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
284
M
Mackie Control 40
magnifying. See zooming
Main panel
in Edit View 65
in Multitrack View 179
navigating in 20
Manage Temporary Folder Reserve
Space command 41
markers
about 80
adding 82
adding silence between 83
automatically setting 84
changing durations of 82
deleting 82
describing 82
inserting in sessions 47
merging and converting 82
renaming 82
saving 240
selecting 82
showing or hiding lines for 36
snapping to 76
types of 81
Markers panel 81
Marquee Selection tool 73
Master track
about 186
converting to a clip 201
mastering
CDs 264
defined 276
with Mastering effect 161
Mastering And Analysis
workspace 29
Mastering Rack 102, 106
Maximum Session (Dual Monitor)
workspace 29
Maximum Waveform Editing (Dual
Monitor) workspace 29
Merge/Rejoin Split command 197
merging markers 82
metadata
adding to audio files 253
XMP 255
meters
about 62
customizing 63
monitoring levels with 63
metronome
enabling 223
setting up 211
Microsoft ACM format 245
Microsoft ADPCM format 247
Microsoft DirectX 237
MIDI
defined 276
file size 11
using with Adobe Audition 32
MIDI Panic Button command 217
MIDI sequencing
See also VST instruments
audio clips, converting to 201
controller data, editing 219
exporting and importing files 216
fundamentals 213
grid options 217
input devices 215
locking tracks 220
note data, editing 218
output devices 215, 216
pitch, transposing 219
presets 215
recording 215
selecting data 218
snapping to musical scales 218
tempo and time signature,
setting 223
tracks, inserting and adding 214
velocity data, editing 219
volume and pan settings 214
zooming and scrolling tracks 217
MIDI Timecode (MTC), defined 276
MIDI triggers
about 269
customizing 269
default 269, 270
defined 276
enabling 270
millisecond (ms), defined 276
miniplug, defined 276
mix downs, exporting
to audio 201, 242
to CD 265
to video 243
Mix Paste command 77, 99
Mixer panel 179
mixing
about 179
automating 203
default bit-resolution 39
defined 276
m-Law Wave format 244
Monitor Input Level command 63
monitoring inputs
with effects 57
without effects 58
monitoring levels 63
mono waveforms, converting to
stereo 98
mono, defined 276
mouse wheel, zooming with 34, 217
MOV format 252
Move/Copy Clip tool 191
mp3 format
ID3 Tag 253
options 247
XMP metadata 255
MPEG format, importing audio
from 43, 47
Multiband Compressor effect 118
multichannel WMA 238
multiple monitors 26
Multitap Delay effect 126
Multitrack preferences 38
Multitrack View
about 20
default workspace 29
recording in 57
switching to 20, 270
work area of 179
workflow overview 15
muting
audio files 86
clips 202
tracks 184
N
naming clips 202
new features in Adobe Audition 3.0 5
New Session command 46
NeXT/Sun format 249
noise
gate, defined 276
generating 89