Adobe CS 5.5 Audition, Upgrade version from Audition 1, CS2/3 (Mac)

Sound your best

Adobe® Audition® CS5.5 software delivers the professional tools you need to make your video and audio productions sound their best. Handle a wide range of audio production tasks efficiently, including recording, mixing, and sound restoration. Create, edit, and enhance audio for broadcast, video, and film--now on both Mac OS and Windows.

Bring new efficiency and editing power to your post-production project with Adobe® Audition® CS5.5 software, now available for both Mac OS and Windows.® A supercharged, new audio engine helps you get more done quickly with background processing, simultaneous multiple sessions and effects-editing during playback. Native, multichannel file support lets you apply the best editing and effects in the business to your surround projects. New and improved noise reduction and sweetening make it easy to clean up production audio. With the versatility that fast-turn projects require, Adobe Audition gives you complete control over every aspect of your audio.

• Native Mac OS support Record, mix, edit, and master your audio with a powerful cross-platform audio toolset: Adobe Audition CS5.5 runs natively on Mac OS X v10.5 and v10.6 as well as on Windows® operating systems.


• High-performance audio engine Work faster with the new audio engine in Adobe Audition. From opening and saving files to processing multicore effects and simultaneously editing multiple sessions, Adobe Audition CS5.5 offers greater speed throughout the audio production process.


• Roundtrip editing with Adobe Premiere® Pro Sweeten audio for video easily. Pass individual clips and multitrack mixes from Adobe Premiere Pro to Adobe Audition for editing, or send Adobe Premiere® Pro sequences with a reference video to Adobe Audition for complete soundtrack creation.


• Project exchange with third-party NLEs and popular DAWs Easily move sessions between Adobe Audition and Avid Pro Tools using built-in OMF import and export functions in Adobe Audition. Share files with third-party NLEs via XML interchange.


• Native 5.1 multichannel support Edit multichannel files and mix your projects in 5.1 surround. Adobe Audition CS5.5 includes a Surround Panner in the Mixer View, as well as a new Surround Reverb effect, and Amplify, a multichannel gain processor.


• Effects workflow enhancements Edit and play audio while adjusting settings for multiple effects simultaneously in the new modeless effects racks. Experiment with different effect settings while making selections or edits in the Waveform Editor.


• Royalty-free content in Adobe Resource Central* Use the new Resource Central panel in Adobe Audition CS5.5 to access thousands of royalty-free sound effects and other audio content that you can drag and drop directly into your creative projects.
  *Adobe online services, including Adobe CS Live Services, are available only to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional terms and Adobe’s online privacy policy (available at www.adobe.com/go/terms). Online services are not available in all countries or languages, may require user registration and may be subject to change or discontinuation without notice. Additional fees or subscription charges may apply.


• Native audio effects Improve performance with native support for audio effects. Effects added in Adobe Audition CS5.5 include a DeHummer, DeEsser, Speech Volume Leveler, and Surround Reverb for working with 5.1 surround projects.


• Simplified XMP metadata panel View and edit XMP metadata using a simplified interface. Support for XMP metadata includes the Broadcast WAV Format (BWF) schema, enabling automated workflows within Adobe Creative Suite® Production Premium and other radio and TV production systems.


• Auto-saved XML session files Save your sessions in the robust, flexible, and nondestructive XML format. Undo unwanted changes with the new History panel. Import Adobe Audition 3 sessions and then save them as XML.