Adobe Audition 3
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Software Reviews of Adobe Audition 3
Customer Review: Vista users Beware
Summary: 1 Stars
I wish I had come to Amazon.com first. Could have saved myself a lot of time and money, not to mention tons of frustration. After an AA 3.0.1 Patch, a vague web reference to opening as an Admin [ right click on shortcut icon, 3rd from the top]. Installing then unistalling ASIO because the program kept saying 'no audio device found'. It still did not work.
After calling it quits for the day and praying and sleeping on it . . . I awoke this morning cursing Adobe, but I had purchased the program from EBay and returning it was not an option.
I went back into AA and the edit hardware and poked around again. Finally realized that the default was Output and I needed Input.
For what I want to do, I'll bet that Audacity would have worked fine.
The one star is for installation. I have no idea how good the program is. I am just thankful that it is working at all and that I do not have a 300 dollar bookend.
And like my son, once this computer breaks I am buying a Mac. I have had it with MS changing platforms so often and software companies unable or unwilling to keep-up.
And Adobe - shame on you - this program has been out long enough for you to have fixed the bugs and put a more comprehensive work around on your site.
Thank gawd for Google search and the people who post their solutions.Adobe Audition 3
Customer Review: Sucks
Summary: 1 Stars
I have been doing commercial radio production for years using CE Pro
and Audition 1.5. Our company just recently purchased vista workstations
and new additions of Adobe Audition 3.0 for us to produce and edit
radio spots.... And i got to say compared to the speed and efficiency
of 1.5 Audition 3.0 totally SUCKS.. It takes about 7 extra steps to do
anything. I'm sure its great for music recording but when your trying to
rip and read spots all day 3.0 is a big fat dead cow. Most of us now just
bring our own laptops in and use 1.5 or Audacity. My average production time
for basic spots was about 5 spots an hour now with 3.0 I'm lucky to
get 1 or 2 spots an hour. When you have quick turn around times and need
to get stuff on the air Audition 3.0 just doesn't cut it. If you have a
lot of time on your hands and a lot of HDD space maybe 3.0 is for you but in
my opinion its by far the worse piece of software Adobe has produced.
Customer Review: Adobe Audition 3
Summary: 5 Stars
I think that your want to do projects this would be a great piece of software for you to pick up. Customer Review: Great for audio; MIDI not so great
Summary: 3 Stars
For pure audio editing tasks, Audition is right on target. The available effects are excellent, as are the various other editing functions. Ease of use is exemplary. Although I commend Adobe for attempting to include a MIDI sequencer/editor as part of the package, this unfortunately is where the program falls far short of expectations. For those wanting to play their VST software instruments along with their audio tracks in real time, the setup process to do so is very confusing, convoluted, and extremely poorly-documented at best -- making it pretty impossible to figure out. MIDI editing is extremely limited. Third party VST effects plugins are virtually useless. For MIDI recording/sequencing/editing, stick to programs such as Cubase and Sonar. So, for the audio editing side of things, definitely five stars. For MIDI integration, two stars. Customer service -- just to simply transfer an authorization to an another computer -- was ATROCIOUS. Both of my experiences with this were nightmares, dealing with "customer service" reps who spoke broken English unintelligibly and as fast as possible -- then were quite rude to me and very sarcastic when I asked them (very politely, I might add) to speak more slowly. That's MINUS one star -- my average:3.Customer Review: Doesn't even start up
Summary: 1 Stars
Adobe Audition was a great program before it was owned by Adobe, when it was called Cooledit. If it works, it has a great and useful set of features. Helas, depending on how your computer is configured, you won't be able to even launch Adobe Audition 3: It will just crash. This problem is known to Adobe for several years, but they didn't bother to correct this bug, or even to answer your emails if you write to them. You can find work-arounds on the Adobe Audition Forums, but don't expect this program to work out of the box. Also, in addition to many other bugs, note that Adobe installs a spyware service (Adobe LM Service) that you can't disable.
Unless you look for a specific feature that only Adobe Audition has, I would recommend that you try to get hold of an old version of CoolEdit, or to try out Audacity, which is free, works, and has no spyware.