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Adobe Audition, formerly Cool Edit Pro, is a digital audio workstation from Adobe Systems featuring both a multitrack, non-destructive mix/edit environment and a destructive-approach waveform editing view.

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Origins[edit]

Syntrillium Software was founded in the early 1990s by Robert Ellison and David Johnston, both former Microsoft employees. Originally developed by Syntrillium as Cool Edit, the program was distributed as crippleware for Windows computers. The full version was useful and flexible, particularly for its time.^{[according to whom?]} Syntrillium later released Cool Edit Pro, which added the capability to work with multiple tracks, as well as other features. Audio processing, however, was done in a destructive manner (at the time, most computers were not powerful enough in terms of processor performance and memory capacity to perform non-destructive operations in real time). Cool Edit Pro v2 added support for real-time nondestructive processing, and v2.1 added support for surround sound mixing and unlimited simultaneous tracks (up to the limit imposed by the actual computer hardware). Cool Edit also included plugins such as noise reduction and FFTequalization.

Adobe purchased Cool Edit Pro from Syntrillium Software in May 2003 for $16.5 million^[2] as well as a large loop library called 'Loopology'. Adobe then renamed Cool Edit Pro to 'Adobe Audition'.

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Version 1[edit]

Adobe Audition was released on August 18, 2003. It had bug fixes but no new features, and was essentially a more polished Cool Edit Pro 2.1 under a different name. Adobe then released Audition v1.5 in May 2004; major improvements over v1 included pitch correction, frequency space editing, a CD project view, basic video editing and integration with Adobe Premiere, as well as several other enhancements.

Version 2[edit]

Adobe Audition 2 was released on January 17, 2006. With this release, Audition (which the music recording industry had once seen as a value-oriented home studio application, although it has long been used for editing by radio stations) entered the professional Digital Audio Workstation market. The current version included two sections. Multitrack View supported up to 128 digital audio mono or stereo tracks at up to 32-bit resolution. In the track controls section one could select the input and output for each track (the program supported multiple multi-channel sound cards), select 'record', 'solo', and 'mute', and access the effects rack. New features included ASIO (Audio stream input output) support, VST (Virtual Studio Technology) support, new mastering tools (many provided by iZotope), and a redesigned UI. Adobe also included Audition 2.0 as part of its Adobe Production Studio bundle.

Version 3[edit]

Adobe Audition 3 was released on November 8, 2007. New features included VSTi (virtual instrument) support, enhanced spectral editing, a redesigned multi-track interface, new effects, and a collection of royalty-free loops.

CS2 activation servers' shutdown: Adobe Audition 3, with some other CS2 products, was released with an official serial number, due to the technical glitch in Adobe's CS2 activation servers (see Creative Suite 1 & 2).

Version 4 (CS5.5)[edit]

Audition 4, also known as Audition CS5.5, was released on April 11, 2011, as part of Adobe Creative Suite. Audition 4 was shipped as part of the Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Master Collection and Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium, replacing the discontinued Adobe Soundbooth. Audition 4 was also made available as a standalone product. Enhanced integration with Adobe Premiere Pro allowed editing of multitrack Premiere projects, and users of third-party software were served by the introduction of OMF- and XML-based import-export functions. Other new features included improved 5.1 multichannel support, new effects (DeHummer, DeEsser, Speech Volume Leveler, and Surround Reverb), a history panel, faster and fully supported realtime FFT analysis, and a new audio engine (more reliable and faster) for non-ASIO devices.

According to Adobe,^[3] Audition CS5.5 was rewritten from the ground up to take advantage of parallel/batch processing for performance and make it a platform-agnostic product. Audition CS5.5 now works on Windows and Mac platforms. Over 15 years of C++ code was analyzed, and many features of the previous Audition 3 were ported or enhanced. Notable features that were present in Audition 3, but removed for CS5.5, include VSTi support and MIDI sequencing. Unlike all the previous versions, this is the first release to be available as a Mac version as well as a Windows version.

