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Adobe Audition Coming to Mac OS X?

Friday June 4, 2010 1:19 pm PDT by Eric Slivka

A newly-posted YouTube video appears to show a Mac OS X version of Adobe Audition, the company's all-in-one application package dedicated to professional audio production, in action. Audition began life as Cool Edit Pro, but was acquired by Adobe in 2003, which rebranded it as Audition and continued development on the project.

Adobe Audition 3, the most recent version, was released in November 2007 and is available only on Windows. The tool-based Audition is considered to be a step up from Adobe's task-based Soundbooth CS5 targeting video professionals without a background in professional audio production. Soundbooth CS5 is already available for Mac either as a standalone purchase or as part of the Creative Suite 5 Production Premium or Master Collection.

Compared to the $199 price point of the standalone Soundbooth CS5, Adobe Audition 3 is priced at $349 for the full version and $99 for upgrades. Audition also competes with Apple's Logic platform in a number of areas, although the two applications obviously currently operate exclusively on different platforms.
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badhorsie777
26 months ago
...or is it just Parallels or VMWare's window-less thing, that makes windows apps look integrated into the OSX landscape?

edit: just watched it... the menus look legit - spotlight and all... hmmm
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iWonderwhy
26 months ago
Great, hopefully it's coming to Mac, already using it on my PC, but to have it on a Mac would be even better.
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kevinkt
26 months ago
Just use garage band
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myca
26 months ago
About time, the mac has been devoid of a good wave editor for an eternity, now if only Sony would release Sound Forge too, with a choice of those two I could nearly be completely shut of windows in my workflow.
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badhorsie777
26 months ago

About time, the mac has been devoid of a good wave editor for an eternity, now if only Sony would release Sound Forge too, with a choice of those two I could nearly be completely shut of windows in my workflow.


I'm finally digging into soundtrack, from logic studio, right now and it's pretty powerful for my needs. I cut my teeth using soundforge... miss that thing!
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IntelliUser
26 months ago
VmWare Fusion Unity Mode FAIL!

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FAKE!
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Xavier
26 months ago
I'll stick with Pro Tools thanks. (Or Logic)
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Man-Droid
26 months ago

Just use garage band

Garage Band is not the equivalent to Audition, Logic Audio is. There is a massive difference.
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Collected
26 months ago
The text:

"I found this video attached on a user forum and I had to put it on YouTube. Could Adobe be secretly working on Audition for the Mac? What do you think, is it real?"

Makes me think it's a fake. Just seems far to convenient.. found on a unnamed forum and asking "is it real?". User only has one video too. I wouldn't trust it personally.
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ThunderSkunk
26 months ago
Sweeet!!!

Now I'll finally be able to open and revisit all our bands old cooledit projects!

We always knew we could rebuild them all in Logic, but my god, thousands of hours of work already spent, to duplicate again... no way.

Cooledit was quick and easy and clean.
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