jjx wrote:

 

the host app already has the hardware settings and Au plays too loud.

 

I had to add an effect to the rack just to trim volume then set it back before returning to host app (hassle)

 

soundforge and others have hardware slider featues -- add it!!!

Audition isn't playing too loudly - your sound device settings are wrong, and Audition has no control over these. If you want the volume lower, then leave the Windows volume control, or whatever you are using, on the screen and use that. If you use effects to reduce the level of files, then you have created a non-standard file - and that's no approach to anything.

Audition couldn't possibly put a hardware control slider in the app, simply because the majority of users use professional sound devices which have their own control panels, with their own individual control characeristics - and they are all controlled in a different way.

Do your powered monitor speakers not have a volume control?  I'd just use that if there is one.

In my case, I have a couple of options for controlling monitor level:  my monitors are passive so I have an external amp with a volume control.

However, even before that, depending which interface I'm using, I either have a monitor level knob on my simple two track interface or a monitor level control on my mixer when I'm using my multichannel interface via a digital mixer.

If you're using the in-built sound card on a lap top or something (you really shouldn't be--their quality is total rubbish) I guess you don't have that option but sure there some control on your speakers or the amp for them?

As Steve and I were trying to say, if it's an omission, it's a deliberate one because the only way Audition could do this is by changing the actual levels of your mix--and that would be a VERY dangerous idea for monitoring;

Not being funny but how about setting the slider in vegas (or whatever) to maximum and adjusting your monitors to a comfortable listening level.

Problem solved--and probably the way any professional software/hardware is designed to work.