Adobe Audition Reviews: 4.4/5 — Solid Choice

I'm primarily working in Premiere when I'm editing and audition is just a click away right off the timeline. Actually, I rarely launch Audition directly; it's most powerful as an integrated supplement to PP. That said, I primarily use Au to fix audio pops, which it does really nicely, but doesn't perform as well as protools or even RX3. It lacks the file handling that Avid touts, but it's easy to see that in the near future Adobe will have all the integrated apps under one roof and that will solve the file handling issues between PP, PS, AE, AI, AU, etc. It's only a matter of time.

I'm surprised that the filetypes Adobe is using is an updated saved copy of the audio file after I make edits in it through PP. Instead of an additional XML file, the the duplication can result in quickly eating up disk space, depending on your audio files.

PP's audio plug ins and audio editing interface (the effects manager) doesn't cut it

I like the ease of use of Audition, I tried it because it was a part of the adobe suite which is something I use. What I like best about Audition is the interface, it's very customizable once you get the hang of it.

Audition personally didn't wow me too much when I used it. It crashes from time to time.. I didn't find it as feature filled as pro tools as a industry standard. the learning curve felt a bit high, especially since i use other audio editors. I also felt the save feature was limited, and installing hardware to use with the application was a bit difficult. A lot of times as well Audtion would loose wavforms saved into sessions when I reoped them. some takes were just missing that I didn't move.

Audition was really just an affordable option for when I need to record some music. I wouldn't call myself particularly impressed with the application, moreso than it's reliable enough to get the job done and i'm used to it.

Audition allows me to improve the audio quality for my podcast. I most often use the match loudness feature and dynamic processing. There are so many other features than this though. My use barely scratches the surface.

Unfortunately Adobe Audition is not at all intuitive to use. As a tech savvy person, there were basic functions that I couldn't figure out and required me to search up tutorials.

Often the audio from my guests has a lot of background noise. Audition allows me to clean this up so the recording sounds professional.

I most like Adobe Illustrator for its recent improvements but feels the collective whole is overpriced. Photoshop used to be a favorite but now feels clunky and less user friendly. Still not sure what Adobe is trying to accomplish with two version of Lightrooom -- feels like they've divided product teams across two products that each feel not well supported lately.

The price keeps going up and each year I feel like I'm getting less value from it. I'd prefer either more specific, more affordable bundles or more affordable a la carte options.

My business -- creating images, books, audio books.

Adobe Audition works great with noisy audio where you need to reduce background noise, reverb, rumble etc. It also has a ton of other features, but it still needs time to get around them as it is confusing to use.

The downsides of Audition are the confusing user interface and the lack of structure in categorizing the features. I want a version with better UX and more suited for live podcast recording to minimize other software use.

Noise reduction. As my podcast setup is not so great, I use this software to improve the audio experience for the listeners. It certainly helped improve the quality of my work.

I've been using Audition since it was Audacity, a program bought by Adobe to create Audition. It's great for specific track mixing and audio cleanup. When you're doing audio-focused items like making songs, doing an audio track for a presentation, and so forth. It's pretty powerful, but like many Adobe programs, you can choose to explore a billion sub-menus for granulart editing, or keep a simple layout.

Adobe, being Adobe, tries to force all of their software to cling to each other so you feel compelled to get the whole suite. As an example, Premiere Pro can do 80% of the audio functions of Audition, yet they stunt it slightly, so you need Audition in your suite. I understand this is more an assessment of Adobe's ecosystem than Audition itself, but it does impact things when you're working with it. Most of my work is video work, so I only dabble in Audition occasionally, having to jump into it when there's a limitation on Premiere. Also, Audition is not a miracle worker - people expect it to make flawless audio from windy, noisy, crosstalk, or garbled conditions, and it just cannot do that. Garbage in, Garbage out still applies.

Cleanup of audio when it's not perfect but reasonably good. By design, audio segments that get folded into Premiere video files sometimes get some cleanup from it.

I like the features and ease of use of Adobe Audition .. but.. see below...

Audition + Lenovo X1 Carbon laptop + Apollo x8p = buzz on recording (Lenovo since it stopped when I bought the Macbook Pro) Audition + Macbook Pro (M1 Chip) + Apollo x8p = Audition crashes and won't record GarageBand + Macbook Pro (M1 Chip) + Apollo x8P = works (but not a fan of GarageBand yet anyways) Audition needs more time to get working with the new Macbook chip. Keeps crashing and won't record.

Ease of use and combined with other Adobe products would help with development of training materials, once it works with the new Macbook that is.

It complements the other Adobe Creative Clouds apps. You can easily record really long recordings in multitrack. Applying effect is the fastest I have ever seen on any editing software. Compressing a 2 hours long WAV stereo file takes less than a minute.

It's sometimes hard to go through all the features that it has. It's not the most organized and good looking apps. Not too many options for customizations.

We are recording long podcast sessions for our church and it works well with long recording and external audio interfaces.

