I know about your opposition to the MIDI idea (I respect it, even though I don't share it), but I'm curious about why you'd say 'maybe' to Rewire.

As I posted over at Audio Masters, this looks great -- and thx so much for advising it will still run on XP,

since we run AA on multiple systems and all are currently XP SP3.  Do keep us posted as to when

we can get it and cost for the upgrade from CS5.5 - will def. do that

The template feature also seems it will get a lot of use at our studios.  For a long time, we have done sort of the

same thing via several workarounds to make various often-used templates (sort-of-templates at least)

with default assignments, busses and  sometimes plugs loaded  (UA, Izotope, Waves, "AA native" and others)

and set to often used starting settings.  We also use many diff workspace templates all the time for

various tasks.

Recall and repeatability are big things  for a lot  of what we do. It's very often essential with many

projects to be able to go back - even years later -- and get everything back exactly

as it was to then add or re-version something to/from those sessions/projects.

Sometimes clients want to add new material or make changes even inside bits of existing stuff.

And thx for putting back stems exporting (sep files) - a key feature for us - also for Colin's explanation (at Audio

Masters) of enhancements to it -- ditto grouping and several others we really missed in 5.5.

One other  thought for possible inclusion later.:

A split and append feature for SESX files, so that you can split a long m/track project into two

(or more) sub-projects (as sometimes dense projects grow even denser as they progress!)

You would designate a split point on the timeline and  AA would ask you to provide a new name for

each resulting "sub project".

Everything to left of split point becomes new project 1 and everything to right new project 2, and

perhaps the command provides default names which user can override and enter their own pref.

And then an append feature would simply let you append another SESX project to an existing

one at the end of the existing SESX, or perhaps again at a point on the timeline you select, and

in that case it would insert the other project you specify into the project you are appending it to.

With some of the more recent projects we've been doing using only CS5.5 being more than

4 hours long, this feature would come in quite handy.

A very old hardware/software system we still sometimes use for making CD masters provides that feature and

we've often made good use if it.

Hoping too that maybe we'll be again able to use the Frontier Alphatrack with the new version,

though maybe that will  need some work by the Frontier Design Group folks first.

I don't think Alphatrack is fully Mackie protocol compliant, but I'm not sure. It does work pretty well

with AA3- though some features are not implemented.  (their AA2 files on their website for

Alphatrack work with AA3)  www.frontierdesign.com

Frontier's answer on unimplemented stuff was always that because Audition did not expose those

parameters to ext control,  they couldn't implement them at their end -- but since

the architecture changed greatly when AA moved to CS5.5 perhaps that's no longer the

case. 

Maybe the Adobe folks could dialog with the Frontier people on that to see what they need?

Anyhow, bravo on this and will look fwd to being able to use the new stuff when it becomes

available -- and to having the old stuff back too.

nahravka wrote:

 

Is there 64-bit version ?

Is it possible to hide TABS (to make my small monitor BIGGER) ?

 

No 64-bit version this time. No you can't hide tabs either - that would be pointless! A new monitor will cost you less than Audition will these days...

Thanks, Colin and Durin, for double-checking. Looking forward to your reports.

And thanks, Steve! The open-append approach you describe sounds like a good work-around. But this must be done manually, right? i.e. I cannot open-append via drag-drop of files onto files already open in Audition, or can I? Regarding

"I don't think that waveform vertical zoom has ever done what you want it to":

You're probably right. So, Durin, Charles, et al: how about adding synchronized vertical waveform zoom to the feature list? (if it's not on the list already, of course.) I know that Audition 2.x (and 3.x IIRC) sync'ed the vertical (frequency) zoom in spectral view, and I hope this feature is re-established in CS6 (is that what you're indicating, Steve?) Because otherwise I have to manually zoom in on each file in the same way (or have to manually open-append, as suggested), which is precisely where I lose time.

Chris

Thanks for your answers, Durin and Charles.

I hope you'll update it soon to read/write WMAs like version 3.

It is welcome news that the developers have worked to clean up the VST sorting.  I have plug-ins that would not work in CS5.5 because of their perceived channel count but worked in all other versions of Audition.