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For those of you who aren’t yet running Audition 2 in your studios, informit.com has posted a sample chapter from the Audition 1.5 Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press. The chapter is titled Recording Sound with Adobe Audition, and covers setting up your hardware devices, recording, and how to extract audio from CD.
My little analytics applet indicates that at least a few of you are visiting from Japan so I thought I'd mention that I just got a copy of a DVD that's the first 3rd party training DVD I know of produced in Japan. It looks like it's in affiliation with Sound Designer magazine, but it's also listed as only 55 minutes, which may be too short to get into depth. Still, it could be a great overview--I'd be curious to hear anyone's opinions if you've seen it. The back lists an email address of info@musicmaster.jp for those who are interested
Here's a picture of the case so you can learn more if you'd like:
Click here for a zoomed in shot of the information on the back of the case.
The wave continues! I missed that Electronic Musician included a review by Allan Metts in its August issue. It doesn't look like the review is posted online, but Audition scores a 4/5 and Allan comments that "Adobe Audition has evolved into a powerful platform for multitrack recording, mixing and mastering" and concludes with, “If you need a solid program for multitrack recording and editing, with loads of built-in effects and lots of royalty-free content, then Audition is hard to beat.”
A press release just crossed my desk today (dated August 10th so I guess I'm a few days out of the loop) announcing that computer training site Lynda.com has added 6 hours of training on Audition 2. The training is hosted by Bruce Williams, who I've blogged about before--he's the creator of the Build the Pod series of podcasts on Audition.
For those of you who aren't familiar, Lynda.com structures paying for training a bit differently than most people are used to. Instead of buying individual training series, you can pay per-month or per-year for access to all the training they provide, and then access your subscription online. It's a really appealing method for a lot of folks, especially if they have training on more than one application you want to learn. If you want to sample first, several of the Audition movies are available free of charge.
Often there’s a second wave of reviews about 6 months after a product is released, and we’re clearly in the midst of that! Here’s another one for Audition 2, this time from more of a video perspective, posted on iofilm.co.uk.
Audition 2.0 is a great move forward on the previous version, particularly in its new look and feel. It is more than up to the task for most film and video projects and greater integration with Premiere Pro 2.0 and After Effects 7.0 can only make life easier.
The reviewer doesn’t go into as much depth on the individual features as some do, but he does spend some time discussing the mixing and automation in some depth and also provides a nice overview and his impressions across the board for the new features.
There's a PDF copy of a new review of Audition 2 up atPerforming Songwriter magazine. One of the cool things about this one is that the editor specifically chose one of his staff that didn't have any experience with Audition before so the reviewer, Dave Jones, comes in without any preconceived notions and comes out impressed. He concludes with:
Finally, a digital audio production studio that delivers all that it claims. Adobe Audition can handle all of your audio work from conception to mastering.
Sorry for the gap in posts--I just spent a couple weeks taking a much needed break and feel great for having done it. I spent a while in Glacier National Park and the only piece of electronics that I came into contact with for those days (other than my car) was my camera. There wasn't a WiFi or cell signal to be had in any case. Glorious unreachability.
But the world moves on! One of the first things I saw in my overloaded inbox when I came in this morning was a link to this great article on PopMatters.com with Roger McGuinn. The interview is fun, with lots of questions about Roger's Folk Den project where he's posting a new folk song to the web each month in an effort to keep traditional songs from dying out. He covers subjects from his new box set, which artists from today he thinks will stand the test of time, his early influences, and how technology has changed music production. It was this section that made it cross my inbox, and you can tell which part was my favorite. Says Roger:
I don't have to go to the big studio anymore. I can fire up a laptop and get the same quality recording that you used to only get in the studio...my favorite one is Adobe Audition, and it's got so many plug-ins that it's just like a million-dollar studio in a box. It's just amazing.
I had the good fortune to spend some time with Roger a few years ago when he was on tour starting some of these Folk Den recordings. He prefers to drive everywhere rather than fly and he came through Phoenix and stopped by the Syntrillium offices there. We spent the afternoon talking his project, our software, and he graced us with a little banjo performance right there in our conference room which I'll never forget.
Anyway, I'd recommend it as an interesting interview (even beyond the Audition plug). Check it out here!
Between August 8th and August 16th Adobe will be doing a short 4-city Production Studio seminar tour. We’ll be hitting:
Each day has a morning and afternoon session that have the same content so you can choose what works best for your schedule. More information is available here, or if you know you want to register you can sign up here. All attendees will receive a coupon worth $200 off the Production Studio or $100 off the upgrade, and while the seminars are free they do tend to fill up, so it’s best to sign up early if you’re interested.