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Digital audio fundamentals
Understanding sound
Sound fundamentals
Waveform measurements
How sound waves interact
Digitizing audio
Comparing analog and digital audio
Sample rate
Bit depth
Audio file contents and size
How Adobe Audition digitizes audio
Workflow and workspace
Workflow
Workflow overview
Editing workflow
Multitrack workflow
Viewing, zooming, and navigating audio
Basic components of Edit, Multitrack, and CD View
Comparing Edit View and Multitrack View
Switch views
Zooming audio
Navigate with a scroll bar or ruler
Navigate with the Selection/View panel
Customizing workspaces
About workspaces
Dock, group, or float panels
Resize panel groups
Open and close panels and windows
Working with multiple monitors
Display the toolbar
Display the shortcut bar
Display the status bar
Change interface brightness or tint
Managing workspaces
Choose a workspace
Predefined workspaces in Adobe Audition
Save a custom workspace
Reset a workspace
Delete a workspace
Setting up Adobe Audition
Connecting to inputs and outputs
About hardware inputs and outputs
Set audio inputs and outputs
Set driver properties for a sound card
Connecting to MIDI devices and applications
Setting Adobe Audition preferences
Set Adobe Audition preferences
General preferences
System preferences
Colors preferences
Display preferences
Data preferences
Multitrack preferences
SMPTE/MTC preferences
External Controllers preferences
Managing temporary files
About temporary files
Manage temporary folder space
Access an open file in another application
Importing, recording, and playing audio
Opening audio files in Edit View
Create a new, blank audio file
Open existing audio files
Append one or more audio files to another
Import a bitmap image as audio
Convert audio to a different sample type when opening
Opening and adding to sessions in Multitrack View
Create a new session
Open an existing session
Set or clear a default session
Insert an audio file into a session
Spot insert a Broadcast Wave file into a session
Importing with the Files panel
Files panel overview
Import files into the Files panel
Use files in the Files panel
Change how files appear in the Files panel
Preview audio in the Files panel
Importing with Adobe Bridge
Importing audio from CDs
About importing audio from CDs
Extract CD tracks with the Open command
Extract CD tracks with the Extract Audio From CD command
Record from a CD internally
Preview the CD Audio input level
Getting ready for recording and playback
Transport panel overview
Monitoring time during recording and playback
Set the start‑time indicator
Synchronize the start‑time indicator across files or views
Adjust the playback cursor
To change the time display format
Recording audio
Record audio in Edit View
Use timed record mode in Edit View
Direct‑to‑file recording in Multitrack View
Record audio clips in Multitrack View
Loop while recording in Multitrack View
Punch into a selected range in Multitrack View
Punch in during playback in Multitrack View
Playing audio
Play audio linearly
Play selections or files in a loop
Play selections with preroll and postroll
Play audio by scrubbing
Play audio from the command line
Monitoring recording and playback levels
Level meters overview
Monitor levels
Customize level meters
Adjust levels for a consumer sound card
Editing audio files
Displaying audio in Edit View
Choose an audio display
About Waveform Display
About Spectral Frequency Display
About Spectral Pan Display
About Spectral Phase Display
Adjusting spectral displays
Change the vertical scale
View the top and tail of an audio file
Selecting audio
Select time ranges
Select spectral ranges
Select artifacts and repair them automatically
Select all of a waveform
Specify which channel you want to edit
Adjust a selection to zero‑crossing points
Select audio between beats
Snap to markers, rulers, frames, and zero crossings
Copying, cutting, pasting, and deleting audio
Choose a clipboard
Copy or cut audio data
Paste audio data
Mix audio data when pasting
Delete or trim audio data
Visually fading and changing amplitude
About on-clip fade and gain controls
Visually fade in or out
Visually raise or lower amplitude
Working with markers
About markers
Marker types
Add, select, and rename markers
Adjust, merge, convert, or delete markers
Add silence between markers
Save audio between markers to new files
Set markers automatically
Creating play lists
Creating and deleting silence
Create silence
Delete silence
Inverting and reversing audio