Version 5 (CS6)[edit]

Adobe showed a sneak preview of Audition CS6^[4] in March 2012 highlighting clip grouping and automatic speech alignment (which had its technology previewed^[5] in September 2011).Audition CS6 was released on April 23, 2012, as part of both Creative Suite 6 Master Collection and Creative Suite 6 Production Premium. It included faster and more precise editing, real-time clip stretching, automatic speech alignment, EUCON and Mackie control surface support, parameter automation, more powerful pitch correction, HD video playback, new effects, and more features.

Version 6 (CC)[edit]

Adobe Audition 6, also more commonly known as Audition CC, was released on June 17, 2013. It is the first in the Audition line to be part of the Adobe Creative Cloud. Also, Audition CC is now the first 64-bit^[6] application in the Audition line. This can provide faster processing time when compared to Audition CS6.^{[citation needed]} New features include sound remover, preview editor, and pitch bender.^{[7][not in citation given]}

Version 7 (CC 2014)[edit]

Adobe Audition 7 was released in June 2014 with the name Adobe Audition CC 2014. New with this release came support for Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus formats, custom channel labels, a new UI skin, High DPI support, enhanced clip and track colors and navigation, minimize tracks, tools for splitting all clips at the playhead, and more.

Version 8 (CC 2015)[edit]

Adobe Audition 8 was released in June 2015 with the name Adobe Audition CC 2015. This release offered Dynamic Link video streaming which enabled Audition to display a Premiere Pro project sequence as a video stream at full resolution and frame rate and with all effects, without needing to render to disk. Other features included support for displaying that video content on an external display, scheduled recording, customization of level meter crossover values, automatic session backup, automatic storage of assets alongside session files, import/export of markers, options to relink media, and the addition of Brazilian Portuguese language support. The 8.1 update in the fall of 2015 first unveiled Remix which could analyze a music track and recompose it to a different duration, tools for generating speech based on the OS text-to-speech voice libraries, new options for ITU-based loudness conformation, and the ability to expand and create custom functionality and integration with the Adobe Content Extensibility Platform (CEP) panel support. This update also removed 'Upload to Soundcloud' support as the API had been abandoned by Soundcloud and was no longer functional.

Version 9 (CC 2015.2)[edit]

Adobe Audition 9 was released in June 2016 with the name Adobe Audition CC 2015.2. Of most importance with this release was the new Essential Sound panel, which offered novice audio editors a highly-organized and focused set of tools for mixing audio and would soon be introduced to Premiere Pro allowing non-destructive and lossless transfer of mixing efforts between the two applications. This release also supported exporting directly to Adobe Media Encoder, supporting all available video and audio formats and presets.

Version 10 (CC 2017)[edit]

Adobe Audition 10 was released in November 2016 with the name Adobe Audition CC 2017. A new, flat UI skin and the introduction of the Audition Learn panel, with interactive tutorials, spearheaded this release. This also marked the introduction of the Essential Sound panel^{[contradictory]} and the sharing of all real-time Audition audio effects with Premiere Pro. The 10.1 update in Spring, 2017, offered deep channel separation and manipulation features when working with multichannel audio recordings in Multitrack view, significant improvements to interchange with Premiere Pro sharing all effects and automation non-destructively when transferring a sequence to Audition for mixing, and added spectrum meters to many audio effects. This update also offered the visual keyboard shortcut editor common across other Adobe applications, and offered native support for the Presonus Faderport control surface and mixer.

Version 11 (CC 2018)[edit]

Adobe Audition 11 was released on October 18, 2017 with the name Adobe Audition CC. (The year moniker was dropped from all Creative Cloud applications.) With this release, users were able to easily duck the volume of music behind dialogue and other content types with the new Auto-Ducking feature available in the Essential Sound panel. Multitrack clips were enhanced with fixed z-order, new fade features such as symmetrical fade in/out and fixed duration/curve adjustments. Performance of mixdowns and bounces improved up to 400%. Smart monitoring provides intelligent source monitoring when recording punch-ins and ADR. Video timecode overlay can display source or session timecode without burn-in, a new Dynamics effect with auto-gate, limiting, and expansion simplifies compression for many users, and support for any control surfaces and mixers which use Mackie HUI protocol for communication rounds out the release. Dolby Digital support was removed from this release, though import continues to be supported through most recent operating systems.

