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!

This used to work correctly. I can't find a preference for it. If it is a bug, please address it soon --- it has completely broken my workflow. Thanks!

To reproduce:
1. Open two audio files.
2. In file one, select a range in the waveform editor (e.g. between 1.0-1.5 seconds)
3. Double click on file two. Note that same range (e.g. 1.0-1.5 seconds) is selected in it. Now select a different range (e.g. 0.5-1.0 seconds)
4. Double click on file one. Note that new range (e.g. 0.5-1.0 seconds) is now selected in file one (not the original 1.0-1.5 seconds.)
5. Now in file one, crop the file to that selection.
6. Double click on file two etc and note that the entire view is zoomed to the duration of the file you just cropped (e.g. 0.5 seconds)

Expected behavior:
1. Open two audio files.
2. In file one, select a range in the waveform editor (e.g. between 1.0-1.5 seconds)
3. Double click on file two. Note that NO RANGE is selected. Now select a different range than in the first file (e.g. 0.5-1.0 seconds)
4. Double click on file one. Note that ORIGINAL range (1.0-1.5 seconds) is still selected in file one (not the new 0.5-1.0 seconds you just selected in file two)
5. Now in file one, crop the file to that selection.
6. Double click on file two etc and note that the view and selection range are still the same as they were when you were last in file two.

This makes working with multiple files very frustrating. As a pro audio user, I expect to be able go back and forth between multiple files with a unique selection persisting from one file to the next. Now every time I change which file I'm working on, I lose my place from when I had selected it last.

Computer: MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017) 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3
System: 10.13.6 (17G65)
Adobe Audition version: 11.1.0.184

Using the Spot Healing Brush Tool tends to leave holes that are quieter than the surrounding audio, which is rarely what we'd want. The only time the tool truly works well is if you've recorded audio in a perfect environment with no audible noise floor. That's not how the real world typically works, though.

Just to visualize what I mean, try this:
- Effects > Generate > Noise and Apply
- Use the Spot Healing Brush Tool above the 1.5k range
- notice that you're leaving holes of quietness behind wherever you paint

It would be incredible if the algorithm paid more attention to the amplitude of surrounding audio and didn't leave such noticeable visible/audible gaps behind!

The current workaround is to use the Paintbrush Selection Tool with a low opacity (50) and use Auto Heal instead. But that's an extra step that I wouldn't have to do if the Spot Healing Brush Tool was enhanced.

I would like to be able to see my "Favorites" just like I can see my Presets, so I can see what they actually do; in some cases, it was a while ago that I set them up so I don't t always remember. I know I can save Favorites as presets (painfully, extra work; it would be cool to have a checkbox that would let me optionally save in both places), but I don't use them the same way. I use my Presets for settings I'll want for a long time, and Favorites for effects I either use very frequently (often also saved as a Preset) and for effects specific to a project (eg vocalist eq). Sometimes I find I like a project Favorite effect well enough to keep it as a Preset, but I can't. So, please make these visible.

This is a great feature that we used to have on other wave editors back in the 90s.

When you're selecting a waveform and you drag the mouse below the view (the pink line in the screenshot) the selection of the waveform goes till the end.
On the contrary, if you're selecting and you move the mouse above the viewport, the selection goes to the beginning.

The selection is then performed on mouse up if the cursor stays outside.

This interaction speeds up a lot of operations that involve selecting the beginning or the end without the need of zooming.

NOTE: this is the same behavior of text selection on a single line text input when pressing SHIFT and Arrow key Up and Down.