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

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DC Offset Adds a constant DC (Direct Current) amplitude to the tone, centering the waveform by shifting it up or
down by the specified percentage. For example, you can apply DC Offset to correct an incoming signal that has
suffered electrical pollution from a strong adjacent current.
Flavor Specifies the type of waveform to use. Each flavor has a particular sound unique unto itself. Sine waveforms
are fundamental, with no harmonics (pure tone). Triangle waveforms have odd harmonics with amplitude of 1 to
itself (squared). Square waveforms have odd harmonics with amplitude of 1 to itself. Sawtooth waveforms have all
harmonics with amplitude of 1 to itself.
Duration Specifies the length of the generated tone (in seconds). Use decimals for partial seconds. For example,
enter .25 to generate tones for exactly one-fourth of a second.
Modulate When a range of audio data is selected, causes the audio to be ring modulated, or multiplied, by the current
tone settings. This option is great for adding special effects.
Demodulate When a range of audio data is selected, causes the audio to be demodulated. Use Demodulate on a
previously modulated source to produce interesting effects.
Overlap (mix) When a range of audio data is selected, mixes the generated tones on top of the selected audio.
Analyzing phase, frequency, and amplitude
Techniques for analyzing audio
Edit View provides several ways to analyze audio. To compare phase relationships between the left and right stereo
channels, use the Phase Analysis panel. To analyze tonal and dynamic range, use the Frequency Analysis panel and
the Amplitude Statistics dialog box.
Edit View also provides Spectral Frequency, Spectral Pan, and Spectral Phase displays, which you can use in
conjunction with the analysis methods above. (See “Displaying audio in Edit View” on page 65.)
Analyze phase
In Edit View, you can use the Phase Analysis panel to reveal out-of-phase channels for stereo waveforms, which you
can correct with the Invert command. Phase analysis also shows stereo separation, which you can adjust using stereo
imagery effects. (See “Changing stereo imagery” on page 162.)
To evaluate phase in detail, use the Phase Analysis panel in conjunction with Spectral Phase Display. (See “About
Spectral Phase Display” on page 67.)