what this is, this is what you want!! After the application was started, you normally have a blank session open, where you can start adding sound files; however, you can select File - New Session if you want a new blank session, or want to change some settings like the sampling rate. If you don’t know what value you want for sampling rate, go with the default; that will give you CD-quality (44100), which is most likely better that what you need. If size of the sound is a problem, use 22050 - radio quality; this will give you a smaller file size. Session files in Adobe Audition contain no audio data themselves. Instead, a session file is a small file that points to other audio files on your hard drive. The session file keeps track of where the audio files are stored on the hard drive, each file’s location and duration within the session, what envelopes and effects are applied to the tracks, and so on.

Screencast - How to import the a file onto the software

 2. Open a session 

If you have saved a session, and you want to make further changes to it, you can reopen it using File - Open Session menu item.

 3. Add an existing sound file to the session

Click on the track you want to load the sound in. Right click, and select the Insert - Audio options from the popup menu. If you need the same sound multiple times, you should insert it once and, for subsequent uses, drag it from the Files tab of the treeview on the left to the track you want; this will keep the memory usage lower. flirtfm.ie 

4. Listen to what you have

 In the bottom section, click on the play button. This will play all tracks simultaneously according to the timeline, if you are in multitrack view. If you are in the edit view, this will only play the track you are currently editing. To play just a part of a file, select that part (in edit mode) and then click play.

 5. Save a session 

After you are done with your work, you can save the file (the session) using the File - Save session menu item while the multitrack view is activated. Please note that this will not give you a file that you can afterwards play in Winamp of any other music player. It will be a format specific to Adobe Audition. If you do not want to continue working on this project, and just want a normal sound file for broadcast, go to File/Export and select a destination and name for the file.

Note: If you have recorded a sound, that sound cannot be saved in the session file and it does not exist on your computer, so you must save it separately. Adobe Audition will offer to save it as a separate sound file, in a compressed file format (wma). If you need high quality for the recorded sound, you should switch to wav format.