At 9:31 AM -0500 9/15/06, Bruce wrote:
>Hi Marty,
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>I have been using Audition 1.5 for over a year, and it is almost identical
>to Cool Edit Pro. Audition 2.0 doesn't seem to offer much more in the way =
of
>useful features. I didn't know 2.0 had some issues like others have been
>saying. Good thing I didn't upgrade. Audition 1.5 does multichannel mixing=
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>It doesn't have the greatest multichannel mixer, but it works. I am
>currently working on a surround sound project. I wish Audition had more
>output file options for the multichannel mixer, like some bigger buck mixi=
ng
>programs (Maven 3D looks cool). I had to buy another program for additiona=
l
>file conversions. Audition basically only allows for 6-mono channel output
>files for multichannel 5.1 surround.
This is pretty standard, right? Its in how you get the six files
that's tricky! :-) They've traded flexibility for ease. To get
sufficient speaker routing for example, we had to make a very
anti-intuitive mixer patch. Its funny, but the 5.1 default is "stereo
centric."
> Depending on what multichannel project
>they are working on, they may need other software to encode the files into
>Dolby Digital, DTS, or what ever format.
There a video production pro package for ~$250USD for students that
includes Encore-- all the stuff needed.
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>Bruce Rutkoski
>www.natureguystudio.com
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>Audition 2.0?
>Posted by: "Marty Michener" enjoybirds
>Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:20 am (PST)
>In the last week two friends have asked me about Audition 2.0, and have
>read bad reviews of it, as compared with the previous edition and to Cool
>Edit Pro, its forerunner. What is the consensus of this group? Is it worth
>$350 or should I tell them to procure a copy of 1.5 for $100?
>One wants to use it for multi-channel music mixing, the other for bird
>songs.
>(I still use Cool Edit Pro).
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>-- best regards, Marty Michener
>MIST Software Assoc. Inc., P. O. Box 269, Hollis, NH 03049
>http://www.enjoybirds.com/
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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Rob Danielson
Peck School of the Arts
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
http://www.uwm.edu/~type/audio-art-tech-gallery/
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