Contents

Getting Started

About Classroom in a Book

What’s in this book

Prerequisites

Installing Adobe Audition

Starting Adobe Audition

Accessing the Classroom in a Book files

Restoring default preferences

Additional resources

Audition and social media

Adobe certification

1 Audio Interfacing

Audio interface basics

Mac OS X audio setup

Windows setup

Testing inputs and outputs with Audition (Mac or Windows)

Using external interfaces

2 The Audition Environment

Audition’s dual personality

The Audition Workspace

Navigation

3 Basic Editing

Opening a file for editing

Selecting a region for editing and changing its level

Cutting, deleting, and pasting audio regions

Cutting and pasting with multiple clipboards

Extending and shortening musical selections

Simultaneous mixing and pasting

Repeating part of a waveform to create a loop

Showing waveform data under the cursor

Fading regions to reduce artifacts

4 Signal Processing

Effects basics

Using the Effects Rack

Amplitude and Compression effects

Delay and echo effects

Filter and EQ effects

Modulation effects

Noise reduction/restoration

Reverb effects

Special effects

Stereo imagery effects

Time and Pitch effect

Third-party effects (VST and AU)

Using the Effects menu

Managing presets

5 Audio Restoration

About audio restoration

Reducing hiss

Reducing crackles

Reducing pops and clicks

Reducing broadband noise

De-humming a file

Removing artifacts

Manual artifact removal

Alternate click removal

Sound removal

6 Mastering

Mastering basics

Step 1: equalization

Step 2: dynamics

Step 3: ambience

Step 4: stereo imaging

Step 5: “push” the drum hits; then apply the changes

Mastering diagnostics

7 Sound Design

About sound design

Creating rain sounds

Creating a babbling brook

Creating insects at night

Creating an alien choir

Creating sci-fi machine effects

Creating an alien drone flyby

Extracting frequency bands

8 Creating and Recording Files

Recording into the Waveform Editor

Recording into the Multitrack Editor

Checking remaining free space

Drag-and-dropping into an Audition Editor

Importing tracks as individual files from an audio CD

Importing tracks as a single file from an audio CD

Saving a template

9 Multitrack Editor Orientation

About multitrack production

Multitrack and Waveform Editor integration

Changing track colors

Loop selections for playback

Track controls

Channel mapping in the Multitrack Editor

Side-chaining effects

10 The Multitrack Mixer View

Mixer view basics

11 Editing Clips

Creating a DJ-style continuous music mix (mixtape) with crossfading

Mixing or exporting a collection of clips as a single file

Selecting and merging all clips in a track into a single file

Editing for length

Clip edits: Split, Trim, Volume

Extending a clip via looping

12 Creating Music with Sound Libraries

About sound libraries

Getting started

Building a rhythm track

Adding percussion

Adding melodic elements

Using loops with different pitch and tempo

Adding effects

13 Recording in the Multitrack Editor

Getting ready to record a track

Setting up the metronome

Recording a part in a track

Recording an additional part (overdub)

“Punching” over a mistake

Composite recording

14 Automation

About automation

Clip automation

Track automation

15 Mixing

About mixing

Testing your acoustics

The mixing process

Exporting a stereo mix of the song

Burning an audio CD of the song

Exporting to SoundCloud

Index

BONUS LESSON 16 CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM THE LESSON & UPDATE FILES TAB ON YOUR PEACHPIT ACCOUNT PAGE

16 Audio/Video Applications

Importing a video

Automatic Speech Alignment

Audition integration with Adobe Premiere Pro

Bonus chapters mentioned in this eBook are available after the index