ted with how little support Audition and Premiere Pro have for it. For instance, support is limited to Mackie Control (MC) mode, the encoder knobs are limited to panning, and the buttons to their default functions, some of which don't work.

This device is relatively inexpensive and is extremely popular with Lightroom Classic users (using the midi2lr plugin). It is unfortunate that the developers couldn't invest a little bit of time to make this device awesome in Audition and Premiere Pro by creating one or more maps for it to make this and other control surfaces as useful as possible.

Though similarly limited in the default MC mode, Presonus' Capture One supports full MIDI mapping. I was able to switch the controller to MIDI mode and by adjusting the settings in the X-Touch editor and mapping them in Capture One, I was able to control 16 tracks of audio.

It shouldn't be difficult for Adobe to purchase the few common control surfaces out there and have its dev team create some default map options for them so that they work well in Premiere Pro and Audition (and Lightroom Classic).

For whatever reason, when I opened Audition 2020 today, a dialog box said "settings from Audition 12 have been found" and asked if I wanted to import them. I don't think I ever used Audition 12. I use Audition 2020 and whatever was immediately prior to that (CC I think).

So I clicked "no," do not import my settings from Audition 12. Then when the application finished opening, many of my preference settings were reset to defaults. My key commands, display theme, and hardware settings were gone.

I've spent a couple hours replicating the ones I need to work today, but it will take me much longer to do the rest, It's slowed my work down to a standstill.

I can't get the dialog choice back to import settings, and I'm not sure that would fix the problem anyway. WTH Adobe?

So whatever you did to ***** that up so badly, don't do it. Audition is a premium product, but it sure doesn't feel like one today. I don't pay too much attention to that subscription fee going out the door every month, but today worth about negative year's worth of fees.

Also, your help is terrible.

The way Audition handles monitoring output settings in my MacBook Pro (2020) is simply atrocious. If I'm editing and I leave the program momentarily, upon returning to edit, any number of changes have happened.

1 - Most of the time all the settings are correct in Preferences/Audio Hardware. It's just there is no sound and I have to re-choose the output and then it works again. That only gets mild cussing.

2 - Another effect is that suddenly the Mac's volume control stops working with Audition. Audition plays back but the sound cannot be turned up or turned down. That requires re-entering the settings in Audition preferences.

3 - Still another effect is the Channel Mapping has been switched to unavailable.

One of these three things happens EVERY TIME I go to another screen in my Mac, like to check email, and return. Extremely frustrating.

Currently when using keystroke M to add markers, Audition names the new marker with the prefix specified in the Marker Prefix field in Preferences and a 2 cipher number is assigned sequentially with no user control.

The requested upgrades would be:

1) Allow users to set/reset starting number during a session, regardless of existing markers

2) If user sets a new Marker, then immediately renames it in the Marker panel, a pop dialog box could then prompt user if new markers should be named with the same prefix (this prompt could have a “Do not show me again” checkbox so this behavior could be silenced.

This will save the user from opening preferences multiple times in a session to adjust track name prefixes to identify particular parts.

3) Allow user to rename all prefixes of a group of selected makers with one edit by selecting all the markers to be changed and edit the prefixes as a group, while leaving the number suffixes alone.

4) Similar to 3) above, Allow user to rename all numeric suffixes of a group of selected makers with one edit by selecting all the markers to be changed and edit the suffixes as a group, e.g. user sets starting number and have program number selected markers sequentially.

Importing user preferences and effects does not happen. This is the fourth time I have experienced this issue and with the latest update (13.0.1.35) it is happened again.

When I chose to update Audition from 13.0 to 13.0.1, I made sure the "import preferences" option box was checked, along with the other option box (I can't remember know, "save something/or other") option box and as well. The 13.0 preference folder was in it's correct file path and I expected it to be used for the upgrade.

However, at the end of the installation process, a dialogue box popped up saying the "preference folder 12.0 has been found. Do you want to import these preferences?"

No, of course not, I wanted it to import from the newer 13.0 preference folder, so I clicked "No".

No additional preference folders were offered and Audition opened and all of my preferences, workspaces, etc., were lost. (Just to be clear, when I updated from 12.?? to 13.0, I chose "Yes" when asked if I wanted to use the 12.0 preference folder and those preferences were not transferred over. I called and left a report with the help desk, ticket #ADB-9791065-X0H8.

Since the earliest days, I always keep a backup of my preference folder and update it before I upgrade, so I was able to restore my preferences and effects.

However, this begs the question, why are the updates pulling preferences from the wrong folder? I stated above, this is the fourth time this error has happened. It happened when I updated from 11 to 12.0 to 12.1, and the next iteration, and again from 12.? to 13.0. The upgrade finds the "Oldest" preference folder (in my case 11 and 12.0) and uses that as the reference file. Please check into this.

Thanks,

Rhett