Adobe Auditionfor Mac is a comprehensive toolset that includes multitrack, waveform, and spectral display for creating, mixing, editing, and restoring audio content. A professional audio workstation for macOS! This powerful audio workstation is designed to accelerate video production workflows and audio finishing — and deliver a polished mix with pristine sound. Meet the industry’s best audio cleanup, restoration, and precision editing tool for video, podcasting, and sound effect design. Easily and automatically rearrange any song to fit any duration with Remix in Adobe Audition CC. Get best practices for fixing audio, including how to use the spectral frequency display, Diagnostics panel, effects, and more.
Features and Highlights
Fast, precise editing
Work quickly with dozens of timesaving audio editing features including clip grouping, edit preview, view markers for all files in the Markers panel, and more.
Real-time clip stretching
Stretch clips nondestructively in real-time. Preview changes and settings, and render for higher quality results. Varispeed mode adjusts speed and pitch together.
Powerful effects
Design new sounds with powerful effects including Generate Tones, Graphic Phase Shifter, Doppler Shifter, and Notch Filter.
Powerful effects routing and VST3 support
Increase flexibility for mixing and effects channel routing. Improve third-party plug-in compatibility and open up options for new effects with VST3 compatibility.
Tools for efficient session management
Manage sessions efficiently with the Media Browser for easy preview and import of assets, the Quick Search field in the Files panel, customizable session templates, and more.
High-performance audio engine
Speed up audio editing with a faster audio engine, whether opening and saving files, processing multicore effects, or editing multiple sessions.
Intuitive user interface
Enjoy an easy-to-use interface with workspace panels that dock and group for optimal organization, as well as useful phase analysis tools and a powerful Mixer panel.
Track count limited only by CPU power
Record, edit, and mix as many stereo tracks as your CPU can handle. Resize track heights individually to focus on the tracks you need.
Native audio effects
Apply native audio effects such as the DeHummer, DeEsser, Speech Volume Leveler, and Surround Reverb for working with 5.1 surround projects.
Powerful sweetening tools
Fix audio problems fast with the Adaptive Noise Reduction tool and diagnostics such as the DeClicker or the Audio Healing Paintbrush for fixing audio problems visually.
Effects workflow enhancements
Edit and play audio while adjusting settings for multiple effects simultaneously. Experiment with effect settings while making selections or edits in the Waveform Editor.
Clip grouping
Edit multiple clips simultaneously, even if they are not in the same group. Use the new Suspend Groups feature to make edits to individual clips while maintaining the grouping.
Favorites in Effects Rack
Apply your most commonly used effects combinations easily by saving them as Favorites.
Fast and flexible batch processing
Streamline your workflow with fast batch processing that can convert files to new formats or sample rates, and apply Favorites at any time.
Trim to Selection
Make clip lengths automatically match a selection with the new Trim to Selection command in the Multitrack Editor.
Quick punch
Quickly punch in corrections on the fly as you rerecord: Toggle the record button to punch in and out as many times as you want.
Multiple clipboards
Keep multiple selections in memory for fast access to the audio you wish to use repeatedly.
Keyboard shortcut manager
Customize your workflow and increase productivity by configuring keyboard shortcuts more easily.
Dockable video display
Spot and cut to video with the dockable, resizable video display. Play QuickTime files and preview clips with roundtrip editing using Adobe Premiere Pro software.
Flexible metering
Customize I/O metering to suit your workflow. Monitor peaks and valleys, using LED segments or continuous output, as well as stereo and multichannel tracks and sessions.
Metronome
Keep time accurately when recording audio with the Metronome.
Sum to Mono
Quickly check your mix for phase problems with the Sum to Mono command.
Automatic retrieval of CD titles
Include CD track names automatically during import from an audio CD.
Analog-modeled Multiband Compressor
Control dynamics, adjust loudness, and master your mixes with multiband precision. Give bass and drums punch while allowing your vocals to push through the entire mix.
Audio mixing sends and inserts
Get more mix flexibility by creating sends to duplicate signals that are routed to different effects. Add a send to create a separate mix for headphone monitoring.
Effects on all channels and buses
Add effects to the master channel and hear the results before mixing down to a single file.
Real-time input monitoring
Listen to your audio inputs as you record, including effects applied to the input track. Then modify parameters after recording, if desired.
Plug-in delay compensation
Add filters and effects to tracks and buses throughout the signal chain without knocking tracks out of sync.
Sorting options in the Files panel
Sort files in the Files panel by common metadata fields such as Name, Media Type, Sample Rate, and more.
