Introduction to Adobe Audition CS5.5

Chat - What did you do with sound yesterday? What did you discover about sound? How does it look?

AWord document has a last name of .doc, and a Photoshop file has a last name of .psd, and a picture for the web has a last name of .jpg.What file type is a sound file?

Open Adobe Audition

The Workspace - set your workspace to look like this

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Comparing the Waveform and Multitrack editors

Adobe Audition provides different views for editing audio files and creating multitrack mixes. To edit individual files, use the Waveform Editor. To mix multiple files and integrate them with video, use the Multitrack Editor.

The Waveform and Multitrack editors use different editing methods, and each has unique advantages. The Waveform Editor uses a destructive method, which changes audio data, permanently altering saved files. Such permanent changes are preferable when converting sample rate and bit depth, mastering, or batch processing. The Multitrack Editor uses a nondestructive method, which is impermanent and instantaneous, requiring more processing power, but increasing flexibility. This flexibility is preferable when gradually building and reevaluating a multilayered musical composition or video soundtrack.

You can combine destructive and nondestructive editing to suit the needs of a project. If a multitrack clip requires destructive editing, for example, simply double click it to enter the Waveform Editor. Likewise, if an edited waveform contains recent changes that you dislike, use the Undo command to revert to previous states—destructive edits aren’t applied until you save a file.

Right click on this link. Save it into your Audition folder.

In Audition, click File > Open, then browse to the wehrman-voice2.mp3. Your window will look like this.

Click Window>Zoom to turn on the Zoom panel. Zoom in and out and pan left and right.

Select part of the wave form. Change the volume with the HUD toolbar.

Right click on this link. Save it into your Audition folder.

In Audition, click File> Open, then browse to the n-wood.mp3 file.

Experiment with volume.

Build a multi track

In the files pane, right click on n-wood.mp3 and insert into a new multi-track session. Name the session WL See here.

Add the wehrman_voice2 file to the new multi-track session.

Move tool

Adjust volume of voice

Cut/copy/paste

Fade in/fade out

Add Applause

When you are done experimenting, do your own thing!

Record your own voice with the microphone.

Click File>New>Audio file. Give it a name, click ok.

Turn on your microphone. Click the record button and start talking. Avoid clipping my moving the microphone farther away from your mouth.

Make a multitrack session.

Add sound effects (I'll show you how to capture music another day, you have to master sound effects first)

Sound sources here

Uncle Bubby's sound effects

FindSounds

Free Acid Loops