Adobe Audition 2024 free for PC, Mac

Adobe Audition stands out as being one of the best options for digital audio editing at a professional level. Stacked with features that allow you to record and mix podcasts and radio shows, as well as compose and design sound effects for audiovisual productions, you will always get the very best results with Adobe Audition.

What is Adobe Audition?

Adobe Audition is a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) developed by Adobe for recording and mixing audio for audiovisual content, podcasts, and sound effect design. It also features tools to clean up and restore audio in a non-destructive way.

Adobe Audition offers a comprehensive set of tools and features that allow you to manipulate, enhance, and refine audio recordings. It supports multi-track editing, allowing for precise control over individual audio clips and tracks. You can perform various editing operations like cutting, trimming, fading, and crossfading audio segments.

It is widely used by audio professionals, musicians, podcasters, and sound designers for tasks such as recording, editing, mixing, mastering, and restoring audio files.

What are the key features of Adobe Audition?

• Interface: It features a professional-grade modular interface you can organize the way you want depending on your work. All the different panels can be moved depending on your activity, whether it is radio production, mastering, analysis, or anything else. It is a game changer as you can work more efficiently and effortlessly.
• Audio editing: It features two main modes called Waveform and Multitrack. The Multitrack view looks like a normal DAW where you can drop audio clips on different tracks, mix segments, cut or trim clips, and more in a non-destructive manner. On the other hand, using the Waveform view, you can record audio and adjust its parameters easily, like changing the audio, modifying the frequency using the spectral frequency editor, etc. However, this time, you will work in an audio-destructive way.
• Audio restoration: Audition features many different dedicated tools to restore and remove anything you don't want in an audio file in a non-destructive way. DeReverb allows you to remove or reduce any bit of reverb effect in an audio file, DeNoise can remove hiss and hum in existing files in real-time, and you can preview the noise. The Sound Remover is also a big step forward, as it can totally remove any noise from a track, like a constant noise, a phone ringtone, people screaming, or anything else. Of course, it features other specific tools depending on your needs.

• Loudness Meter: The bane of all sound engineers' lives in post-production is getting the volume levels correct for a pleasurable experience for the listener, and they want to maintain a consistent noise level from one recording to another. With Adobe Audition, keeping it smooth is simple, as you can drag files into the Loudness Meter window and adjust the settings to match previous recordings.
• Multitrack: The Multitrack view allows you to handle multiple audio channels from MXF or other video files and visualize the multiple routing of the source channels. For example, you can record a scene with several microphones, and Audition will let you store and use them as separate files.
• Favorites: It lets you set up macros to perform a series of common operations on waves, such as normalizing, converting, or anything else that will make you save time and make sure everything is done correctly.

• Batch processing: This general-purpose feature allows you to apply an action to many clips, like matching an entire group of clips or analyzing frequencies. Note that Batch processing can be used with the Favorite feature to bring semi-automation to the next level.

• Scoring and Effects: For those looking to apply alternative effects in post-production, Adobe Audition allows you to use effects on entire tracks or specific parts in a non-destructive way. In addition, it can seamlessly handle up to 128 tracks and record 32 channels simultaneously, and it comes with over 10,000 sound effects and several thousand royalty-free loops.

• Compatibility: Adobe Audition lets you work with the most popular digital audio formats. You can import and export mono or stereo audio files in WAV, AIFF, MP3, AU, FLAC, and many others.

• Cross-software: Audition is compatible with Adobe Premiere Pro video editor projects, so metadata, effects, and sound panel settings can be easily transferred from the video editor to Audition.

• More: It doesn't stop there as it offers many other features like Remix to automate cutting song versions very easily, adjusts a song's target duration, and many more.

How to use Adobe Audition?

You can consult the very well-documented Adobe Audition user guide. You can also learn the basics or hone your skills via the several tutorials for beginner and experienced users.

Is Adobe Audition free?

We offer you the 7-day demo version of Adobe Audition, but you can purchase one of the available plans for individual users, students or teachers, businesses, schools, or universities.

Is Adobe Audition safe?

Yes, it is considered safe like other Adobe products. To know more about how your data are managed by Adobe, check their privacy policy.

Can Adobe Audition record computer audio?

Yes, of course, Adobe Audition can record system audio:

1. Go to Preferences > Audio Hardware...
2. A new window will open.
3. From the Default Input dropdown list, select the right device.

Can Adobe Audition edit video?

Yes, it can, but it is not its primary purpose, so it provides limited features for that kind of task. For video editing, you should opt for Adobe Premiere Pro.

What is the difference between Adobe Audition and Adobe Audition CC?

Adobe Audition CC is a more modernized software with some upgraded and new tools also added to its library. In comparison, Adobe Audition has limited tools required for necessary editing.

Is Adobe Audition better than Premiere Pro?

Adobe Audition has been designed for optimal results regarding sound and audio. On the other hand, Adobe Premiere Pro is optimized for video and image editing.

Is Audacity better than Adobe Audition?

Audacity is an open-source and free-to-use cross-platform audio software that can be simpler to use for beginners, but it features a less polished interface and may not feature as many options as Adobe Audition does.

Adobe Audition provides a very clean and modern interface while offering top-notch audio editing features. Still, it may be considered a bit too much for beginners.

Which is better: FL Studio or Adobe Audition?

Comparing many sources, Adobe Audition stands out as a powerful digital audio workstation and holds a leading position in the industry. What sets it apart from FL Studio is its compatibility with various operating systems, making it accessible from any modern computer. Additionally, Adobe Audition offers a vast library of over one hundred pre-designed sounds and music tracks, providing users with a convenient resource for their audio production needs.