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Audition

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What is Audition?

Adobe offers Audition as part of the Creative Cloud suite, a sound and audio editing and creation application.

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Audition - Individuals

$31.49

Cloud
per month

Single App - Business

$33.99

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

11.1 Spatial Audio Designer Demo in Adobe Audition! Wait Until the End!

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Remove Breathing From Vocal Recordings (Adobe Audition)

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Adobe Audition Shortcuts on the Side of a Mouse - Corsair Scimitar RGB Elite Setup

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How to Change the Pitch of Your Voice In Adobe Audition

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Presets For Voice Overs in Adobe Audition - Make Your Voiceovers Sound Best!

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Adobe Audition Noise Reduction Demo

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Product Details

What is Audition?

Audition Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Adobe offers Audition as part of the Creative Cloud suite, a sound and audio editing and creation application.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 7.8.

The most common users of Audition are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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alfonso de orte | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Easy to cut and adjust tracks.
  • Use is somehow intuitive, but not much.
  • Easy to have a seeing of what parts of track are because of different colors on parts of the track selection.
  • Could be more visual and interactive with its commands.
  • FX and special effects are not easy to find and use at first sight.
  • Could have an option for increasing type in the menu.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Clean and eliminate noises and pops from recordings.
  • Record our Teams meetings much better than even Teams can.
  • Manage our internal database of calls and podcasts.
  • Sync our audio with the presentations we usually do for clients.
  • Record directly from a source in Windows, even if it isn't the "direct" line.
  • Offer options for converting the audio (adding echo, doppler effects, etc.) for video calls.
  • Let us have more than one license for users, since it moved to the cloud we can only use one license.
August 01, 2022

