Adobe Audition CC 2018

What's New in Adobe Audition 2018?

Auto-duck music

While working on a project, automatically generate a volume envelope to duck music behind dialogue, sound effects, or any other audio clip using the Ducking parameter in the Essential Sound panel. This feature simplifies the steps needed to achieve professional-sounding audio mixes.

Multitrack clip improvements

When recording punch-ins or layering sounds, clip Z-order is now maintained when selecting stacked clips so that smaller clips don’t get lost behind longer ones. Commands in the clip content menu make it easy to move clips to the front or back, and preferences allow users to customize the behavior. More improvements allow for symmetrical clip fades, or adjusting fade curves or duration independently.

Support for Mackie HUI capable devices

This release of Audition includes support for the Mackie HUI control surface protocol. To control your mix, transport, and automation in Audition, use HUI emulation mode with almost all modern control surfaces..

Dynamics effect

A new, modern version of the classic but discontinued Adobe Premiere Pro Dynamics audio effect has been introduced to Audition and Premiere Pro CC. This simple yet powerful plug-in offers a compressor, expander, limiter, and noise gate in one easy-to-use tool.

Input monitoring

Input monitoring allows you to preview the input coming from your recording device before starting the actual recording by either observing the level meters or listening to it.

Timecode overlay

This release of Audition lets you view session and media timecode overlays in the Video panel. You can also lock your video output to your external display. The timecode overlay displays the current time display string as an overlay on the Video panel and the video fullscreen monitor.

Multichannel audio workflows     

Multichannel audio workflows allow you to separate all audio channels to unique clips automatically. You can customize the channels assigned to a clip and adjust Specific Channel Routing.

Enhanced interchange with Premiere Pro

This feature enhances the Edit in Audition workflow when sending Premiere Pro sequences to Audition. Audition now supports Premiere Pro project files as the default interchange format. This allows transferring significantly more information to Audition, such as Effects and their Parameters, Submixes, and Essential Sound Panel settings.

Visual keyboard shortcut editor

Use the Visual Keyboard Shortcut Editor to see which keys have been assigned shortcuts and which are available for assignment. A tooltip reveals the full command name when you hover over a key in the Keyboard layout. When you select a modifier key on the keyboard layout, the keyboard displays all the shortcuts that require the modifier.

Updated audio effects

Many existing audio effects now have spectrum meters, gain meters, and gain reduction meters. You can use the frequency spectrum to identify imbalances in audio and use control points to correct them. Level Meter shows the input level of the audio, and Gain Reduction Meter shows how audio signals are compressed or expanded.

Guides for getting started  

The new onboarding experience offers new users a series of guided walkthroughs of common tasks. These guides help you navigate the core functionality and capabilities with ease, including reducing background noise, mixing audio elements, and producing a simple podcast. Coach marks and concise tutorials are offered inside the application to help you get started with Audition.

Essential Sound panel    

The Essential Sound panel gives you a complete toolset to mix your audio and achieve professional-quality output. The panel provides simple controls to unify volume levels, repair sound, improve clarity, and add special effects — so your video projects sound like a professional audio engineer has mixed them. You can save the applied adjustments as presets for reuse in Audition, making them handy for more audio refinements.

Direct export from Audition with Media Encoder

Audition can now export your edited audio directly to Adobe Media Encoder CC. This feature enables a fully linear post-production workflow, using format presets and audio channel customization without rendering or wrangling various mixdown files.

Remixing and adjusting song duration

Create remixes of music files from a collection. For example, you can take a song that has a longer duration and create a shorter version that still sounds like the original. You can recompose any piece of music in your collection to fit the video or project duration.

Synthesized speech

Type or paste text, and generate a realistic voiceover or narration track. Use this tool to create synthesized voices for videos, games, and audio productions.

Automatic loudness correction

Match loudness in audio clips, and apply correction to support various loudness standards and true peak limiting. The Match Loudness panel replaces the old Match Volume panel.