![]() ![]() While it is a shame to see missing features, it makes sense for Adobe to unify its audio development effort on a new and solid base. Most of these are likely to return in a future update. Gleaves lists the following as features which are not in this version: To some extent Audition in CS 5.5 is a new application, and not all the features of Audition 3 have made it across. Steinberg’s VST (Visual Studio Technology) is supported on both platforms. On the Mac it supports Core Audio and Apple AudioUnit effects, and on Windows ASIO, though there is no mention of WASAPI, the low-latency audio API in Windows Vista and Windows 7. The new Audition is optimised for multi-core systems and makes full use of background processing to improve productivity. So we’ve spent the past two years re-writing Audition from the ground-up, preserving or updating our core DSP, modernizing the code to take advantage of current hardware and operating system technology, and emphasizing increased productivity and speed with every feature. To Adobe’s credit, it did not give up on bringing Audition to Creative Suite but has spent two years re-writing Audition in cross-platform code: This enabled the team to provide value to the Suite, but the limitations of a playback engine crafted to handle large video files was not ideal for detailed audio production. As an audio editor was necessary in the suite package, we created Soundbooth which was a simple audio editor built on top of Premiere Pro’s media playback engine. The Audition team looked at the 15 years of legacy Windows code and were not confident the application could be ported quickly enough to satisfy the CS release schedule. ![]() The rationale for Soundbooth was not that suite users required a simpler audio editor, as Adobe had told me previously, but rather that porting Audition was too difficult: Now Adobe’s Durin Gleaves has posted in detail about the history of Soundbooth and Audition. Until now though, Audition was Windows-only, and Creative Suite is cross-platform for Mac and Windows. I found it difficult to understand why Adobe had two audio products, especially when Soundbooth is not as capable as Audition. Audition has always been an excellent product, even back in the days when it was Cool Edit from Syntrillium – Adobe acquired Syntrillium’s technology in 2003. ![]() The Soundbooth application has gone, replaced by a new version of Adobe Audition for both Mac and Windows. Adobe’s forthcoming Creative Suite 5.5 includes a significant change to its audio editing support. ![]()
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