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.

Zoom Controls and Time Display Fields

Zoom Controls

The zoom controls allow you zoom in either horizontally (magnifies time) or vertically (magnifies amplitude) with respect to your wav

Time Display Fields 

These are useful when selecting and splicing audio. The Sel time display fields show the time at which your selection begins and ends as well as the total time of the selection. The View time fields show the beginning, ending, and total time of the part of the waveform currently in the Waveform Display.

The Zoom Controls and Time Display Fields is find at the bottom of the software.

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3 Possible View

On the right side, there are 3 possible views:

a.

The multitrack view (default) is the list of active tracks; initially, each track is empty. What you normally do is load files in some of the tracks and order them along a timeline. Another possibility would be to load a file, split it into multiple parts and move each part to a separate track

Display Range Bar
This indicates which part of the entire waveform is currently being viewed in the waveform display. It is located above the sound track(s) in the active view. When you zoom in on your waveform, the bar will become smaller in size, as you are viewing a smaller portion of your entire audio file.

b.
If you double-click on a track in the multitrack view, you will be taken to the edit view. This means you have more options/tools for editing that specific track.

c.

The CD project view allows you to add tracks to an Audio CD and burn it when done. To add files to be written on the CD, just drag & drop them from the file list on the left (presented above). To order the files on the CD, use the Move Up and Move Down buttons.

The Central Part

3.
The central part, in turn, has two components: on the left, there is a treeview with all the currently open files and the effects that can be applied.

The Adobe Audition 1.5 Workspace

2.
The top part (menu bar and toolbar), where all the common options are located; of those, the most important ones are:

• Switch to edit view
• Switch to multiview 
• Switch to CD creation 
• New file
• Open file
• Save file

Switch to edit view

Switch to multiview

Open file

Switch to CD creation

New file

Save file

      

Note that within this program, the group of files (or the file) you are working on is called a session. If you have work in progress, and do not want to save the final product, do not export when you save data, but use the default file format (.ses)

The Basic Sound Control

The main default view of the program is divided in 3 sections:

1.
The bottom part, where the basic sound controls are present

• Play                                         
• Stop
• Pause                                     
• Play to end
• Fast forward                           
• Play looped
• Rewind                                   
• Go to end
• Record                                   
• Go to beginning 

Some Icon you will be familiar with when you are using the software

Play

Rewind

Record

Pause

Play looped

Fast forward

Stop

           
      
       
 

Adobe Audition

                            


Adobe Audition is digital sound editing program that allows you to open multiple sound files, record new ones, edit them, and save your work in a desired format. The editing process allows you mix different sound files, apply different effects. Once you are done with your work, you can create an audio CD or export your file to an external device.

Here is an intro on how to work the software!