Adobe Audition

Set Up Adobe Audition CC

• Audio interface basics
• Windows audio setup
• Testing inputs
• Using external interfaces
• Keyboard shortcuts

 

The Audition Interface

• Two applications in one
• Audition workspaces
• Explore the interface

 

Waveform Editing

• Open a file
• Video files
• Select regions
• Cut, Copy, and Paste
• Use multiple clipboards
• Mix paste
• Create a loop
• Showing waveform data under the cursor
• Add fades

 

Effects

• Effects basics
• Using the Effects Rack
• Effect categories
• Amplitude and Compression effects
• Delay and echo effects
• Filter and EQ effects
• Modulation effects
• Noise reduction/restoration
• Reverb effects
• Special effects
• Stereo imagery effects
• Time and Pitch effects
• Third-party effects (VST and AU)
• Using the Effects menu
• Presets and favorites

 

Audio Restoration

• Reducing hiss
• Reducing crackles
• Reducing pops and clicks
• Reducing broadband noise
• De-humming a file
• Removing artifacts
• Manual sound removal
• The Spot Healing brush
• Automated sound removal

 

Mastering

• Mastering basics
• Equalization
• Dynamics
• Ambience
• Stereo imaging
• Push the drum hits; then apply the changes
• Mastering diagnostics

 

Sound Design

• Generate noise, speech, and tones
• Creating rain sounds
• Creating a babbling brook
• Creating insects at night
• Creating an alien choir
• Creating sci-fi machine effects
• Creating an alien drone flyby
• Extracting frequency bands

 

Creating and Recording Files

• Recording into the Waveform Editor
• Recording into the Multitrack Editor
• Checking remaining free space
• Dragging into an Audition editor
• Importing tracks as individual files from an audio CD

 

Multitrack Sessions

• Create a multitrack session
• Multitrack session templates
• Multitrack and Waveform Editor integration
• Changing track colors
• The Tracks panel
• Loop selections for playback
• Track controls
• Channel mapping in the Multitrack Editor
• The Multitrack Editor Effects Rack

 

Multitrack Session Editing

• Create a mixtape
• Mixing or exporting a collection of clips as a single file
• Merge clips into a single file
• Editing clip length
• Clip edits: Split, Trim, Volume
• Extend a clip via looping
• Remix

 

Automation

• Clip automation
• Track automation

 

Video Soundtracks

• Multitrack session video
• Audition integration with Adobe Premiere Pro CC
• Automatic Speech Alignment

 

The Essential Sound Panel

• Automating tasks
• Assigning audio types
• Essential Sound panel presets

 

The Multitrack Mixer

• Audio Mixer basics

 

Creating Music with Sound Libraries

• Download Adobe sound effects
• Preparing
• Building a rhythm track
• Adding more percussion
• Adding melodic elements
• Using loops with different pitch and tempo
• Adding effects

 

Recording and Output in the Multitrack Editor

• Getting ready to record a track
• Setting up the metronome
• File management
• Recording a part in a track
• Recording an additional part (overdub)
• Punching over a mistake
• Composite recording
• Exporting a stereo mix of the song
• Exporting with Adobe Media Encoder

 

Mixing

• Testing your acoustics
• The mixing process

• Ability to create audio soundtracks.
• Produce original compositions using loops and waveforms.
• Learn to apply effects and different editing tools.
• Generate spot and foley effects in an application.
• Make your own jingles, pads and layers.
• Learn about various production and mastering tips.

• Video Editors
• Audio Editors