Adobe Audition CC Classroom in a Book

✍ Scribed by Adobe Creative Team, Maxim Jago

• Publisher: Adobe Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 382
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Audition CC

Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on so ware training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does–an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

Adobe Audition CC Classroom in a Book contains 17 lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.

Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the book’s “Getting Started” section to unlock access to:

• Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book

• Web Edition containing the complete text of the book, interactive quizzes, videos that walk you through the lessons step by step, and updated material covering new feature releases from Adobe

What you need to use this book: Adobe Audition CC software, for either Windows or macOS. (Software not included.)

Note: Classroom in a Book does not replace the documentation, support, updates, or any other benefits of being a registered owner of Adobe Audition CC software.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
WHERE ARE THE LESSON FILES?
CONTENTS
GETTING STARTED
About Classroom in a Book
What’s in this book
Prerequisites
Installing Adobe Audition
Online content
Lesson files
Web Edition
Accessing the Lesson Files and Web Edition
Restoring default preferences
Additional resources
Adobe Authorized Training Centers
1 SET UP ADOBE AUDITION CC
Audio interface basics
macOS audio setup
Windows audio setup
Testing inputs
Using external interfaces
Keyboard shortcuts
2 THE AUDITION INTERFACE
Two applications in one
Audition workspaces
Explore the interface
3 WAVEFORM EDITING
Open a file
Video files
Select regions
Cut, Copy, and Paste
Use multiple clipboards
Mix paste
Create a loop
Showing waveform data under the cursor
Add fades
4 EFFECTS
Effects basics
Using the Effects Rack
Effect categories
Amplitude and Compression effects
Delay and echo effects
Filter and EQ effects
Modulation effects
Noise reduction/restoration
Reverb effects
Special effects
Stereo imagery effects
Time and Pitch effects
Third-party effects (VST and AU)
Using the Effects menu
Presets and favorites
5 AUDIO RESTORATION
About audio restoration
Reducing hiss
Reducing crackles
Reducing pops and clicks
Reducing broadband noise
De-humming a file
Removing artifacts
Manual sound removal
The Spot Healing brush
Automated sound removal
6 MASTERING
Mastering basics
Equalization
Dynamics
Ambience
Stereo imaging
Push the drum hits; then apply the changes
Mastering diagnostics
7 SOUND DESIGN
About sound design
Generate noise, speech, and tones
Creating rain sounds
Creating a babbling brook
Creating insects at night
Creating an alien choir
Creating sci-fi machine effects
Creating an alien drone flyby
Extracting frequency bands
8 CREATING AND RECORDING FILES
Recording into the Waveform Editor
Recording into the Multitrack Editor
Checking remaining free space
Dragging into an Audition editor
Importing tracks as individual files from an audio CD
9 MULTITRACK SESSIONS
About multitrack production
Create a multitrack session
Multitrack session templates
Multitrack and Waveform Editor integration
Changing track colors
The Tracks panel
Loop selections for playback
Track controls
Channel mapping in the Multitrack Editor
The Multitrack Editor Effects Rack
10 MULTITRACK SESSION EDITING
Create a mixtape
Mixing or exporting a collection of clips as a single file
Merge clips into a single file
Editing clip length
Clip edits: Split, Trim, Volume
Extend a clip via looping
Remix
11 AUTOMATION
About automation
Clip automation
Track automation
12 VIDEO SOUNDTRACKS
Multitrack session video
Audition integration with Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Automatic Speech Alignment
13 THE ESSENTIAL SOUND PANEL
Automating tasks
Assigning audio types
Essential Sound panel presets
14 THE MULTITRACK MIXER
Audio Mixer basics
15 CREATING MUSIC WITH SOUND LIBRARIES
About sound libraries
Download Adobe sound effects
Preparing
Building a rhythm track
Adding more percussion
Adding melodic elements
Using loops with different pitch and tempo
Adding effects
16 RECORDING AND OUTPUT IN THE MULTITRACK EDITOR
Getting ready to record a track
Setting up the metronome
File management
Recording a part in a track
Recording an additional part (overdub)
Punching over a mistake
Composite recording
Exporting a stereo mix of the song
Exporting with Adobe Media Encoder
17 MIXING
INDEX