Audition vs Logic Pro X

Likelihood to Recommend

An excellent sound editor and also good for studio voice recording. Easy to use, easy to do things like cut audio, tune and convert, process and mix. Can convert audio to many supported formats that conform to standards. I've used Adobe Audition in conjunction with Adobe Premiere Pro and I love the seamless integration between the two products. I could almost certainly do the same in Audacity, but the integration is so good - and if you pay for Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Audition comes at no extra cost.

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Julia Dachmann

Marketing Specialist

T-MobileTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees

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We use to LPX to produce "down-and-dirty" musical snippets to serve as soundtracks for short explainer and marketing videos. As these are generally done for the tech industry, the tracks skew towards electronica and don't have to be particularly innovative or unusual sounding. FPX is brilliant for this -- out of the box, the vast collection of instruments and effects make it really easy to just layout cool-enough background music. The "Drummer" feature is especially helpful, as it instantly gives the music a custom drum track.We also do simple sound editing... mostly just timing out voice over and limited sound effects to picture (which you can do in FPX), and mixing it to background music. While FPX might not be the best tool for really complex editing/mixing, is more than adequate for our purposes.

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Matt Eddy

Creative Director

The Buzz LabMarketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Pros

Huge amount of features, tools and audio effects.
I love the live listen feature that allows you to listen to your voice with effects while recording.
Adobe Audition mixes audio really well.
You can save pre-sets in Adobe Audition which [saves] a lot of time when you want to use the same effects a second time.

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Musab Nismy

Founder

HatwareApparel & Fashion, 1-10 employees

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Audio Editing
Midi Editing and composition
Audio mix down and mastering
Live music performance, although we don't use this feature in our business

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Verified User

Manager in Other

Events Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Audition is serious app that will require time to master. While Adobe has done an excellent job of making it approachable, there is a considerable learning curve to unlocking its best features. Knowing that, going in should ease user frustration.
There hasn't been anything I've wanted to accomplish with my audio files that Audition has not permitted.

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Nathan Roberts

Director, Management Information Systems

CareerSource FloridaPublic Policy, 11-50 employees

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Logic Pro X is designed for music editing, so the help documents and videos don't often address my needs--would love tutorials for podcasts
It's designed for someone with more technical expertise than I have, so it can be overwhelming at times
Would like to color code segments more easily

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Beth Loeb Davies

Host

Career CurvesProfessional Training & Coaching, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$31.49 per month

Audition Editions & Modules

Edition

Audition - Individuals	$31.49¹
Single App - Business	$33.99¹

per month

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$199.99 Per License

Logic Pro X Editions & Modules

Edition

Starting Price	$199.99¹

Per License

Additional Pricing Details

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Usability

Audition 6.0

Based on 1 answer

It isn't easy to just jump in and learn the program, though most of Adobe products aren't easy to use the first time around. They UI is not friendly, and it is cumbersome and intimidating when you first try it. For simple audio changes, it seems to difficult to use, but for the more advanced audio work, it's the perfect solution.

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Todd Dodge

Marketing Assistant/ Graphic Designer

Chinatour.comHospitality, 51-200 employees

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Logic Pro X 9.0

Based on 1 answer

Like every DAW, it takes some time and getting used to, but Logic's tools and interface just make sense to anyone who is familiar with Apple products and music tools.

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Michael Anderson

Audio Engineer/ Editor

VideoBranchMedia Production, 1-10 employees

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Support Rating

Audition 7.7

Based on 28 answers

I have not contacted support but given the large amount of users, I have no doubt that most problems can be solved fairly easily. A cursory search for known issues in Adobe Audition yields a support website with many workarounds posted by the official Audition team. They seem responsive and eager to continue fixing bugs and improving the application, which I take as a sign that their support is top notch, as I would expect from my experience using other Adobe products.

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Jonah Dempcy

Web & Mobile Developer

Bluefire ProductionsComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Logic Pro X 9.6

Based on 10 answers

The user community of Logic Pro X is vibrant, responsive, and lively. There are many great forums out there where you can solve any problem you encounter, whether it's sound card latency, a certain plugin not working, audio routing, multitrack issues, or virtually anything else you run into. The community is so helpful that I'm giving Logic Pro X a 10 in this department, despite having never contacted their official support department. I've never had to, since there is such a great user community.

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Jonah Dempcy

Web & Mobile Developer

Bluefire ProductionsComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Adobe Audition is not as intuitive as ProTools, but the fact that it is part of the Adobe Creative Suite makes it far more cost efficient for smaller to medium businesses. It is far superior than Audacity and GarageBand with far more capabilities. We've selected Adobe Audition as our primary audio editing software because of it's capabilities with Premiere Pro and the fact that we generally use it for audio recording and minor edits- nothing that would need 30+ audio tracks and multiple custom plug ins, which I would prefer to use ProTools on

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Verified User

Technician in Professional Services

Media Production Company, 11-50 employees

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Logic Pro X is the natural successor to GarageBand. GarageBand is a fantastic app, however, it's fairly rudimentary and doesn't have the robust features that Logic Pro X supports. Pro Tools is more expensive but does similar things to Logic. Thankfully, Logic rests in the middle where the price is affordable, but it allows a wide assortment of tools, along with Apple's reliability of software and support.

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Verified User

Director in Other

Religious Institutions Company, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

Audition makes Audio editing/production so efficient that we're able to produce audio more rapidly than with any other software.
The option to save in multiple file formats, and to save session files, makes it easy to go back and make edits to completed projects with just a few clicks.
All versions of Audition work well together, so whether you have the latest version or an older one, you can pick up any session file and edit as needed.

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