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.

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.

The audio got scrambled up after a recording a voice over in the Waveform Editor. Maybe this happened after a crash (and "restore"), maybe not. Basically I was adding to the existing recording, regularly also deleting parts.

What happens is that throughout the file, parts of audio are repeated like a hanging CD, at that point overwriting the original audio.

The reason I recorded in the waveform editor was so I didn't have to make a session for only a voice over. That is what I have used the Waveform editor for a lot, for many years, and in my opinion was the power of Audition.

The last updates have made Audition so unstable and buggy that I will not use it again. Cool Edit 1.0 was more stable... Now I have to do most of it again (IN PRO TOOLS)

The essence, recording and editing audio, is what Audition seems to fail in horribly lately.

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.

Premiere Pro has a few different audio crossfades: Constant Power (the default), Constant Gain, and Exponential Fade.

The algorithm used to crossfade audio in Audition's "Mix Paste" seems similar to Constant Gain, but it would be much more useful to us if we could get something closer to Constant Power

Steps to hear how this issue affects audio:

1. Open a file with consistent noise (ambient room tone, waterfall; any noise that has mostly consistent amplitude throughout) or create a new file and generate some noise
2. Copy a portion of the noise
3. Mix paste this copied noise atop a different section of the same file with a crossfade duration (somewhere between 0.2 and 0.6s for this example would be best)
4. Notice the dips in amplitude during this crossfade

Bringing this same noise file into Premiere Pro and following the same steps, but using Constant Power fades, you shouldn't be able to detect any change in audio amplitude.

This current mix paste crossfade result makes this feature significantly less useful for me and my team because of those unnatural, unwanted dips in volume/amplitude.