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I’m happy to announce that Audition has won the Podcast and Portable Media Expo Best of Show award for PC Audio Editing Software for the second year in a row!

As I mentioned earlier, if you’re in the area stop by and say hi. The show floor has been packed all day, and it’s a lot of fun talking to a very different crowd then I see at most of the trade shows I go to, like NAMM, NAB, and AES. If this show is any indication, podcasting is really hitting its stride as an industry in itself.

Broadcast Newsroom, the broadcast news portal portion of Digital Media Net, has published a short walkthrough on automation lanes in Audition 2.0. The author Frank Moldstad walks through what’s new, how to set up your lanes, and the kinds of parameters you can use.

Later this week I’ll be heading down to the Podcast and Portable Media Expo which is being held this Friday and Saturday, the 29th and 30th, in Ontario, California. This is the expo’s second year and I’ll be down there with some of the Audition gang to show folks how Audition can be a great application for recording and editing your podcasts. Come on down if you’re in the area (details are here), and if you do come the make sure to stop by booth #411 to say hi while you’re there!

Also, just a reminder that we posted a short PDF on why Audition is great for podcasting on the Audition product page.

So, this is a bit outside my normal topics, but a friend just sent me this link to a YouTube video of a Four-Year-Old drummer who is surprisingly good. My friend used the term “prodigy” and I’m not sure I’d argue that one. I’ve seen a few bands over the years that could have certainly used his talents!

Here’s a random one for a Wednesday morning. An artist named Martin Wattenberg has put together a method of showing the repetition in a song. You feed his algorithm a MIDI file and it will produce a graphic that looks like this:

Madonna’s Like a Prayer

Not particularly useful, per se, but I found the shapes and images to be fascinating. More information about how the algorithm works can be found here and the tool itself is in java here. The link to the tool also includes a bunch of the MIDI files he’s used so you can see the results on a wide range of songs.

Found via Music Thing

One of the smaller but very handy features we added in Audition 2 was the ability to mix down your multitrack sessions and send them directly to the CD view for burning. That means you can do things like space out your CD tracks exactly as you’ll want them to be heard, complete with crossfades and spacing, using all the tools the multitrack view puts at your disposal. Click through for the how-to.

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Here’s a free treat that I was tipped off to: Lynda.com has a trial that you can use to get 24 hours of access to the training on the site. Just go here and fill out all the information to get your free 24-hour trial and see if you think the training is worth subscribing to after you’ve gotten a taste. Lynda.com recently added several hours of training on Audition 2 and has training on dozens of other applications.