Adobe Audition Training

Lesson 1: Audio Interfacing

Audio interface basics

Mac OS X audio setup

Windows setup

Testing inputs and outputs with Audition (Mac or Windows)

Using external interfaces

Lesson 2: The Audition Environment

Audition’s dual personality

The Audition Workspace

Navigation

Lesson 3: Basic Editing

Opening a file for editing

Selecting a region for editing and changing its level

Cutting, deleting, and pasting audio regions

Cutting and pasting with multiple clipboards

Extending and shortening musical selections

Simultaneous mixing and pasting

Repeating part of a waveform to create a loop

Showing waveform data under the cursor

Fading regions to reduce artifacts

Lesson 4: Signal Processing

Effects basics

Using the Effects Rack

Amplitude and compression effects

Delay and echo effects

Filter and EQ effects

Modulation effects

Noise reduction/restoration

Reverb effects

Special effects

Stereo imagery effects

Time and Pitch effect

Third-party effects (VST and AU)

Using the Effects menu

Managing presets

Lesson 5: Audio Restoration

About audio restoration

Reducing hiss

Reducing crackles

Reducing pops and clicks

Reducing broadband noise

De-humming a file

Removing artifacts

Manual artifact removal

Alternate click removal

Sound removal

Lesson 6: Mastering

Mastering basics

Step 1: Equalization

Step 2: Dynamics

Step 3: Ambience

Step 4: Stereo imaging

Step 5: “Push” the drum hits; then apply the changes

Mastering diagnostics

Lesson 7: Sound Design

About sound design

Creating rain sounds

Creating a babbling brook

Creating insects at night

Creating an alien choir

Creating sci-fi machine effects

Creating an alien drone flyby

Extracting frequency bands

Lesson 8: Creating and Recording Files

Recording into the Waveform Editor

Recording into the Multitrack Editor

Checking remaining free space

Drag-and-dropping into an Audition Editor

Importing tracks as individual files from an audio CD

Importing tracks as a single file from an audio CD

Saving a template

Lesson 9: Multitrack Editor Orientation

About multitrack production

Multitrack and Waveform Editor integration

Changing track colours

Loop selections for playback

Track controls

Channel mapping in the Multitrack Editor

Side-chaining effects

Review questions

Review answers

Lesson 10: The Multitrack Mixer View

Mixer view basics

Lesson 11: Editing Clips

Creating a DJ-style continuous music mix (mixtape) with crossfading

Mixing or exporting a collection of clips as a single file

Selecting and merging all clips in a track into a single file

Editing for length

Clip edits: Split, Trim, Volume

Extending a clip via looping

Lesson 12: Creating Music with Sound Libraries

About sound libraries

Getting started

Building a rhythm track

Adding percussion

Adding melodic elements

Using loops with different pitch and tempo

Adding effects

Lesson 13: Recording in the Multitrack Editor

Getting ready to record a track

Setting up the metronome

Recording a part in a track

Recording an additional part (overdub)

“Punching” over a mistake

Composite recording

Lesson 14: Automation

About automation

Clip automation

Track automation

Lesson 15: Mixing

About mixing

Testing your acoustics

The mixing process

Exporting a stereo mix of the song

Burning an audio CD of the song

Exporting to SoundCloud

Lesson 16: Audio/Video Applications

Importing a video

Automatic Speech Alignment

Audition integration with Adobe Premiere Pro