Operation Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Getting started
- Chapter 2: Digital audio fundamentals
- Chapter 3: Workflow and workspace
- Chapter 4: Setting up Adobe Audition
- Chapter 5: Importing, recording, and playing audio
- Chapter 6: Editing audio files
- Displaying audio in Edit View
- Selecting audio
- Copying, cutting, pasting, and deleting audio
- Visually fading and changing amplitude
- Working with markers
- Creating and deleting silence
- Inverting and reversing audio
- Generating audio
- Analyzing phase, frequency, and amplitude
- Converting sample types
- Recovery and undo
- Chapter 7: Applying effects
- Chapter 8: Effects reference
- Amplitude and compression effects
- Delay and echo effects
- Filter and equalizer effects
- Modulation effects
- Restoration effects
- Reverb effects
- Special effects
- Stereo imagery effects
- Changing stereo imagery
- Binaural Auto-Panner effect (Edit View only)
- Center Channel Extractor effect
- Channel Mixer effect
- Doppler Shifter effect (Edit View only)
- Graphic Panner effect
- Pan/Expand effect (Edit View only)
- Stereo Expander effect
- Stereo Field Rotate VST effect
- Stereo Field Rotate process effect (Edit View only)
- Time and pitch manipulation effects
- Multitrack effects
- Chapter 9: Mixing multitrack sessions
- Chapter 10: Composing with MIDI
- Chapter 11: Loops
- Chapter 12: Working with video
- Chapter 13: Creating surround sound
- Chapter 14: Saving and exporting
- Saving and exporting files
- Audio file formats
- About audio file formats
- 64-bit doubles (RAW) (.dbl)
- 8-bit signed (.sam)
- A/mu-Law Wave (.wav)
- ACM Waveform (.wav)
- Amiga IFF-8SVX (.iff, .svx)
- Apple AIFF (.aif, .snd)
- ASCII Text Data (.txt)
- Audition Loop (.cel)
- Creative Sound Blaster (.voc)
- Dialogic ADPCM (.vox)
- DiamondWare Digitized (.dwd)
- DVI/IMA ADPCM (.wav)
- Microsoft ADPCM (.wav)
- mp3PRO (.mp3)
- NeXT/Sun (.au, .snd)
- Ogg Vorbis (.ogg)
- SampleVision (.smp)
- Spectral Bitmap Image (.bmp)
- Windows Media Audio (.wma)
- Windows PCM (.wav, .bwf)
- PCM Raw Data (.pcm, .raw)
- Video file formats
- Adding file information
- Chapter 15: Automating tasks
- Chapter 16: Building audio CDs
- Chapter 17: Keyboard shortcuts
- Chapter 18: Digital audio glossary
- Index

INDEX
281
bit depth
automatically converting files to
32-bit 37
changing 99
defined 273
fundamentals of 11
bit resolution, defined 273
bitmap (BMP) images
importing as audio 44
saving audio as 250
blank files, creating 43
Bounce To New Track command 201
brightness of interface 29
Bring To Front command 195
Broadcast Wave format
options 254
preserving metadata 240
spot-inserting files 47
brown noise
about 89
defined 273
burning CDs. See CDs
buses
about 186
adding to sessions 182
converting to clips 201
defined 274
BWF format 47, 240, 254
C
Cart Chunk information 255
CBR encoding 238, 248, 250
CCITT formats 244, 245, 249
CD View
default workspace 29
switching to 20, 270
using 264
CDs
adding text 266, 268
buffer and write speed for
burners 267
burning, using Adobe
Audition 267
burning, using another
program 240
copy protection 266
editing source audio 266
extracting tracks from 50
inserting tracks 264
normalizing volume 258
pre-emphasis 266
recording from 53
removing tracks 266
saving CD lists 267
selecting tracks 265
setting pauses between tracks 266
track properties 266
CEL format 246
Center Channel Extractor effect 163
center lines, showing or hiding 36
Channel Mixer effect 164
channels
converting between mono and
stereo 98
editing individually 74
selecting data in left or right 74
Check For Hidden Clips
command 195
Chorus effect 137
click track, defined 274
Click/Pop Eliminator effect 143
clip indicators 62, 63
Clip Restoration effect 147
clipboard
choosing 76
clearing on exit 35
resampling data 38
clipping
amplitude and 62
defined 274
showing or hiding clipping
boundaries 37
clips
about 191
aligning 193
combining 201
copying 193
editing 195
envelopes for 203, 210
fading and crossfading 197
grouping 192
hidden 195
inserting in sessions 47
locking in time 202
moving 192
muting 202
naming 202
properties, changing 202
protecting from recording 202
recording 57
removing 195
repeating 194
selecting 192
snapping 193
splitting and rejoining 197
time stretching 200
video 228
closing files 49, 244
CODEC, defined 274
color preferences 29, 35
command line, playing audio from 62
compressor, defined 274
Constant Bit Rate. See CBR encoding
converting
audio file formats 240
bit depth 99
sample rates 98, 101, 242
sample type when opening 46
stereo and mono waveforms 98
Convolution effect 158
Convolution Reverb effect 153
copy protection 266
Copy Reference Here command 193
Copy To New command 224
Copy Unique Here command 193
Creative Sound Blaster format 246
crossfading
clips 197, 199
defined 274
crossover frequency, for surround
subwoofer 232
crosstalk, defined 274
cues. See markers
current-time indicator. See start-time
indicator
custom time format 55
customizing
keyboard shortcuts and MIDI
triggers 269
spectral displays 69
timecode display 34
D
DAC, defined 274
DAT, defined 274
Data preferences 37
DAW, defined 274
dB, defined 274
dBFS, defined 274