Invert a waveform
Reverse a waveform
Generating audio
Generate DTMF signals
Generate noise
Generate tones
Analyzing phase, frequency, and amplitude
Techniques for analyzing audio
Analyze phase
Analyze frequency range
Zoom phase and frequency graphs
Analyze amplitude
Converting sample types
Preview a file in a different sample rate
Convert the sample rate of a file
Convert a waveform between stereo and mono
Create a stereo waveform from two mono waveforms
Change the bit depth of a file
Use sample rate conversion presets
Recovery and undo
Undo or redo changes
Disable or enable the Undo function
Applying effects
Shared effects controls
Mastering Rack and Effects Rack overview
About process effects
Use effect presets
Control effects settings with graphs
About spline curves for graphs
Group effects in the Effects panel
Applying effects in Edit View
Apply groups of effects in Edit View
Apply individual effects in Edit View
Add preroll and postroll to effects previews
Applying effects in Multitrack View
Apply effects in Multitrack View
Edit settings for previously applied effects
Freeze effects and improve performance
Insert effects before or after sends and EQ
Adding third‑party plug‑ins
About third‑party plug‑ins
Enable DirectX effects
Enable VST effects
Effects reference
Amplitude and compression effects
Amplify effect
Amplify/Fade effect (Edit View only)
Dynamics Processing effect
Envelope effect (Edit View only)
Hard Limiting VST effect
Hard Limiting process effect (Edit View only)
Multiband Compressor effect
Normalize effect (Edit View only)
Tube-modeled Compressor effect
Delay and echo effects
About delays and echoes
Analog Delay effect
Delay effect
Dynamic Delay effect (Edit View only)
Echo effect
Echo Chamber effect
Multitap Delay effect
Filter and equalizer effects
Dynamic EQ effect (Edit View only)
FFT Filter effect (Edit View only)
Graphic Equalizer effect
Notch Filter effect
Parametric Equalizer effect
Quick Filter effect (Edit View only)
Scientific Filters effect (Edit View only)
Modulation effects
Chorus effect
Flanger effect
Sweeping Phaser effect
Restoration effects
Techniques for restoring audio
Adaptive Noise Reduction effect
Automatic Click Remover effect
Automatic Phase Correction effect
Click/Pop Eliminator effect (Edit View only)
Clip Restoration effect (Edit View only)
Hiss Reduction effect (Edit View only)
Noise Reduction effect (Edit View only)
Reverb effects
About reverb
Convolution Reverb effect
Full Reverb effect
Reverb effect
Studio Reverb effect
Special effects
Convolution effect (Edit View only)
Distortion effect
Guitar Suite effect
Mastering effect
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
Pitch Bender effect (Edit View only)
Pitch Correction effect (Edit View only)
Pitch Shifter effect
Stretch effect (Edit View only)
Multitrack effects
Envelope Follower effect (Multitrack View only)
Frequency Band Splitter effect (Multitrack View only)
Vocoder effect (Multitrack View only)
Mixing multitrack sessions
Multitrack View overview
About multitrack sessions
Editing sessions in the Main panel and Mixer
Scroll to the same tracks in the Main panel and Mixer
Select ranges in Multitrack View
Insert or delete time in a session
Basic track controls
Understanding different track types
Add, insert, or delete tracks
Name or move tracks
Vertically zoom an individual track
Set track output volume
Mute and solo tracks
Apply an identical setting to all tracks
Duplicate a track
Track routing and EQ controls
Show or hide track routing and EQ controls
Assign audio inputs and outputs to tracks
Routing audio to buses, sends, and the Master track
Set up a send
Pan tracks in stereo or sum them to mono
Equalizing tracks
Arranging clips
About clips
Select and move clips
Grouping clips
Align clips
Snap to clip and loop endpoints
Copy a clip
Repeat a clip
Insert empty audio clips
Display, remove, or play hidden clips
Remove selected clips
Editing clips
Trimming and extending clips
Splitting and rejoining clips
Fade or crossfade clips in a track
Crossfade clips in separate tracks
Time stretching audio clips
Create a single audio clip from multiple clips
Create an audio clip from a bus, master, MIDI, or ReWire track
Set audio clip properties
Automating mixes
Techniques for automating mixes
About automation envelopes
Automating clip settings
Automating track settings
Edit automation envelopes
Synchronizing sessions with ReWire and SMPTE
Synchronizing with ReWire
Synchronizing with SMTPE
Setting advanced session properties
Set advanced session properties
