I've been using Audition with no issues until this week.
Now, I have had dozens of instances of Audition crashing to a point where it is almost unusable.
I edit a podcast and the crash continuously occurs when I go into a specific track in Waveform, make changes to EQ, Compression, Gate in the Effects Rack, apply it and then return to Multitrack.
Once I return Audition shuts down completely and leaves me with the attached Error message. If I can't find a solution to this soon I'll be forced to look for alternative software as I'm losing valuable time with this issue.

Below is the Log Files for the crash:

Process: Adobe Audition 2020 [61219]
Path: /Applications/Adobe Audition 2020/Adobe Audition 2020.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Audition 2020
Identifier: com.adobe.Audition
Version: 13.0.8 (13.0.8.43)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: Adobe Audition 2020 [61219]
User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2020-08-24 12:11:49.128 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.15.6 (19G73)
Report Version: 12
Bridge OS Version: 4.6 (17P6065)
Anonymous UUID: CAC9A62B-0419-498A-BF32-C343844FF856

Sleep/Wake UUID: EE6ECB65-381D-43FE-BF2A-9A36B42C6A8B

Time Awake Since Boot: 22000 seconds
Time Since Wake: 1900 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS at 0x00000000000000f8
Exception Note: EXCCORPSENOTIFY

Termination Signal: Segmentation fault: 11
Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
Terminating Process: Adobe Audition 2020 [61219]

And attached are my System Info and the Error Message.

The operating system (w10 home), correctly updated. The sound card (Realtek High Definition Audio) correctly installed. The graphics card (GTX 1060) correctly installed.
The operating system correctly plays the native audio clips. Other programs play audio / video tracks smoothly (Audition).
The only program that is unable to output sound is Premiere Pro V14.3. With this program I am deaf. The software plays the clips (bars and tone) without problem, the level meter moves correctly. The program can export the clip successfully. The playback of the clip exported from windows media player, or VLC, is correct.

Note: Edit menu / preferences / audio hardware ... correctly configured. (I attach a photo)

Please, someone tell me what is happening!

Thank you.

Summary: Audition is frequently and randomly crashing. I'm working on a podcast which uses a lot of movie clips and a few different interview tracks. A lot of the video files are mp4s, but they seem to be generating new wav files fine. My Conformed Files folder is huge tho. It was working fine for about a month and then it started to crash on me. Now it's happening all the time and I can't figure out why!

I've reached out to Adobe support twice: once through chat and one phone call. Nothing has worked. So far I have done all of the following trouble shooting steps: reset preferences, trashed preferences, restarted machine, updated OS, updated audition, uninstalled/re-installed audition, cleaned media cache, different external hardrives, and tried on a different computer and a different user and still crashing.

All other adobe software is working fine and stable.

Here's more technical info:

macOS Mojave (10.14.6)

Mac Pro (Late 2013), 3.5 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5

32 GB Memory, AMD FirePro D500 3 GB

Adobe Audition 2020 (13.0.2)

Dear Developers,

Today, I have experienced that over 70 .wav files created using Audition under macOS 10.14.6 are not loaded in python. The code I have used is <paulstretchstereo.py> under <https://github.com/paulnasca/paulstretchpython>.

After converting those files by using RX7 or by using Audacity, python could load the files.

Why does it happen?

The following is the error message from python:

stretch amount = 8.04
window size = 0.25 seconds
/Users/prko/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scipy/io/wavfile.py:273: WavFileWarning: Chunk (non-data) not understood, skipping it.
WavFileWarning)
Error loading wav: shortpercussivelikeJG3GA.wav
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/prko/paulstretchpython/paulstretch_stereo.py", line 149, in <module>

(samplerate,smp)=load_wav(args[0])

TypeError: cannot unpack non-iterable NoneType object
Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch (Paulstretch) - Python version 20141220
by Nasca Octavian PAUL, Targu Mures, Romania

I am not sure if it is a bug or not, but it is very strange....

Thank you in advance for your work.

Repeatable error: I save 21 files as a batch, either to change format or to run a favorite. I know I want to do further processing, so I make sure "Close files upon completion" is unchecked, but I check the option to remove the files from the Batch Process panel (well, it merely says "panel," but in past versions it has always meant to remove the files from he Batch Process panel, not the Files panel). So far today, since updating Audition, all the files are closed at the end of the batch process, even though I did not ask Audition to close them. This makes me have to reopen the files, a waste of my time. And then Audition crashed!!! After restarting Audition I had to redo some work I'd already done to prepare for the second batch process that is also preparatory for the next step in my workflow. (Now I'm gnashing my teeth.)

3rd time: This time the filenames stayed in the Files window as I'd intended. But I wanted to add a couple files to the window, nd the Open dialog box does not show any files having been copied into the destination folder. This despite the directory (macOS Catalina) showing all of the files present and correctly named. The only way I could open the two file I wanted to add was to quit Audition and then reopen it. Now I see that the 3rd batch process concluded with Audition arbitrarily changing the bit depth of the files. I did not order any change to the file formatting as part of the Export Settings.

This begins to truly disturb me. I love how fast Audition is on my new laptop compared to the old one I recently drowned, but yipes. These failures in file management make me feel wary about the potential for technical failures that might cause me to have to redo work if my files are rejected after I complete my steps. A painful thought. I guess I'm going to have to make more backups than usual to make sure I can return to states that are viable until the new Audition 13 settles down.

Please correct this promptly. I suspect it's an easy fix on your end because it's a new error in the latest build. Unless, yipes, the crashing!

Thanks.

The "Move Playhead to End" command, using the END keyboard shortcut is supposed to remove the selection and move to the end of the file. This doesn't occur. The selection remains active and then the playhead is moved. This needs to be fixed.

There are many other instances where CC 19 makes things much more difficult and slows down workflows compared to Audition 3. This is one of them.

Others:
-2 save dialog boxes instead of one. (One for Audition, another if you need to browse to save to a different folder)
-Copy to New File now overrides the clipboard. Audition 3 the clipboard remained whatever was strictly Copied. Once you copy to a new file, you don't need it in the clipboard as well.
-Can't adjust the colors, and this version is WAAAY too dark, even on the lightest it allows. Pathetic that we are only "allowed" a range, instead of choosing our own. Fatigues the eyes being too dark.
-Hitting record should start recording a file with the previous attributes, instead of a dialog box popping up asking for a file name. I'll name it when I save it. The reason I hit record is because I need to record NOW. Not after I fiddle with a dialog box.
-Should be a preference to control the default save codec. I shouldn't have to reselect mp3 for every file. Let me set it once, and always save as mp3 unless I choose otherwise.
-Let me select a Default workspace, instead of just "Default". That defeats the purpose. I have a custom workspace. Let me open in that instead of "Default"

-Allow me to create folders in the File window. That would allow me to better organize files when editing.