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Audio Editing with Adobe Audition

Richard Riley

192 pp * 236 x 189 mm  ISBN 1870775 945   £14.95

Key features

* Create your own audio soundtracks
* Use loops and waveforms to create original compositions
* Learn to use Audition's effects and editing tools
* Create spot and foley effects
* Produce your own layers, pads and jingles
* Mastering and production tips

This book enables developers and non-audiophiles to quickly grasp the concepts and techniques used by Adobe Audition to produce high quality audio soundtracks for any application, including Adobe Premiere and other video editing software.

For advanced users there are detailed explanations of the use of digital effects and other techniques, along with detailed 'how to' procedures on multitrack recording, mixing, editing and production. In addition the book contains real world tips on getting the best from Adobe Audition in the shortest possible time.

And when you are ready to commit, use the detailed explanations of mastering and CD burning to ensure that your Adobe Audition creation sounds just as fresh away from your studio as it did the day you created it.

Richard Riley is an established author, musician, producer and professional computer technician and a long term user of Adobe Audition since its origins as a shareware wave editor.

Contents

1 Introduction to Adobe Audition
Installation
Running Adobe Audition for the first time
Starting the program

2 A quick start guide to Adobe Audition
Instant gratification
Import a movie into Adobe Audition
Add waveforms to your soundtrack
Playback cursor, cues and ranges
Export the soundtrack with the movie

3 Building, layering and producing your original soundtrack
Change the feel of the soundtrack using volume
Adjusting volume and pan for a track
Soloing and muting tracks
Track EQ (equalisation or tone controls)
Add digital effects to a track
Advanced digital effects
Using envelopes to create fade out and fade in effects
Additional multitrack properties
Saving your multitrack session

4 Advanced multitrack editing and recording
A brief introduction to 'non linear' or hard disk recording
Recording directly into a Multitrack session - multitrack recording
Recording the first track
The Mix Gauge and background mixing
Recording a new Multitrack session using bars and beats
Translating loop values to musical notation
Simple duplication

5 Adobe Audition as a virtual recording studio
Creating a brand new composition
Managing a session
Mixing down

6 MIDI and SMTPE/MTC
MIDI file formats
SMPTE / MTC synchronisation
MIDI triggering
Using the PC as a SMPTE slave to an external
device
Remixing legacy recordings from tape

7 Edit View
Navigating the Edit View
File operations
Selecting and editing the new waveform
Saving waveform files
Partitioning the waveform using cues
Auto-Cue
Using cues to create loops in the Edit View
Saving selections as a new file
Recording single waveforms in the Edit View
Troubleshooting
Using Adobe Audition to create sound

8 Using effects in Edit View
Direct X and other effects
Amplitude and envelope effects
Delay effects
Filters and EQ
Advanced tools and digital effects
Special effects
Time and pitch effects
Other 'workshop' features for converting and editing waveforms in the Edit View
Analyze menu
Options menu
Favourites

9 Real time effects and mixers
Differences between effects in Edit View and Multitrack View
Modulation effects
Direct X Effects, plug-ins and effects from other software
Track Mixer

10 Mixdown and mastering your soundtrack
Creating a finished product
Post Production

11 Advanced configuration
Advanced configuration
SMPTE
Useful things to do and know about Adobe Audition
Recommended platforms
Preparing your PC for Adobe Audition
Disabling non-essential programs at startup
Tweaking Windows 9x
Tune legacy settings in system.ini
Hard disks and hard disk optimisation
Session recovery
Removable storage
Choosing a sound card
Further explanation of digital recording and reproduction

12 Glossary

Index

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