Adobe Audition CS

"Adobe Audition CS5.5 delivers the professional tools you need to make your audio production easy"


Adobe® Audition® CS5.5 software delivers the professional tools you need to make your video and audio productions sound their best. Handle a wide range of audio production tasks efficiently, including recording, mixing, and sound restoration.

Features

Produce audio efficiently

Speed up production through a fast, flexible workflow with Adobe® Premiere® Pro software, OMF file exchange with other audio post tools, and XML project exchange with other NLEs in Adobe Audition® CS5.5 software. Mix for surround sound and multichannel audio natively.

• Native Mac OS support
Record, mix, edit, and master your audio with a powerful cross-platform audio toolset: Adobe Audition CS5.5 runs natively on Mac OS X v10.5 and v10.6 as well as Windows®.

• New high-performance audio engine
Experience greater speed throughout the audio production process with the new audio engine in Adobe Audition CS5.5, whether opening and saving files, processing multicore effects, or simultaneously editing multiple sessions.

• Roundtrip editing with Adobe Premiere Pro
Easily sweeten audio for video. Pass individual clips and multitrack mixes from Adobe Premiere® Pro CS5.5 software to Adobe Audition for editing, or send Adobe Premiere Pro sequences with a reference video to Adobe Audition for complete soundtrack creation.

• Project exchange with third-party NLEs and DAWs
Easily move sessions between Adobe Audition and Avid Pro Tools using built-in OMF import and export functions in Adobe Audition. Share files with other video NLEs via XML interchange.

Edit, sweeten, and restore audio

Quickly clean up and finalize audio for video, radio, TV, or film. Turn poor-quality production audio into great soundtracks using best-of-class noise reduction and sweetening tools. Get rid of hums, clicks, pops, and other unwanted noises.

• Powerful sweetening and restoration tools
Fix audio problems fast. From the Adaptive Noise Reduction tool and new diagnostics such as the DeClicker to the Audio Healing Paintbrush for fixing audio problems visually, Adobe Audition offers powerful features for perfecting production audio.

• Native audio effects
Improve performance with native support for audio effects. Effects added in Adobe Audition CS5.5 include a DeHummer, DeEsser, Speech Volume Leveler, and Surround Reverb for working with 5.1 surround projects.

• Waveform and spectral editing
Work in Waveform View and Spectral Display on Mac or Windows. Edit audio using the traditional Waveform View or the frequency-based Spectral Display that makes it easy to isolate and remove unwanted noise.

• Effects workflow enhancements
Edit and play audio while adjusting settings for multiple effects simultaneously in the new modeless effects racks. Experiment with different effect settings while making selections or edits in the Waveform Editor.

Design soundscapes

Mix multiple tracks containing dialogue, music, sound beds, and SFX to create vibrant soundscapes. Download royalty-free environmental sounds, Foley effects, and music that add emotion and nuance to your projects through Resource Central.

• Native 5.1 multichannel support
Edit multichannel files and mix your projects in 5.1 surround. Adobe Audition CS5.5 includes a Surround Panner in the Mixer View, as well as a new Surround Reverb effect and Amplify, a multichannel gain processor.

• Royalty-free content in Resource Central
Use the new Resource Central panel in Adobe Audition to access thousands of royalty-free sound effects, loops, and music beds that you can drag and drop directly into your creative projects.

• Multitrack mixing
Combine multiple tracks of dialogue, music beds, sound effects, and more to create evocative soundtracks and audio experiences. Split or combine clips, drag to copy them, and automate volume and pan on clips or entire tracks.

• Guitar Suite effects
Perfect your sound with analog-modeled guitar effects that can be used with guitars or other instruments.