Playlist arrangements
Try different versions of an arrangement before you commit to the edits. Playback in any order and loop a specified number of times.
Batch processing
Speed up tedious tasks with batch processing. Let Adobe Audition for macOS 2020 latest automate operations such as converting the sample rate or file format of multiple files.
Multitrack mixing
Combine multiple tracks of dialogue, music beds, and SFX to create evocative soundtracks. Automate volume and pan on clips or entire tracks.
Guitar Suite effects
Perfect your sound with analog-modeled guitar effects that can be used with guitars or other instruments.
Robust DSP effects
Polish and improve audio with professional effects that take advantage of the power of VST and Mac Audio Units support.
History panel
Edit, arrange, and mix with confidence, knowing that you can easily revert to previous states using the History panel.
Powerful pitch correction
Correct pitch problems automatically or with manual control. Compare pitch adjustments with the original in the Spectral Pitch Display view.
Automatic speech alignment
Quickly align and replace location dialogue with studio recordings, even with noisy production tracks. Fix lip sync issues easily and rapidly.
EUCON and other control surface support
Work with control surfaces that use Mackie Control and Mackie Logic protocols, as well as Avid Artist Series control surfaces with native EUCON support.
Parameter automation
Automate entire mixes with write, latch, and touch parameter automation modes.
Editing preview with selective skipping
Preflight deletions and fine-tune selections by listening to just the pre-roll and post-roll around a selection.
Direct editing of clip properties
Spot clips quickly by entering precise start or end values via the clip properties. Input keyframe values directly on envelopes and automation lanes.
Waveform and spectral editing
Edit audio using the traditional Waveform View or the Spectral Frequency Display that makes it easy to isolate and remove unwanted noise.
Powerful audio diagnostics
Finalize audio confidently with the visual Frequency Analysis and Amplitude Statistics features, which can help you detect and eliminate anomalies.
Effects Paintbrush and Spot Healing Brush
Make free-form selections with the Paintbrush Selection tool and apply effects to them. Use the Spot Healing Brush to automatically repair clicks, pops, and other noises.
Adaptive Noise Reduction tool
Intelligently remove noise that changes over time, including whines, buzzes, and colored noise from fans or airplanes.
Spectral play for selected frequencies
Isolate noise easily. Select an area in the spectral view and play just that area, or play everything but that area.
Lasso tool in Spectral Frequency Display
Easily select exactly the area you want during frequency-space editing using the familiar Lasso tool found in other Adobe applications.
Logarithmic Spectral Frequency Display
Use the logarithmic display option in Spectral Frequency Display to increase the visibility of lower frequencies.
Flexible mixdown options
Enjoy a quick and convenient way to mix down your entire session, selected clips only, or a specified range.
Flexible output options
Deliver and archive your projects with flexible delivery options such as output to an audio CD, session archiving that saves all files, and other mixdown options.
HD video playback
Import and playback HD video without transcoding.
Support for radio automation systems
Work seamlessly with radio automation systems, using a streamlined Radio Industry view of RIFF metadata, AES Cart Chunk, and MPEG-1 Layer 2 audio support.
Simplified Metadata and Markers panels
View and edit XMP metadata, including BWF schema, Cart Chunk, and Radio Industry RIFF, enabling automated workflows within Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium software and other production systems.
Loudness standard compliance
Match volume to ITU BS.1770-2 loudness standards for advertising volume and noise.
Roundtrip editing
Pass individual clips and multitrack mixes from Adobe Premiere Pro to Adobe Audition 2020, or send Adobe Premiere Pro sequences to Adobe Audition CC for complete soundtrack creation.
Project exchange with NLEs and DAWs
Move sessions between the tool and Avid Pro Tools using built-in OMF import and export functions in the software. Share files with Apple Final Cut Pro 7 via XML.
Native 5.1 multichannel support
Edit multichannel files and mix surround projects using the Surround Panner in the Mixer View, as well as the Surround Reverb effect and Amplify, a multichannel gain effect.
Broad audio and video format support
Import, playback, convert and mix down to the most popular video and audio formats, including FLAC, OGG, HE-AAC, WMA, MPEG-1 Layer 2, RAW, and more.
Support for more frame rates
Work with all types of footage with broader support for many video formats and frame rates, such as 23.976 and 59.94fps.
Cross-platform audio toolset
Record, mix, edit, and master your audio with a powerful cross-platform audio toolset: AdobeAudition CS6 runs natively on macOS as well as Windows.
Professional audio formats
Produce high-resolution 24- or 32-bit files with sample rates up to 192kHz.
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