Review: Adobe Audition

Chris Hecox | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Audition has an excellent noise reduction plugin. If you work in VO or corporate video, you'll do lots of noise reduction. The versatility of how you can remove noise is wide, and the plugin itself is powerful.
  • Audition offers a number of ways to edit sections of audio within a wavelength. If a plugin isn't doing the job, there are many ways to work in the software to eliminate pops and other unwanted artifacts in your audio file.
  • Audition has a lot of features, but to me, it feels like Adobe neglects it more often than not. Where I see lots of new, and sometimes incredible, additions to other Adobe products, Audition feels a bit dated in many ways.
  • Audition doesn't scrub the timeline well. It does a decent job, but quick editing and scrubbing needs good hotkeys and good navigation precision to be on top of things.
GHAZAL ZAFAR | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Adobe is excellent to record high-quality voice and supports many different file formats for rendering.
  • Adobe's noise/hiss reduction is simply great. I have worked with terrible recordings and it wouldn't have been possible without Adobe. Love it.
  • Built-in adobe audition effects and support for VST plug-in are wonderful to use.
  • I'm not sure but maybe it should also introduce the video rendering option.
  • Basically, I don't have anything to complain about as Adobe Audition does a really good job for us.
Julia Dachmann | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Sound waves - Sound originates in the air, arising from its vibrations. The source of air vibrations can be, for example, a person's vocal cords, a drum or loudspeaker membrane, or guitar strings. These vibrations push nearby molecules together, slightly increasing the air pressure.
  • Bit depth - The bit depth (depth) of digital audio determines the dynamic range for an audio file. When a sound wave is digitized (sampled), each sample is assigned an amplitude value that most closely matches the amplitude of the original sound wave. The higher the bit depth value, the greater the dynamic range, the lower the noise level, and the higher the digital sound quality.
  • Automatic filters and special effects - Adobe Audition includes a suite of new sound effects ranging from circuit-optimized Surround Reverb to a suite of diagnostic effects.
  • Analog Audio: Positive and Negative Voltage - The microphone converts the pressure of sound waves into electrical current: high air pressure becomes a positive voltage, and low pressure becomes negative. As these voltage changes move along the microphone wire, they can be recorded (as changes in magnetic field strength) onto magnetic tape or onto a vinyl record (by resizing the grooves on the disc).
  • High-performance code - Adobe Audition has received a new redesigned code. This means increased speed of audio processing, accurate and smooth sound reproduction during preprocessing, the ability to work with multiple files and audio tracks at the same time, high overall performance.
  • Editing, enhancing and restoring audio - Any professional working with sound dreams of making the source material as close to ideal as possible. For this, special studios are being built with soundproofing, special acoustic form, and equipment. Indeed, if there is such an opportunity, then it is better to record sound in the studio. Even in this case, insignificant noises and unwanted sounds can be received at the input: a click of a switch, a weak background of a poor-quality or punctured cable, or, for example, a defect in human diction, in which some hissing sounds turn into whistling sounds. It is worth going out to record an interview, for example, in an office space - phone calls or conversations in the next room, the noise of the city outside the window, sounds of the door being opened, etc. will be added.
  • Lots of unnecessary settings
  • It is advisable for the next updates to think about the design for developers
Joshua Hipp | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Multitrack: this is a huge feature for producing content for radio or anything else with multiple audio layers.
  • Handles multiple formats: Audition can import and export multiple formats, making very versatile for any audio scenario.
  • Audio editing: Audition has some great presets for EQ, reverb, and other important audio editing features that make applying effects quick and easy.
  • More presets: Audition has a pretty solid library of sound effect presets, but could stand to add more to increase the ability and efficiency of the software.
  • Help guide: it would be great, especially for newer users, if Audition implemented a help guide that could walk you through how to accomplish certain tasks.
  • User interface: Audition could benefit from having more customization options to adapt to specific user preferences.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
  • It is a very expensive software, as is all of Adobe's other software.
  • The interface and all the features can be difficult [for] beginners to get the hang of and get used to.
  • When live listening to your recording with effects, there is an unavoidable latency which doesn't help.
Andy Fuller | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Audition is intuitive - you can cut and arrange clips using a clear interface.
  • Audition has ready-made templates based on your needs: podcast, song, etc.
  • The compression is a little off sometimes. The trick is to adjust the leveling amount in a track, but that's not readily apparent.
  • I'd love the ability to crowd-share, so other team members can work on the same project at the same time across machines.
Jonah Dempcy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Recording on-site: Audition does not use a lot of computer resources so you can run it on a laptop and be up and running recording in minutes.
  • On-the-fly audio bus setup.
  • Integration with Adobe Premiere.
  • Numerous features for podcasts and radio such as auto-ducking music when voice tracks are active.
  • Audio editing: I still prefer competitors like Magix Sound Forge Pro and Steinberg WaveLab Pro when it comes to extensive audio editing, simply because of their superior keyboard navigation and shortcuts, in my opinion.
  • Multitrack recording: While this is not Audition's primary purpose, and it does feature multitrack support, it is not my preferred audio editor for multitrack editing. I prefer a more full-featured Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) for those purposes.
  • Some UI choices fit more with the Adobe ecosystem of Photoshop, Premiere, etc. and are unusual for a more audio-focused ecosystem. Audition feels like it belongs to a different "world" of software than many of my other audio applications, which all seem to coexist within the same conceptual world. This is not a problem if you are familiar with Adobe apps, and may even be a feature, as it reduces the learning curve for people who are already familiar with the internal logic of Adobe user interface design.
Kevin O'Grady | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Just as easy to use as free tools.
  • Full integration with all the other programs in the Adobe suite.
  • To use Audacity on its own is costly, but if you use other programs in the Adobe Suite, it is a great value.
  • It is a hefty user of computer resources. This has become less so over the years, but it still takes a beefy computer to get the best from it.
Michael Whatley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Audition does a great job of identifying and isolating background noise.
  • Audition does a great job of providing tools and elements to clean audio.
  • For novice users, it is difficult to navigate the interface at first without assistance.
  • Some of the terminology can be confusing in the beginning.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Audio cleanup.
  • Audio EQ.
  • Probably just me (as more of a beginner) but I haven't found an easy way to adjust an effect after it's been applied to a project.
  • GUI, as with all adobe products, is a bit user UNfriendly. Takes getting used to.
November 05, 2019

Excellent audio solution!

Lochan Kalicharan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Edit and convert audio files between various formats.
  • Remove anomalies in the soundtrack.
  • Arrange a soundtrack where multiple layers are needed.
  • Customer support can be difficult to reach at times.
  • Updates are less frequent than I expected but most issues are non-urgent.
  • The interface is a little complicated.
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