Adobe Audition Sucks

A lot of DAWS suck and Adobe Audition is one of them.

 

 

1.0 out of 5 stars DO NOT BUY - CAN NO LONGER BE ACTIVATED!, January 6, 2013

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This review is from: Adobe Audition v.3.0 - Complete Product - 1 User - Retail - PC (DVD-ROM)

Adobe have turned off the activation server for this program and it can no longer be installed. Adobe now offers a free download of it with no copy protection. So you'd be crazy to purchase it.

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1.0 out of 5 stars i threw away $300, October 18, 2010

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This review is from: Adobe Audition v.3.0 - Complete Product - 1 User - Retail - PC (DVD-ROM)

i've used cooledit pro for over a decade and i've been extremely happy with it. i finally started having problems with it occasionally recording over my tracks before the area i designated to punch in, and i decided to purchase some newer software. i researched adobe audition 3 and it looked like people were mostly happy with it. i spent over $300 to buy a copy, which arrived today. i bought it from a seller on amazon, but i didn't buy it from amazon directly, so i fear i might not be able to return it. if so, i threw away over $300 as i will not ever use this. it is incredibly slow compared to cooledit. adobe has apparently removed a lot of the options that were available in cooledit, like the ability to punch in to a track you've recorded. now it saves everything you record whether you want it saved or not; there is no longer an option to "destroy wave". it has already crashed on me, which cooledit did very rarely. customer service is completely useless; the person i talked to barely spoke english and wasn't of any help whatsoever. if anyone will give me $200 for this software, please let me know; i'll gladly take the loss and move on. i will never buy an adobe product again.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Vista users Beware, December 5, 2009

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This review is from: Adobe Audition v.3.0 - Complete Product - 1 User - Retail - PC (DVD-ROM)

I wish I had come to Amazon.com first. Could have saved myself a lot of time and money, not to mention tons of frustration. After an AA 3.0.1 Patch, a vague web reference to opening as an Admin [ right click on shortcut icon, 3rd from the top]. Installing then unistalling ASIO because the program kept saying 'no audio device found'. It still did not work.

After calling it quits for the day and praying and sleeping on it . . . I awoke this morning cursing Adobe, but I had purchased the program from EBay and returning it was not an option.

I went back into AA and the edit hardware and poked around again. Finally realized that the default was Output and I needed Input.
 

For what I want to do, I'll bet that Audacity would have worked fine.
The one star is for installation. I have no idea how good the program is. I am just thankful that it is working at all and that I do not have a 300 dollar bookend.

And like my son, once this computer breaks I am buying a Mac. I have had it with MS changing platforms so often and software companies unable or unwilling to keep-up.

And Adobe - shame on you - this program has been out long enough for you to have fixed the bugs and put a more comprehensive work around on your site.
Thank gawd for Google search and the people who post their solutions.Adobe Audition 3

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1.0 out of 5 stars Sucks, September 23, 2009

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The_Dude "The_Dude" (Ca) -

This review is from: Adobe Audition v.3.0 - Complete Product - 1 User - Retail - PC (DVD-ROM)

I have been doing commercial radio production for years using CE Pro
and Audition 1.5. Our company just recently purchased vista workstations
and new additions of Adobe Audition 3.0 for us to produce and edit
radio spots.... And i got to say compared to the speed and efficiency
of 1.5 Audition 3.0 totally SUCKS.. It takes about 7 extra steps to do
anything. I'm sure its great for music recording but when your trying to
rip and read spots all day 3.0 is a big fat dead cow. Most of us now just
bring our own laptops in and use 1.5 or Audacity. My average production time
for basic spots was about 5 spots an hour now with 3.0 I'm lucky to
get 1 or 2 spots an hour. When you have quick turn around times and need
to get stuff on the air Audition 3.0 just doesn't cut it. If you have a
lot of time on your hands and a lot of HDD space maybe 3.0 is for you but in
my opinion its by far the worse piece of software Adobe has produced.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't even start up, October 22, 2008

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This review is from: Adobe Audition v.3.0 - Complete Product - 1 User - Retail - PC (DVD-ROM)

Adobe Audition was a great program before it was owned by Adobe, when it was called Cooledit. If it works, it has a great and useful set of features. Helas, depending on how your computer is configured, you won't be able to even launch Adobe Audition 3: It will just crash. This problem is known to Adobe for several years, but they didn't bother to correct this bug, or even to answer your emails if you write to them. You can find work-arounds on the Adobe Audition Forums, but don't expect this program to work out of the box. Also, in addition to many other bugs, note that Adobe installs a spyware service (Adobe LM Service) that you can't disable.

Unless you look for a specific feature that only Adobe Audition has, I would recommend that you try to get hold of an old version of CoolEdit, or to try out Audacity, which is free, works, and has no spyware.

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A Problem With DAWs

There are a lot of problems with DAWs. Many are unstable, most are difficult to learn and counter intuitive and they are digital so you can kiss that naturally warm sound of tubes and tape goodbye.  The problem I speak of is there is no standardization. They are all laid out differently and contain different nomenclature. I suspect this is to purposely make the learning curve hard so that users will stick with the DAW they know even if it has some serious short comings. You stick with what you know especially if you are a pro.

Creative people like artists and musicians are right brained whereas geeks are left brained and unfortunately it's geeks who design most software. Adobe PhotoShop's design was probably a combination of left and right brained people because it works well and is fairly intuitive.

DAWs force creative compromises. Let's say that you want to make meter changes in a song. For any geeks reading the meter changes mean going from one time signature to another like in the Beatles song We Can Work it Out where it goes from 4/4 to 6/8 and back 4/4. Slowing tempo and speeding it up again is not even possible with some DAWS. This is why at this point the best use of a DAW is for mastering but KISS Keep It Simple Stupid and mix with your ear but if you are a geek that's impossible. 

I've heard music created by geeks and it's sterile and hardly clever. Today's music, well most of today's music is sterile and that is why the shit the Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber is popular but you many Justin Bieber or Taylor Swift songs can you sing or even want to sing?

A DAW in the hands of a geek is a very ugly thing. A DAW in the hand of a right brained person endowed with creativity and commonsense is frustration and and toxic to the creative process.

Geeks just don't get it and they will never get it and that's why DAWS tend to suck and as a consequence so does today's music.

Because this blog is called Mixcraft Sucks I will mention Mixcraft. The biggest disappoint about Mixcraft is that it is intuitive and them power it lacks would not be a bad thing if it were stable. Mixcraft is like a 90 horsepower sports car. You know that a Corvette will blow its doors off but you don't care because it is still fun to drive and may potentially even beat the Corvette on a very tight road course. But your 90 horsepower sports car uses more gas than the Corvette and is extremely unreliable. That's Mixcraft. Put the power and reliability of the Corvette into your underpowered and unreliable British sports car and you will have a real winner. Put the reliability of Reaper into Mixcraft and put the ease of use of Mixcraft into Reaper and you will have a DAW even the most analog oriented musician can live with. BTW, Corvettes are easy to operate, fun to drive and very reliable.

Neither a fixed Mixcraft or an intuitive Reaper will ever be the Cadillac of  DAWs but they can become the DAW of choice for most PC users and don't let the assholes from Acoustica tell you that the reason Mixcraft crashes, freezes and has horrible latency issues is because of a problem with your PC. Install Reaper and you won't have latency issues or crashes. Reaper has a horrible work flow and it's user hostile but it is very stable.






Currently I am testing Adobe Audition and so far it sucks as a recoding platform.

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