ADOBE® AUDITION® Help and tutorials June 2013 Contents What's New...................................................................................................................................................1 What's new in Audition CC..................................................................................................................................................... 2 What's new in CS6............................................................................................................................................................... 10 Digital audio fundamentals......................................................................................................................... 14 Digitizing audio..................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Understanding sound............................................................................................................................................................18 Workspace and setup................................................................................................................................. 20 Viewing, zooming, and navigating audio.............................................................................................................................. 21 Connecting to audio hardware..............................................................................................................................................24 Customizing and saving application settings........................................................................................................................ 26 Customizing workspaces...................................................................................................................................................... 27 Importing, recording, and playing............................................................................................................... 33 Creating and opening files....................................................................................................................................................34 Importing with the Files panel...............................................................................................................................................37 Supported import formats..................................................................................................................................................... 38 Extracting audio from CDs....................................................................................................................................................40 Navigating time and playing audio........................................................................................................................................41 Monitoring recording and playback levels.............................................................................................................................44 Recording audio....................................................................................................................................................................46 Editing audio files........................................................................................................................................49 Displaying audio in the Waveform Editor..............................................................................................................................50 Copying, cutting, pasting, and deleting audio.......................................................................................................................53 Working with markers........................................................................................................................................................... 55 Automating common tasks (CS5.5)...................................................................................................................................... 58 Automating common tasks (CS6)......................................................................................................................................... 61 Analyzing phase, frequency, and amplitude.........................................................................................................................64 Converting sample types...................................................................................................................................................... 67 Inverting, reversing, and silencing audio.............................................................................................................................. 70 Selecting audio..................................................................................................................................................................... 71 Undo, redo, and history........................................................................................................................................................ 75 Visually fading and changing amplitude............................................................................................................................... 76 Applying effects.......................................................................................................................................... 78 Effects controls..................................................................................................................................................................... 79 Applying effects in the Multitrack Editor................................................................................................................................82 Adding third-party plug-ins....................................................................................................................................................84 Applying effects in the Waveform Editor...............................................................................................................................85 Effects reference.........................................................................................................................................86 Amplitude and compression effects......................................................................................................................................87 Filter and equalizer effects....................................................................................................................................................94 Modulation effects.................................................................................................................................................................97 Special effects.................................................................................................................................................................... 100 Stereo imagery effects........................................................................................................................................................102 Time and pitch manipulation effects................................................................................................................................... 104 Generate Tones effect (CS6)..............................................................................................................................................107 Fade and Gain Envelope effects (CS6 Waveform Editor only)...........................................................................................109 Doppler Shifter effect (CS6 Waveform Editor only)............................................................................................................ 110 Graphic Phase Shifter effect (CS6).................................................................................................................................... 111 Notch Filter effect (CS6)..................................................................................................................................................... 112 Manual Pitch Correction effect (CS6 Waveform Editor only)..............................................................................................113 Automatic Pitch Correction effect (CS6)............................................................................................................................. 114 Amplitude and compression effects....................................................................................................................................115 Delay and echo effects....................................................................................................................................................... 121 Diagnostics effects (Waveform Editor only)........................................................................................................................123 Noise reduction / restoration effects................................................................................................................................... 125 Reverb effects.....................................................................................................................................................................130 Stereo imagery effects........................................................................................................................................................134