Version 12 (CC 2019)[edit]

Adobe Audition 12 was released on October 17, 2018 with the main new features being DeNoise and DeReverb effects. Other new features include: Multitrack Clip improvements, Mulitrack UI improvements, Zoom to time, Add or delete empty tracks, Playback and recording improvements. Third-party effect migration.^[8]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'Audition System requirements'. helpx.adobe.com.
2. ^'United States SEC Form 10-Q, Adobe Systems, Inc., May 30, 2003'(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) on October 30, 2015. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
3. ^'Audition CS 5.5 and the future of Audition - Adobe Community'. forums.adobe.com.
4. ^Adobe. 'Adobe Technology Sneaks 2012 - Adobe Audition CS6 Sneak Peek on Adobe TV'. AdobeTV.
5. ^'Adobe MAX 2019 – The Creativity Conference - November 2–6, 2019'. Adobe MAX 2019.
6. ^Breen, Christopher. 'Review: Adobe Audition CC a solid upgrade hampered by subscription pricing'. Macworld. IDG Consumer & SMB. Retrieved July 22, 2013.
7. ^'Adobe Audition CC Features'. Adobe. Adobe. Retrieved July 22, 2013.
8. ^'Adobe Audition CC 2019 for Mac - MacUpdate'. MacUpdate.com.

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El Adobe Recording Studio

Sonic Ranch, in the border town of Tornillo, Texas, is the world's largest residential recording studio complex.^[1] There are five world-class studios designed by Vincent Van Haaff^[2] on a 1,700-acre (690 ha) pecan orchard^[1] which borders the Rio Grande and Mexico. Located 30 miles (48 km) east of El Paso, Texas, in the border town of Tornillo,^[1] there are five houses on the property where artists stay while recording. The studio was founded in 1989 by the current owner/director Tony Rancich^[1] around a large traditional Spanish hacienda, which is an adobe structure that was built in the late 1930s,^[1] with pine-tree vigas as the ceiling structure. Some rock bands have noted the calm, rural wilderness and easy access to Ciudad Juárez across the border.^[3][4][5][6]

Studio complex[edit]

The Neve Control Room (designed by Vincent Van Haaff) features an 80-channel vintage Neve 8078 Console with 31105 mic pre/EQs.^[7] The left side of this console was the original West Coast Motown board which was used to record many Motown artists,^[1] including Diana Ross, The Temptations, Gladys Knight, Bubba Knight, G. C. Cameron, James Jamerson, Marvin Gaye, and The Jackson 5. Madonna purchased the console^[1] and had it in her studio Brooklyn in Hollywood in the early 1990s, where Yoshiki Hayashi purchased and put it together with another 8078 into its present form by Pat Schnider^[8] and Wess Dolly. Sonic Ranch acquired this console in 2006. The Big Tracking Room that is connected to this control room is 36 by 47 feet (11.0 m × 14.3 m) and has 22-foot-high (6.7 m) ceilings. There are two isolation booths in the Big Tracking Room and two isolation booths in the large 36-by-31-foot (11.0 m × 9.4 m) Control Room.

The A Studio, which was the first studio to be established at Sonic Ranch, is partially subterranean and features a 40-channel E/G SSL console with vintage Neve outboard mic pre/EQs and has four tracking rooms with differing acoustics and dimensions.

The Stone Room is a five-sided room made of travertine stone, with a slanted latia ceiling which optimizes acoustic diffusion.^[9][10] When stripped of baffles and carpets, it serves as an echo chamber during mixdown. The center tracking room, leading to the Drum Room, has carpets and absorbable material between the traditional vigas in the ceiling structure which shortens the decay time in the room and makes it suitable for vocals and electric guitar tracking.

