Adobe Audition Workshop - Essentials

Key Terms

Sample Rate is the number of samples of a sound that are taken per second to represent the event digitally. 48hz is a standard sample rate setting for Premier Pro.

Panning is the manipulation of audio, enabling it to emit from different speakers for a more 'rounded' sound.

Bit depth is an indication of audio quality.

Sample Rate and Bit Depth can be managed through the project settings in Adobe Audition, as seen in the image below.

Organisation within Audition can be managed by colour coding. By right clicking on the coloured tab next to an audio track in the 'multitrack' workspace, a user is able to choose a colour for the selected track.

The 'mixer' allows users to adjust the volume of individual tracks, rather than the master volume. This technique allows you to remove red peaks in the audio without affecting other attributes, such as lows.

The 'Radar Meter' is a tool to help visualise the continuity of volume. The 'peak' indication lets users know when the audio is at its highest point in the clip, further changes and editing can then be added. If the 'peak' indication turns on whilst the audio volume is in the yellow zone, then the audio is at a suitable level and won't distort when exported.

Audio can be adapted further using 'Essential Sound' Pre-sets, which can be seen below.

'Ducking' is a tool that can help smooth sound. Audition allows users to edit this manually, or with the auto-ducking feature. A definition for ducking comments that "The level of one audio signal is reduced by the presence of another signal".

Looping clips is an extremely common technique, especially when mixing music. Looping can be achieved by right clicking over a clip and choosing 'loop'. Additional loops can be added by holding the ALT key and dragging the clip over, creating multiple copies of the same clip. The 'bars and beats' tool helps to sync loops to a beat, or to a continuous rhythm.