General properties for sessions
Mixing properties for sessions
Tempo properties for sessions
Metronome properties for sessions
Add notes to sessions
Composing with MIDI
MIDI sequencing basics
Understanding MIDI data and VST instruments
Overview of the Sequencer
Insert MIDI into a session and access the Sequencer
Enable VSTi plug-ins
Assign, adjust, and mix VST instruments
Use sequencer presets
Importing, recording, and outputting MIDI
Connect to MIDI inputs and outputs
Record MIDI in the Sequencer
Output sequencer tracks to MIDI hardware
Export and import MIDI files in the Sequencer
Monitor or stop all MIDI activity
Displaying and editing MIDI
Zoom and scroll MIDI
Determine musical timing with the MIDI grid
Snap edited or recorded MIDI to musical scales
Edit MIDI notes
Edit velocity and controller data
Prevent changes to MIDI data
Loops
Using loops in Multitrack View
About loops
Rhythmically synchronize loops
Extend or shorten a looped clip
Override original loop properties
Set tempo, time signature, and key for a session
Creating loops in Edit View
Select a range for a loop
Calculate the tempo of a selected range
Set original loop properties
Working with video
Working with video applications
Edit audio clips from After Effects
Link sessions to exported WAV mixdowns
Importing video and working with video clips
Insert a video file into a session
Snap to frames in a video clip
Change how a video clip displays thumbnails
Previewing video
Video panel overview
Preview exported video
Creating surround sound
Surround sound basics
About surround sound
Create mixes with the Surround Encoder
Setting track pan and volume for surround mixes
Include a track or bus in a surround mix
Assign a surround panning control
Use the Surround Panner
Statically pan tracks in a surround mix
Dynamically pan tracks in a surround mix
Adjust volume levels for surround mixes
Zoom waveforms in the Surround Encoder
Previewing and exporting surround mixes
Preview controls for surround mixes
Set the preview device for surround mixes
Export a surround mix
Saving and exporting
Saving and exporting files
Save audio files individually
Save a group of audio files to one format
Save multitrack sessions
Convert the sample rate of a session
Export a session to an audio file
Export a session to a video file
Close 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
About video file formats
Uncompressed AVI (.avi)
DV AVI (.avi)
QuickTime (.mov)
Windows Media Video (.wmv)
Adding file information
Add audio file information
Add or edit XMP metadata
Automating tasks
Favorites
Apply favorites to audio files
Create, edit, and organize favorites
Normalizing groups of files
Normalize a group of files
Analyze Loudness statistics
Group Waveform Normalize options
Batch processing files
Batch processing overview
Batch process files
Batch file renaming options
Scripts
About scripts
Create a script
Run a script
Edit a script
Building audio CDs
Assembling CDs
About CD View
Insert CD tracks
Select CD tracks
Rearrange, reassign, or remove CD tracks
Edit the source audio for a CD track
Set CD track properties
Save and open CD lists
Writing CDs
Set CD device properties
Write a CD
Keyboard shortcuts
Finding and customizing shortcuts
About keyboard shortcuts and MIDI triggers
Find shortcuts
Customize shortcuts
Restore the default shortcuts
Enable MIDI-triggered shortcuts
Default keyboard shortcuts
Keys for opening views
Keys for playing and zooming audio
Keys for editing audio files
Keys for mixing multitrack sessions
Digital audio glossary
A
ADAT
ADC
aliasing
amplitude
analog recording
ASIO
attack
attenuate
automation
B
band pass filter
beats per minute (bpm)
bit depth (or bit resolution)
brown noise
bus
C
click track
clip
clipping
codec
compressor
crossfade
crosstalk
D
DAC
DAT
DAW
dBFS
DC offset
decibel (dB)
delay
destructive editing
DirectX
dithering
dry
DSP
DVD
dynamic range
E
equalization (EQ)
expander
F
FFT
frequency
H
hertz (Hz)
I
interpolate
L
latency
limiter
loop
M
mastering
MIDI
MIDI Timecode (MTC)
MIDI trigger
millisecond (ms)
miniplug
mix (or mix down)
mono
N
noise gate
noise shaping
nondestructive editing
normalize
Nyquist frequency
O
offline processing
order
P
PCM
phase
pink noise
plug‑in
punch in
Q
quantization
R
RCA cable
real time
resample
reverb
ReWire
RMS
S
S/N ratio
sample
sample rate
sampler
sequencer
session
SMPTE timecode
sound card
sound wave
spectral editing
stereo
stripe
T
tempo
timecode
U
unity gain
V
VST
W
waveform
wet
white noise
Z
zero crossing
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