The Drum Room has a wood floor,^[9] a slanted wood ceiling and wooden doors which can be opened or closed to adjust the ambiance of the room. The top room, which descends into the control room, contains a 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) 1978 K. Kawai piano and a 1961 Hammond B3 with Leslie.^[9]

The Adobe Studio was designed by Vincent Van Haaff within a hundred-year-old adobe structure with a vaulted wooden ceiling. It contains a vintage Neve 8088 console with Class A 31102 mic pre/EQs which were designed by Rupert Neve in 1977.^[11] The Adobe Tracking Room is 30 × 28 × 16 feet (9.1 × 8.5 × 4.9 m) and has geometric ceiling panels, corner and half rounds, and massive ceiling trusses to enhance acoustic diffusion. This studio is on a property that contained one of the original 'Custom House' crossing points from Mexico into the United States.

The Mix Room was designed by Vincent Van Haaff^[10] and is in the left wing of the original Spanish hacienda. It is 20 feet (6 m) wide and 40 feet (12 m) deep and contains a 64-channel SSL G/G+ console. It resides next to the swimming pool in the hacienda patio.

The Mastering Room is in the center section of the Spanish hacienda and is 18 ft (5.5 m) wide and 27 ft (8.2 m) deep. It features a Rupert Neve-designed Masterpiece.^[9] The Mastering room has wooden panels and colorful fabrics from Brussels and Paris woven into its acoustical design. This room contains two of the 30 original Salvador Dalí lithographs which, along with artwork by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Marc Chagall, are dispersed throughout the complex in an 'art reflects and inspires art' motif.

Equipment[edit]

Sonic Ranch has a collection of over 55 vintage and modern guitars, 50 vintage and mod amps, 4 modern and 3 vintage drum kits, 54 guitar pedals, 1927 Steinway and 1978 K. Kawai grand pianos, and a 1961 B3 organ with 147 Leslie.^[1][10] The mic collection includes 3 Neumann U47 Long Body Chrome Tops, 2 Neumann M249s, 2 Neumann KM 53s and 54s, 2 Steven Paul Audio Modified Neumann U67s, 2 Neumann M269s which are the European version of U67s, 3 Neumann U87s, 3 Telefunken ELAM 251s, 2 Telefunken ELAM 250s, 2 AKG C12s, and 2 Coles 4038s.^[10]

List of artists recorded[edit]

Following is a list of some of the artists who have recorded songs at Sonic Ranch:^[12]

• Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band^[1]
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs^[1]
• Enrique Bunbury^[1]
• Mudvayne^[1]
• At The Drive-In^[1]
• The London^[1]
• Sleepercar^[1]
• Prong^[9]

List of producers / engineers[edit]

Following is a list of some of the producers and/or engineers who have recorded and/or mixed songs at Sonic Ranch:

• Charles Godfrey
• Mike Major
• Evan Peters
• Ettore Grenci
• Christopher Schoemann
• Marco Ramirez
• Tony Battaglia
• Jeffrey Pringle
• Phil Vinall
• Justin Leeah
• Robert Manning

References[edit]

1. ^ ^{abcdefghijklmno}'The Best Little Music City in Texas'. Vanity Fair. March 26, 2009. Archived from the original on March 28, 2009.
2. ^'Waterland Design LLC'. Waterland.com. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
3. ^'Spring Music Preview'. rollingstone.com. 2009.
4. ^'Hanson to Debut New Songs on Fall Tour'. Billboard.com.
5. ^'Exclusive Yeah Yeah Yeahs talk new album'. SpinMagazine.com.
6. ^'Girl in a Coma Gets Adventurous with Sonic Ranch album','. El Paso Times. 2008.
7. ^'Sonic Ranch recording studios -:-:- FUTURE STYLE -:-:- electronic machines and trend artists MUSIC magazine'. Futurestyle.org. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
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9. ^ ^abcde'Sonic Ranch - una storia texana'(Review on Sound&Lite Italian magazine) (in Italian). Sound&Lite, soundlite.biz. November 2008. pp. 114–117.
10. ^ ^abcd'Sonic Ranch... una storia texana'(Updated review on Sound&Lite Italian magazine) (in Italian). Sound&Lite, soundlite.info. January 2009. pp. 101–102.
11. ^'Sonic Ranch ropes world's first Masterpiece'. Legendaryaudio.com. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
12. ^Cortez, Mia R. (July 2011). 'Behind the scenes at Sonic Ranch'. What's Up Free Entertainment Weekly for El Paso, Juarez, Las Cruces. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24.

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