Adobe Audition 3.0

What’s new

Record and mix

Adobe Audition 3.0 is a powerful tracking and mixing application. Mix faster with new automatic crossfades, clip fade handles, and automation-editing improvements. Take full advantage of the latest hardware with multicore processor support and an optimized mixing engine.

VST plug-in manager
Quickly enable or disable specific VST plug-ins, optimizing performance. (See Enable VST effects.)

Auto crossfades and clip fade handles
Simply overlap clips to crossfade them, and adjust fade curves with on-clip handles. (See Fade or crossfade clips in a track.)

Improved multitrack editing
Efficiently edit sessions with these key enhancements:

XML session support
Save sessions to XML format and other shared standards for multitrack applications. (See Save multitrack sessions.)

Mix down directly to Edit View
Quickly output a session directly to Edit View, without first exporting a file. (See Create a single audio clip from multiple clips.)

Video previews for surround mixes
Watch a preview in the Video panel while adjusting mixes in the Surround Encoder. (See Previewing video.)

Create and arrange

Adobe Audition 3.0 offers powerful and extensive looping capabilities, as well as support for VST instruments, making it easy to create and arrange great-sounding music. Improved processing, including the high-quality Radius time-stretching engine from iZotope and numerous new effects, gives you infinite creative options.

MIDI tracks and piano-roll editor
Import, record, and edit MIDI, and output it through VST instruments or hardware synthesizers. (See Composing with MIDI.)

New effects
Explore creative sonic possibilities with Convolution Reverb, Analog Delay, Guitar Suite, and other new effects. (See Effects reference.)

Radius time-stretching from iZotope
Access industry-standard algorithms in the updated Stretch effect, as well as the File Info and Audio Clip Looping dialog boxes.

Bitmap audio images
Export spectral graphs for detailed editing in an image-editor like Adobe Photoshop®. Or, import visually-oriented graphics as source material for experimental sound designs. (See Spectral Bitmap Image (.bmp) and Import a bitmap image as audio.)

Improved CD ripping
Automatically import track information from your favorite CD database. (See Extract CD tracks with the Extract Audio From CD command.)

Enhanced file sorting
Sort files by track number, or by the date they were opened or created. (See Change how files appear in the Files panel.)

Customizable workspaces
Tint panels and dialog boxes to suit your working style. Add favorite commands to the shortcut bar. (See Change interface brightness or tint and Display the shortcut bar.)

Edit and master

Adobe Audition 3.0 includes a full set of editing, restoration, and mastering tools that give you unprecedented flexibility and control. Comprehensive waveform-editing tools combined with innovative spectral frequency brushes let you edit with power and precision. The new Mastering effect, phase correction tools, and Top/Tail view make Adobe Audition 3.0 the ideal audio editing and mastering environment.

Spot Healing Brush
Quickly brush over artifacts to seamlessly remove them. (See Select artifacts and repair them automatically.)

Effects Paintbrush
Create free-form selections, and layer brush strokes to determine the intensity of effects. (See Select spectral ranges.)

Marquee pan and phase selections
Process discrete stereo information such as center-panned vocals in Spectral Pan Display or out-of-phase audio in Spectral Phase Display. (See Select spectral ranges.)

Play spectral selections
Play back selected frequency, pan, and phase ranges to precisely restore and process audio. (See Play audio linearly.)

On-clip fade and gain controls
Visually adjust selections or entire files. (See Visually fading and changing amplitude.)

Top/Tail View
Fine-tune loop transitions by simultaneously viewing the beginning and end of files. (See View the top and tail of an audio file.)

Mastering effect
Optimize audio for maximum impact with a series of professional processors. (See Mastering effect.)

Adaptive noise reduction
Quickly correct a wide range of variable broadband noise. (See Adaptive Noise Reduction effect.)

Graphic Panner
Visually adjust the stereo field to enhance spatial perception. (See Graphic Panner effect.)

Play lists
Organize and play marker ranges for live performance and broadcast. (See Creating play lists.)

Efficient file opening and saving
Specify default formats for Open and Save As dialog boxes, and quickly save groups of files to one format. (See System preferences and Save a group of audio files to one format.)