Adobe calls Audition the best program for professional sound correction, restoration, and precise editing. It’s hard to argue with that: Audition offers one of the most comprehensive feature sets in the audio editing market (if you don’t count full-blown music creation software). Multitrack recording, mixing, installing external VSTs, built-in effects, and convenient track automation are all available.
The price of it all comes at a price. The need to pay a solid monthly fee automatically makes Adobe Audition a program for professionals who are willing to pay for a working tool, and for those who are already subscribed to Creative Cloud.
Adobe Audition 2.0 features a new mixer with minimal delay, the ability to record parameter changes in real time, new tools for audio visualization and editing in the frequency domain. In addition to a complete redesign of the internal mixer engine with instantaneous response to changes, support for ASIO-interface for sound cards has been added (VST-plugins were supported in the previous version) and much more. The ability to monitor inputs in real time by passing the signal through processing circuits and recording parameter changes has also been added. There is closer integration with multi-track mode, with support for recording up to 80 inputs simultaneously.
Adobe Audition 2.0 has a completely redesigned user interface. Toolbars can be anchored in any location and grouped. There is also a preview of saved panel presets that can be quickly recalled. A free set of music backing tracks is available for TV and radio broadcasting. Sound engineers have a complete set of editing, mastering, and restoration tools for phonograms.
Extensive stereo editing capabilities are combined with Spectral Pan and Spectral Phase visualization tools. There are two special modes for finding the fragments you need for editing by ear. An interesting lasso tool allows you to give any shape to the signal, highlighting it on the frequency-time diagram to restore damaged materials. The new effects block allows you to listen to the result of layering multiple effects simultaneously, the new multiband compressor with an algorithm from iZotope allows you to get high professional quality mixes.
Powerful support for audio formats, superb sound quality, tons of features and 128 tracks in multi-channel mode are features that put Audition on par with many big names in audio processing, such as Steinberg Wavelab and Sony SoundForge.