Welcome to Hart's Audition
Hello, everyone! Now that Adobe has this blogging system set up and we've launched a new version of Adobe Audition (along with the new Adobe Production Studio), I thought this would be a great time to start up my own blog.
First, the 10-second bio: my name is Hart Shafer, and in 1997 I was lucky enough to answer a want ad in the newspaper and get hired by Syntrillium Software as their sixth employee. After doing several different jobs there I started working in product management for Cool Edit 2000 and have been the product manager at Syntrillium, and then here at Adobe, ever since.
My intent is to make this blog a useful spot for news and information related to Audition as I see it from my perspective. If there's anything in particular you would like to see me include, just let me know in the comments section. I hope you find it useful, or at least interesting!
Comments
My Cool Edit 2000 appears to be sabotaged. It saves everything at 128 bitrate, even though I repeatedly set it higher. I also received a 'request to update' window. I tried reinstalling it, but it won't allow me to enter my serial number. I would very much like to get my program (which I paid for, of course) up and running again.
Posted by: Peter Sanderson | December 28, 2008 8:14 PM
Hi all -
I have a couple old licenses for CE2K. Do any of the "newer" Adobe brands/packages support CE's FFT and statistical freq/level analysis? My work is primarily telephony/VoIP lab testing rather than studio production, so analysis and single/dual tone generation in WAV, PCM and VOX formats are important.
Regards,
Dave
Dave, check out the demo of Audition to see what it can do. It has support for VOX and PCM, along with the analysis and generation capabilities of Cool Edit. --Hart
Posted by: Dave Duggan | December 1, 2008 12:42 PM
Hart, Audition and before that, Cool Edit have been the standard for international award-winning public radio documentaries which my not-for-profit educational corp. produces. But I've been having massive problems keeping them (Cool Edit 1.2 & 2.0/ Audition software) usable. I upgraded step-by-step; got Audition 1.0 as a download, then when it went South Adobe refused to re-enable, and forced me to buy 2.0 last year when it did not work with my DAL Card Deluxe. So I cancelled the purchase. A year later now and I can't get 2.0 reactivated, or seem to use my serial number to upgrade to 3.0. Can you help me get an upgrade to 3.0 with my license/keys for my still-working Cool Edit licenses?
I'm sorry to hear about your troubles, and I've forwarded your message on to the team. --Hart
Posted by: Alan Lipke | August 21, 2008 8:41 AM
Hi all,
I was just wondering if there are any plans to develop Audition for the Mac. I have a G5, and really don't want to migrate to a Windows platform, but I think that CoolEdit was by far the best audio editing tool available, and Audition is surely better. I'd like to find out!
Posted by: Wes Hanson | December 15, 2006 5:20 PM
Jim,
If you contact Adobe customer service they should be able to get you set up again.
--Hart
Posted by: Hart Shafer | December 4, 2006 9:21 AM
Hello Hart. I have been a Cool Edit user since you became the sixth employee. Trouble is, my hard drive crashed and I lost my trusted CE2k. Of course I can download the trial version, but I have no way to enter my registration. Neither do I have the small applet I was originally sent when I paid for the full version of CE2k. How do I now get my full version back? Thanks.
Posted by: Jim Seward | December 3, 2006 10:01 PM
Jamie,
That's great! I really enjoyed Far Cry (and thought it was amazing looking).
As for the keyboard triggering, no there's no real way to do that. The closest you can get is triggering marker ranges in a single file using the computer keyboard. Just name any marker range (it has to have a length) to be named "KEY X" (without the quotes) and then when you press X Audition will play that range. It doesn't record it, though, so it's only useful for auditioning parts of a sound. Note that "X" and "x" are different keys in this scenario!
Posted by: Hart Shafer | February 13, 2006 4:15 PM
Greetings from the game industry :) I just wanted to say that Audition has become my favorite program for building sound effects for video games. Especially since version 2. Audition is just so fast that I can cut/paste and make all sorts of precision edits in no time. I think it would be amazing if I could audition multiple files in the files window from a midi keyboard and record the results; auto assigning the files to map across 88 keys. This would provide a ultra fast way to experiment and mix sounds without the need for a sampler. Is something like this possible already?
Regards,
Jamie
Posted by: Jamie | February 12, 2006 8:03 AM
I think you should try out for a band - just for the experience!
I made the link to this at AudioMasters sticky (by request) - so you may get a few more readers because of this - I hope it goes well.
Posted by: Steve Garnett | January 18, 2006 10:29 AM
I'm very excited about your blog. Thanks for posting info over at Audio Masters Forum. I too would love to hear a bit more in general terms about the team that creates this wonderful tool. Very excited to keep up with your blog.
Posted by: Brian Hart | January 18, 2006 5:54 AM
This is a welcome innovation, Hart.
I'd be interested to know where you "come from" - is your background in music performance, recording, or software development? Or maybe a bit of each? And without naming names, can you give us a feel for the rest of the team from this point of view. It's always interesting to know just how like-minded the development team are to the rest of us engineers/musicians. I certainly get the impression that the team there do come at it from the point of view of end-users as well as Adobe persons.
Posted by: Peter Nicholls | January 17, 2006 7:26 PM
Woohoo! The first comment posted on Hart's blog.
Good on ya, mate. I'll be checking your blog regularly.
Cheers,
Bruce.
Posted by: Bruce Williams | January 17, 2006 6:55 PM