When processing a highlighted section, that section is being playback. This is in my case not what i want. When editing a part of a sample, let's say the punch of a kick drum, the playback is about 50 ms and that sound like a machine gun. But without playback i can't hear what i'm doing. I would like to see a function where you can loop the whole sample for playback while also hearing the highlighted part your processing. In this way you can hear what your processing does to the whole sample. Then when you're happy with the result, the apply button should still only apply on what you've highlighted.

If there is a function like this, please let me know! If not, please implement.

(Using Audition built 12.1.3.10)

I've been working on a project for a few hours and so far this random bug has ruined my dialogue track three times.

I have all my dialogue laid down to one track sent over from Premiere. I bounce all the tracks to a new track. Do a master volume mix and some light editing. I'll move onto foley, ambience, etc. and then randomly my dialogue bounce track has tons of high and low frequencies removed. I have no effects applied to the clip or track--only volume automation. There's nothing to undo, remove, or change... it's just baked into the waveform and sounds terrible!

See attached photo for a picture of the waveform editor after the bug occurs.

To use the awesome Sound Remover effect, you must first carefully paint over the frequencies that make up the sound you want to learn and remove. The Paintbrush Tool is the tool to use for this, but it’s so painful to use it’s discouraging,

For instance, if you carefully paint over all of what you want (if you first go into System Preferences and set Mouse Tracking Speed to the slowest setting), then when doing the last little bit your mouse button sensor “bounces” and is detected as a double-click, it immediately selects the entire view and you lose your carefully selected Paintbrush selection that was in progress with no way to recover it since there is no Undo / Redo for selection operations (only for things that actually change the sound), nor can you save a selection (not the Sound Model once learned, but the actual SELECTION) so that it could be retrieved again.

Proposed improvements:

• When in Paintbrush Selection mode, the double-click-to-select-entire-view shortcut should be DISABLED (you should probably also do this for Lasso Selection).

• When in Paintbrush Selection mode, the regular Undo / Redo shortcuts apply to the SELECTION operations.

• Get rid of holding [Shift] to add to the Paintbrush selection. That should be the DEFAULT. If you want to start over, you should use the above Undo instead. Rather than doing Add To Paintbrush, [Shift] can have another purpose more in line with what it does with other of your products such as Photoshop: it should CONSTRAIN the painting to horizontal or vertical, since what you’re trying to select is often frequencies (horizontal) and things like clicks or clunks (vertical).

• Ability to load a Saved Sound Model (.srm) file and get back the Paintbrush Selection used to make it, if loaded into the same sound file from which it was made.

Maybe this should be a separate feature request since it’s not UX related, but Sound Remover itself desperately needs an analogue to the Noise Reduction’s “Output Noise Only” checkbox so that we can listen to just what’s being removed. Or, maybe we actually want to isolate and keep the painted sound, not remove it (great for forensic work, for instance).

It would be great to have more functionality in Waveform editing. I would like to be able to add an effect, like EQ or Reverb to a section, but be able to fade that effect in or easily adjust the point at which it happens. Sound Forge (windows) has a great way of doing this.
For example, in Sound Forge if you want to add EQ or any effect for say 5 seconds of a file, you highlight the area you want to effect, and in the window where you adjust the EQ/effect/paste etc there is an option for advanced settings, where you can adjust the start and end points of the effect, as well as the wet/dry mix and fade in and out times. It also works for mix/paste.
I know you can achieve this in multitrack editing, but it requires more time and steps.
Please, and thank you!