Adobe Audition CC Tutorial - Audition Made Easy

Explore the basic characteristics of sound through vibrations, waveforms, and frequency, observe a 440 Hz tone, and learn octave shifts and amplitude in the multitrack editor of Adobe Audition.

Explore how complex sound waves reveal harmonics and overtones that enrich voice and instrument timbre, visible in spectral frequency displays and live examples from vibraphone, piano, and bass.

Explore how sound waves interact when mixing voices, instruments, and chords in Adobe Audition, and see how adding notes affects decibel levels, waveforms, and overall mix.

Explain the difference between analog and digital audio, highlighting digital as discrete samples with bit depth and sample rate that shape noise and pitch.

Explore the Adobe Audition workflow from importing audio to multi-track mixing and exporting. Learn destructive versus nondestructive editing, applying effects, trimming, fading, and track panning.

Explore the Adobe Audition workspace, including frames and panels, learn the reference-based files and editor panels, switch between multi-track and waveform views, and customize or reset your workspace.

Customize the Audition workspace by resizing panels, dragging to create or move frames, and using floating panels for a dual-monitor workflow; save, reset, and delete workspaces as needed.

Explore how to import and open audio in Adobe Audition CC, create links to your files in the files panel, and understand the difference between opening and importing.

Learn to import audio into audition using the open, append, and insert commands in a multi-track session, placing files at the current time indicator across tracks.

Learn to extract audio from a cd in adobe audition cc by choosing extract audio from cd, loading track names from a cd db, and saving final files.

Master the media browser in Adobe Audition CC to quickly import, open, or insert files into a multi-track session, preview sample rate, bit depth, and channels, and manage shortcuts.

View clip properties in the files panel, including sample rate, channels, and bit depth, and learn how a video’s audio splits into temporary file and how multi-track session properties differ.

Learn to set up recording hardware in Adobe Audition by configuring audio hardware preferences, selecting input/output devices, and adjusting latency, sample rate, and channel mapping.

Learn to record in the waveform view of Adobe Audition CC, adjust input levels on Windows or Mac, and save new audio files with proper sample rate and bit depth.

Learn four ways to record in a multi-track session: a single file on one track, overwrite, multi-channel to separate tracks, and recording into an existing session with monitoring.

Master playing and monitoring audio in audition using transport controls, markers, and shortcuts (spacebar, j, k, l, m) to navigate, scrub, and loop within multi-track sessions.

View audio in three modes—waveform view, spectral frequency display, and spectral pitch display—using the editor panel, with zoom and shortcut controls for precise analysis.

Master time range selection in the waveform view to edit, adjust volume, or apply effects using marquee, lasso, and paintbrush tools with zoom and snapping.

Enable snapping to the time ruler and markers for precise selections, then use fine and coarse divisions and zero crossings to edit frames smoothly and avoid clicks.

Learn to delete portions and crop clips in Adobe Audition CC by using markers, precise selections, and keyboard shortcuts to trim pauses and endings.

Learn how to cut, copy, and paste audio in Audition, use the clipboard with multiple clipboards, and apply mix paste with crossfades.

Adjust amplitude in Adobe Audition CC using the waveform view, safely raise or lower volume to avoid clipping, and apply fade in or fade out to segments or entire files.

Learn to silence sections and reverse audio in Adobe Audition CC. Select the region, apply silence via negative infinity or the silence effect, and use fade in/out for clean edits.

Learn how to work with video files that include audio in Audition, including importing via media browser, separating audio, inserting into a multi-track session, and editing audio alongside video.

Explore Adobe Audition CC effects, from vocal enhancer to multiband compressor, and apply them destructively to clips or non-destructively in a multi-track session via the effects rack.

Apply effects to individual files using the waveform editor and spectral views in Adobe Audition. Learn destructive versus non-destructive editing, options versus presets, and real-time previews.

Explore non-destructive adding of effects in a multitrack session by applying effects to tracks or individual clips via the effects rack, with presets and dry/wet control.

Explore amplitude and compression effects in Adobe Audition CC, including dynamics processing, multiband and single-band compressors, and the tube modeled compressor, with presets for vocal and instrument applications.

Examine six amplitude and compression effects in adobe audition cc, such as amplify, channel mixer, hard limiter, normalize, de-esser, and speech volume level, with practical clip-based applications.

Master amplitude and compression with envelope effects in Audition, using gain and fade envelopes and keyframes to shape clip volume in a nondestructive, multi-track workflow.

