Operation Manual

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Table Of Contents

Contents
Chapter 1: Getting started
- Installation
- Resources
- New features
  - What’s new
Chapter 2: Digital audio fundamentals
- Understanding sound
- Digitizing audio
Chapter 3: Workflow and workspace
- Workflow
- Viewing, zooming, and navigating audio
- Customizing workspaces
- Managing workspaces
Chapter 4: Setting up Adobe Audition
- Connecting to inputs and outputs
- Setting Adobe Audition preferences
- Managing temporary files
Chapter 5: Importing, recording, and playing audio
- Opening audio files in Edit View
- Opening and adding to sessions in Multitrack View
- Importing with the Files panel
- Importing with Adobe Bridge
- Importing audio from CDs
- Getting ready for recording and playback
- Recording audio
- Playing audio
- Monitoring recording and playback levels
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
  - Create silence
  - Delete silence
- Inverting and reversing audio
  - Invert a waveform
  - Reverse a waveform
- Generating audio
- Analyzing phase, frequency, and amplitude
- Converting sample types
- Recovery and undo
  - Undo or redo changes
  - Disable or enable the Undo function
Chapter 7: Applying effects
- Shared effects controls
- Applying effects in Edit View
- Applying effects in Multitrack View
- Adding third-party plug-ins
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
- Time and pitch manipulation effects
- Multitrack effects
Chapter 9: Mixing multitrack sessions
- Multitrack View overview
- Basic track controls
- Track routing and EQ controls
- Arranging clips
- Editing clips
- Automating mixes
- Synchronizing sessions with ReWire and SMPTE
  - Synchronizing with ReWire
  - Synchronizing with SMTPE
- Setting advanced session properties
Chapter 10: Composing with MIDI
- MIDI sequencing basics
- Importing, recording, and outputting MIDI
- Displaying and editing MIDI
Chapter 11: Loops
- Using loops in Multitrack View
- Creating loops in Edit View
Chapter 12: Working with video
- Working with video applications
  - Edit audio clips from After Effects
  - Link sessions to exported WAV mixdowns
- Importing video and working with video clips
- Previewing video
  - Video panel overview
  - Preview exported video
Chapter 13: Creating surround sound
- Surround sound basics
  - About surround sound
  - Create mixes with the Surround Encoder
- Setting track pan and volume for surround mixes
- Previewing and exporting surround mixes
Chapter 14: Saving and exporting
- Saving and exporting files
- Audio file formats
- Video file formats
- Adding file information
  - Add audio file information
  - Add or edit XMP metadata
Chapter 15: Automating tasks
- Favorites
  - Apply favorites to audio files
  - Create, edit, and organize favorites
- Normalizing groups of files
- Batch processing files
- Scripts
Chapter 16: Building audio CDs
- Assembling CDs
- Writing CDs
  - Set CD device properties
  - Write a CD
Chapter 17: Keyboard shortcuts
- Finding and customizing shortcuts
- Default keyboard shortcuts
Chapter 18: Digital audio glossary
- Common audio terms
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INDEX

282

DC offset

adjusting meters for 63

correcting with Amplify/Fade

effect 113

correcting with Normalize

effect 121

defined 274

viewing 97

decibel, defined 274

default settings

See also preferences

default multitrack session 47

keyboard shortcut set 269

workspaces 29

Delay effect 123

delay, compared to echo 122

deleting

audio 78

silence 86

Design Center 3

Destroy Clips command 195

Destroy Selected Tracks (Remove

And Close) command 266

destructive editing

defined 275

Edit View and 20

devices. See input devices, output

devices, MIDI sequencing

Dialogic ADPCM format 246

DiamondWare Digitized format 247

digital audio

See also audio

extraction 50

fundamentals of 10

Digital Theater Systems (DTS) 232

direct-to-file recording 57

DirectX plug-ins 110

disk space

freeing up 41

monitoring 28

Display preferences 36

Display Time Format command 55

Distortion effect 159

dithering

defined 275

enabling for WAV files 251

preferences 37

when lowering bit depth 38, 99

docking panels 23

Dolby Digital 232

Doppler Shifter effect 164

downloads

updates, plug-ins, and tryouts 4

downsampling quality level 38

dry, defined 275

DSP, defined 275

DTMF signals, generating 88

DTS 232

dubbing 57

Duplicate (clip) command 194

Duplicate Selected Track

command 184

DV AVI format 252

DVD, defined 275

DVI/IMA ADPCM format 247

DWD format 247

Dynamic Delay effect 123

Dynamic EQ effect 128

Dynamic Peaks option 63

dynamic range

defined 275

in level meters 63

Dynamics Processing effect 113

E

Echo Chamber effect 125

Echo effect 124

echo, compared to delay 122

Edit Favorites command 256

Edit In Adobe Audition

command 227

Edit Original data, embedding in

files 227

Edit Tempo command 225

Edit View

about 20

customizing spectral displays 69

default workspace 29

display modes 65

selecting time ranges 72

Spectral Frequency Display 66

Spectral Pan Display 66

Spectral Phase Display 67

switching to 20, 270

Waveform Display 65

workflow overview 13

editing audio

See also specific editing tasks

destructive and nondestructive 20

in Edit View 65

in Multitrack View 195

in specific stereo channels 74

undoing and redoing 101

effects

applying in Edit View 106, 107

applying in Multitrack View 107

automating 204, 206

cancelling 38

freezing 109

graph controls 104

grouping in Effects panel 106

plug-ins 110

pre- and post-fader 109

presets 104

saving as favorites 256

Effects Paintbrush tool 73

Effects panel 106

Effects Rack 102, 107

empty audio clips, inserting 194

Enable DirectX Effects command 110

Enable Preroll And Postroll Preview

command 107

encoding, lossless 250

Envelope effect 116

Envelope Follower effect 174

envelopes, mix automation

about 203

editing 207

for clips 203, 210

for tracks 204

equalization (EQ), defined 275

expander, defined 275

exporting

mix downs to audio 242

mix downs to video 243

Extensible Metadata platform

(XMP) 253

External Controllers preferences 40

External monitoring 58

Extract Audio From CD

command 51

extras 2

F

fading

audio 79, 112

clips 197

fast-forwarding 55