If you’re puzzled or frustrated that the audio in your project stops playing back or recording when you leave the Adobe Audition window, let me assure you there is a reason.  You’re not crazy.
This is a natural reaction to the settings for your sound card.  Follow along by opening Audition, clicking on the “Edit” menu, [...]

Horror movies are en vogue.  Beginning with the success of early hits like Cabin Fever, Hostel, and Saw, studios have taken a delicious descent into the sublime and scary.  Names like Lakeshore, Intrepid, Rogue, Twisted, Lionsgate, Screen Gems, Platinum Dunes, and others are now household names and calling cards among “in the know” horror fans.  [...]

 

 Justin Lassen Interview [11:53m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

If you use Audition for the same types of tasks each day, this tip may help to save you time.  In my case, I spent most of my time in Audition creating production for radio.  I like to have things laid out in a certain way, because it’s faster for me.  For example, I like [...]

As I mentioned in the previous post and podcast, if you’re digging around in the menus with any frequency, it’s time to step back and set some shortcut keys.
Almost any task or effect you can think of can be pulled up in record time by assigning it a shortcut key. And, thankfully, you’re not [...]

What are your hands doing when you’re producing? Here is some audio riffing about the philosophy of your hand movement, shortcut keys, and presets.
Related Posts:
-  Assigning Shortcut Keys and Sets
The Audio:
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 Podcast: The Philosophy of Your Hands [6:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

While I’m sure you save your projects with the uncompressed versions of all its constituent waveforms, when it comes time to send out a file to a client or upload a piece to your site, you’re most likely going to encode as MP3. In Audition, this is very easy, and most of us are [...]

If you live mostly indoors away from sunlight in a dark room (like I do), you might want to “dim” the brightness of the Audition user interface to be easier on your eyes. Maybe you have vision problems and need the colors to be of higher contrast.  Or, maybe you just want the program [...]

Bit depth. Bit rate. Dynamic range. These are all considerations you should become used to pondering when you undertake a multi-track project or a simple edit. I’m not going to get terribly scientific, but I am going to give you a general look at what’s under the hood when you are [...]

There’s nothing worse than the aftermath of a computer crash, where you’re left to re-install and re-configure all your programs, presets, workspaces, and such. I can’t save you the install, but I can show you how to preserve all your presets, workspaces, and keyboard shortcuts in Audition. (This is also useful if you [...]