Adobe Audition provides different views for editing audio files and creating multitrack mixes. To edit individual files, use Edit View. To mix multiple files and integrate them with MIDI and video, use Multitrack View.

Edit View and Multitrack View use different editing methods, and each has unique advantages. Edit View uses a destructive method, which changes audio data, permanently altering saved files. Such permanent changes are preferable when converting sample rate and bit depth, mastering, or batch processing. Multitrack View uses a nondestructive method, which is impermanent and instantaneous, requiring more processing power, but increasing flexibility. This flexibility is preferable when gradually building and reevaluating a multilayered musical composition or video soundtrack.

You can combine destructive and nondestructive editing to suit the needs of a project. If a multitrack clip requires destructive editing, for example, simply double‑click it to enter Edit View. Likewise, if an edited waveform contains recent changes that you dislike, use the Undo command to revert to previous states—destructive edits aren’t applied until you save a file.

For more information about Edit View, see Editing audio files; for more information about Multitrack View, see Mixing multitrack sessions.