Creating a brand new application for Podcasters would be great because Audition doesn't make it easy.

Some features that would be great include mixing the following apps and features together:
1) alitu.com - The Adobe Rush equivalent of Audition
2) headliner.app - to create audiograms for social media of any length
3) Being able to rename clips of audio from a full podcast timeline so that it is easier to make highlights clips for social media.
4) If you need to create, for example, a 10-minute audiogram for social media, the AI would be able to auto-fit your clips in the most intelligent way in order to hit your time target. You could prioritise each clip from 1 - 10 and the software should be able to create the optimal highlights episode itself
5) Automatically create a stero track from a mono track recorded on an iPhone or a USB microphone

I’ll just post a (slightly modified for context) message that I sent to Jason Levine as an open letter since there is literally no information or outreach about this out there.

TL;DR, I’m very close to switching DAWs (likely Pro Tools) even though I don’t want to. Between this and a lack of a real strip silence feature that’s also usable in the nondestructive environment, and which doesn’t force me to ripple my track and/or export to hundreds of useless markers, it’s becoming less and less viable to continue editing in Audition.

Hi Jason,

Please forgive me for contacting you directly. I’ve exhausted all other search options to the extent my capabilities allow, including emailing Adobe support to no avail.

I’ve got a 2019 16” MacBook Pro with 8GB 5500M and a 2018 Mac mini connected to a 16GB Vega 64 eGPU. The former is the 8-core i9 with 32GB RAM. The latter is a 6-Core i7 with 32GB RAM.

I’m running simple multitrack podcast recording and editing sessions in the latest version of Audition. The MBP is used primarily for editing, the mini is what we normally use for recording. We’re recording at 48/32 in mono. I typically apply plugins from iZotope and Waves. My effects chain is usually 7-8 items long per track. Usually 2-4 tracks. One track per individual on the podcast. They’re recording at same rates (at worst, 44.1/16, but assume it’s usually 48/32).

After doing my initial edit I usually do a mixdown to a single WAV at the same rates. This way I can deal with a single track for fine-tuning my pacing, using markers to denote chapters, and mastering to yet another WAV. This is my final, which I later encode (including artwork, links, chapters) to MP3 (160Kbps, mono) in a phenomenal little app by Marco Arment called Forecast (which uses all 8 or 6 cores just beautifully).

My biggest issue is the first mixdown on either device. I’ve noticed on iStat Menus that on either computer only a single CPU core will fire up. On the 16” MBP, it doesn’t even look at the discrete GPU. It stays on the Intel the whole time (even with energy settings that force the discreet GPU on adapter power). On the Mac mini, the eGPU (which I’ve set in macOS to specifically use with Audition, Premiere, Lightroom, etc.) fires up to full bore, but still doesn’t seem fully leveraged. On the MBP a typical 70-80 minute show with two tracks will take over an hour to mix down. On the mini, even with Audition clearly leveraging the eGPU (to what extent or why, I do not know as I thought a mixdown of audio only would be mostly processor intensive), it still takes about 50-60 minutes. In fact, I suspect the difference is more about slightly better thermal performance than the eGPU.

Why isn’t Audition leveraging more of the processor cores? It seems like Creative Cloud applications for 2020 made fairly good leaps in leveraging discrete GPUs in certain apps, even if non-workstation class, but multicore processors are seriously underused across the entire creative suite. Is it just me? Am I missing a setting? It just seems like this stuff should be so much faster. As I take on more client editing work this becomes a real issue. I can use my Mac mini as a passive little render farm so I can free up my MBP, but it’s still taking that hour.

Do you have any insight on this?

I genuinely appreciate your time and once again apologize for reaching out via this forum.

Best,

Gilbert Tang

Ever since upgrading to AA 2019, none of the audio files or sessions will play within dropbox as they did before in 2018. I've gone thru this countless times with support and we can't seem to get to the root of the problem. Nothing has changed on my system except for the 2019 install. How can I get my adobe audio files and sessions to open and play within dropbox as I have been doing for the last 5 years?

Every other file opens. The audio even plays with windows media player within dropbox but nothing opens via adobe audition. I must move each folder to the desktop in order to work on it.

Thanks - I hope there is a fix for this Adobe Audition 2019 / Dropbox / Windows 10 Pro issue.

In every other piece of professional audio software I am aware of, I can share effect presets with others by finding the file, such as "giant_reverb.pst" etc., and sending to someone else who drops it in the same place on their computer, or imports, or whatever.

In Audition 2018, these seem to be stored in a big single XML file. Can this really be true? Is there no way to share? I just spent all day creating presets to share with a co-worker, but now I find there is no way to share just the relevant presets without sharing the rest.

This is a stunning omission IMO, and not realistic for a product that could be used by multiple people in a company, studio, band, etc.

If I have a file that's 50 minutes long and place it in a track, then end up only using 5 minutes of it (whether cut with razor or trimming by moving the ends of the clip), I'd like to be able to tell Audition to make a new audio file that includes only the part I'm using, save it (allowing me to name it if I want), and place it in the mix instead of the long one, keeping all keyframes, effects, etc. As it is now I have to try to find that exact portion of the file in the waveform editor, save a new file, put it in multitrack and then redo any keyframes.

I don't know if it's already possible (I don't think so).

PROBLEM:

In the Waveforms view, I set my beautiful panels on the right and left with the sound wave in the center. I saved the Preset, all beautiful all functional.

I move to the Multitrack view and have the same panels, in the same arrangement on the right on the Left etc.
Yes, but now the panels on the right give a lot of trouble to the view and to the assembly on the multitrack of the various tracks ... setting and when I return to the multitrack the same thing ... HIGHLY BAD and FRUSTRATING !!!

I PROPOSE:

1. Is it possible to save in the same NAME as the Layout preset the separate settings one for the Waveforms view and one for when moving in the multitrack ?? (same preset different views)




2. Is it possible to review the settings of the panels of the various windows?
   Too many panels to keep open and always little space ... and if you would adopt a Responsive panel setting, and with a small interface with opening buttons superimposed on the Waveform or multitrack (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign style) ??




3. Is it possible to have panels that adapt themselves to vertical space? and that you don't always (always) have to resize them manually. you spend more time moving the panels every time you do the job.

Often I'm editing tutorials with many cuts that need a quick fade in/out at the top and bottom of each clip to avoid discontinuity pops. I would love to be able to apply a fade in/out to each one by a variable number of milliseconds and shape to speed up my audio editing. At the moment I can make a custom keyboard shortcut for the fade in and a separate one for the fade out, but you can't adjust the amount of time the fade takes, so it's always too long of a fade and I have to adjust it manually anyway, so it's not much of a shortcut.

(unless you have a 4k monitor in full resolution), Audition has many panels to keep under control or easy to consult and on full HD 1920x1080 monitors the space is always too small ... and the panels always too many, many to keep open ...
I'd like a more fluid management, collapsible panels like photoshop (up to icons only), groups of panels that collapse at the bottom or top snap, and no that every time you have to pull them up and down manually then always change the appearance and the size of the panels, how can this be done?

like being able to insert a series of less used panels on the right and collapsing them to an icon to save space, and with a click reposition them and take them out, ditto with the panels on the left ...
I believe that better management of panels is due to Adobe