Explore delay and echo effects in Adobe Audition CC, including delay, analog delay, and echo, with controls for dry/wet, feedback, and stereo bounce.

Explore filter and equalizer effects in Adobe Audition CC, including graphic and parametric equalizers, notch and FFT filters, with practical adjustments and presets to shape bass, treble, and vocal presence.

Explore the scientific filter in Adobe Audition CC, its four types—Bessel, Butterworth, Chebyshev, and elliptical—and how precise curves shape frequencies for forensic and audio engineering.

Explore modulation effects: chorus, flanger, and phasor—built on delayed signals to thicken saxophone and vocal sounds. Learn to convert files to stereo, adjust intensity (wet/dry), and audition presets.

Explore and compare five reverb effects in Adobe Audition, including studio, convolution, regular, full, and surround reverb, and learn how impulse files, room size, and dry/wet settings shape space.

Explore five special effects in Adobe Audition CC tutorial, including vocal enhancer, distortion, guitar suite, mastering, and Doppler shift, with tips for applying in files or the effects rack.

Explore two stereo imagery effects in Adobe Audition: the center channel extractor for karaoke and the phase shifter, with notes on its limited practical use.

Explore the stereo expander in adobe audition cc to widen stereo imagery, adjust center and spread settings, and monitor phase with a phase analysis view.

Explore how to use VST and VSTO plugins in Adobe Audition, place them in folders, enable them in the plugin manager, and apply them in the effects rack.

Learn to visually identify and reduce noise in audio by using spectral frequency view to spot hum, hiss, clicks, and vinyl scratches, and apply noise reduction and auto heal.

Master a practical noise reduction strategy in adobe audition cc. Start by setting volume and amplitude, then clean broadband noise, fix clicks, and remove foreground and dynamic sounds.

Capture a noise print in Adobe Audition CC to reduce background noise, hiss, and hum with noise reduction and hiss reduction.

Learn how to use the click pop eliminator and clicker in Audition CC to reduce vinyl noise and clicks, followed by noise reduction and repair for clean speech and music.

Identify discrete noises in Adobe Audition using spectral frequency display and marquee selection. Apply auto heal and noise reduction with a noise print, plus crossfade to preserve music.

Learn how to use the sound remover effect in Adobe Audition CC to remove unwanted sounds while preserving the music and dialogue, using semi supervised source separation.

Master adaptive noise reduction and de-hummer techniques in Adobe Audition, compare automatic vs manual noise reduction, and learn why the notch filter better removes hum frequencies than the hummer.

Explore specialized noise repair techniques in Adobe Audition CC, from audience noise removal and cough repair with noise print, markers, and crossfades, to mix paste and sustain-note edits.

Explore the loudness radar meter in Adobe Audition CC, and learn how loudness differs from volume when aligning tracks for broadcast. Understand international loudness standards and the minus 24 target.

Diagnose and fix phase issues in audio with Audition's phase meter and phase analysis panel. Implement automatic phase correction, timing alignment, and balance adjustments for in-phase stereo tracks.

Examine amplitude statistics and frequency analysis panels in adobe audition cc, scan files, detect clipping and DC offset, then use a 10-band equalizer to tailor bass and stereo balance.

Learn to use the diagnostics effects in Adobe Audition CC to detect silence, set thresholds (38 decibels, 140 milliseconds), and delete silence or mark audio for cleaner results.

Use the DeClipper in Audition to diagnose and repair clipped audio, scan for flat tops, apply settings to smooth waveforms, and note how 32-bit depth helps prevent clipping.

Learn to examine and adjust pitch in Adobe Audition CC using the spectral pitch display, the blue line representing the predominant pitch, and manual pitch correction for vocal tuning.

Discover how automatic pitch correction in Adobe Audition works as a real-time effect on clips and multi-track sessions, with key, attack, sensitivity, calibration, and limits versus manual pitch correction.

Master manual pitch correction in Adobe Audition CC to fix vocal pitch using the pitch envelope and keyframes. Apply spline curves in waveform view for smooth, precise adjustments.

Discover how to use the stretch and pitch effect to shrink or expand a clip in audition, preserving speech characteristics with isotope and audition options.

Explore Adobe Audition's pitch bender and pitch shifter, compare destructive time and pitch changes with real-time, non-destructive shifting, and apply envelopes and keyframes in multi-track sessions.

Learn how clip time stretching in a multitrack session of Audition CC changes duration and pitch in real time or render mode, using per-clip properties and mono or polyphonic settings.