I like that it's really easy to cut and paste audio and simple to use for someone who doesn't even know much about sound. It can also export in a wide range of formats to make it simple to put into Premiere or AE

It can be buggy. It can be a small learning curve when first using and look more intimidating that it actually is.

Recording voiceovers and optimizing them for use in videos

It's part of the Adobe Creative Cloud family of apps

Steep (comparatively) learning curve although it does a good job of removing unwanted noise from audio that has been pulled from video footage.

Editing audio from video shoots. Probably I need to have a full course on how to use this software to its full extent. Unfortunately, there are not enough hours in the day.

Audition provided a very easy to use platform to work with both sound and video.

In some cases the program was a bit too simplistic and did not allow ultimate flexibility.

I am using the program to edit and mix audio for a film intended to educate about the dangers of smoking. The benefits were the easy to use interface.

The possibilities to learn how to perfect my audio more and more are endless. The options and features are only limited by my ability to learn how to use every feature in Audition. I enjoy the many templates I have found that give me a great headstart in Audition and allow me to save some time starting projects.

As with quite a few Adobe desktop products, there is a LARGE learning curve for using Audition. It is not for the casual audio editor but it is worth learning - especially if you use it for podcast editing like me. Templates help a lot but you still need to take the time to learn the product. I dont really care for the fact that there is no "beginner's setup or layout" to help beginning users not to feel so overwhelmed when starting from scratch.

Audition is a great addition to my Adobe CC arsenal and makes me feel like I have a well rounded suite of solutions to help with my podcast from visual to audio and video. It helps me solve the problem of having to hire a sound-A/V professional that will charge me by the hour to do the same work that I can do for myself with a little bit of self-training. I also like the fact that it provides me with the ability to control the quality and value of the audio I create - customizing it to the Nth degree if I wish or keeping it raw sounding and causal.

So many useful tools and settings. Makes fixing audio issues less stressful. I love the connectivity to adobe premiere. I can easily edit an audio track and override the original one right in my timeline. I like that this program allowes multiple settings/tweaks to be applied to a file.

It has a lot of areas to explore so like any great program a learning curve will be found. It takes a while to learn what each effect or setting does to your audio file,

As mentioned I loved the ease it provides with transferring the edited audio right to another program such as Adobe Premiere, makes post production so much faster.

Love the simplicity of the software, especially easy to record high quality audio. I use it to remove "noise" in my audio files (interviews).

It's a double edged sword, I also dislike how simple it is sometimes and I've found better software at noise reduction.

Improving my audio quality for video content.

The best part about Adobe audition is how it really caters to sound designers and people who create podcasts. Their are a lot of audio recording programs out there, but most are specifically designed to record music on them. This is an amazing program for anyone familiar with Adobe products (Similar functions and very compatible)

The biggest problem I have with this program is that it requires you too pay a monthly subscription. I'm not sure I would be able to justify paying for a program that I may not even use once a month. At $20 a month you end up spending $240 a year!

I love how compatible this program is with the other Adobe products. I'm a video editor by trade and when I edit using Adobe Premiere I make sure to use this for lots of audio edits.

SImple to use, quick exports, good at cleaning audio

Quick Keys/navigation is clumsy. Occasionally tracks lose ability to record arm

We record VO for our commercials. We also use it to clean audio up as it gives us more options than Premiere

Audition is not low-end audio software, but isn't polished enough to appeal to most professional music producers. It seems to work best for hobbyists and part-time producers. I also think that Audition's features make it better for podcasting and radio than music. Cleaning up audio with small amounts of noise is very easy with the noise reduction tool. It is capable of multi-track recording and editing, but Apple's Logic Pro surpasses Audition when it comes to multi-track editing and mixing.

The layout is way too busy and isn't easy to navigate. It's usable, but does not feel anywhere near as natural as other Adobe programs like Illustrator and Photoshop. The controls are difficult to manipulate, and I find that I take way too long to get things just right. It's not intuitive, and I feel that I'm missing a lot of features because I can't figure out how to get to them.

I use it occasionally for editing tracks to be used on video content for custom-built websites. Because I only occasionally create audio / visual content for websites, I need software that is easy to use with a short learning curve and I have not found that with this software. It does have some tools, like the noise reduction tool, which are useful, but is harder to learn than Logic Pro and has fewer useful features in my opinion.

High performance in professional options for editing, enhancing and restoring audio.

There are lots of unnecessary settings. It is also not at all user-friendly or for the average audio editor. Thus it is something that I think is best kept at a premium for audio pros only, but will never be widely used as it is.

At this point, I only use Adobe Audition when I need something very specific in enhancing or restoring some audio. But that is becoming rarer as other much more user-friendly apps are coming along and offering everything Audition does, but in a way that is much easier for the user to make use of.

Easily compatible with other adobe programs like premiere and after effects, but there are better audio editing systems out there.

Not as easy to use or as powerful as other programs like Pro Tools or Logic.

You can easily edit an audio clip straight from your Premiere project into Adobe Audition, rather than having to go back and forth between other audio softwares

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