Bobbsy
Boring Old Git
Adobe have just posted in their user forums that Creative Suite 6 (including the new version of Audition) will be formally announced at NAB next week. They've also posted this list of highlights and features:
Audition CS6 Highlights:
Real-time and rendered clip stretching in multi-track - including new “varispeed” mode
Clip Grouping – Including suspend, trimming, & stretching of groups
VST3 support (Mac and Win) and more effects
New pitch correction/manipulation tools
Automatic speech alignment tool
Red Book Audio CD burning
Hardware controllers support - Including native Avid EUCON and Mackie MCU support
Write/Touch/Latch automation modes
Media browser with file preview
Session Templates and Enhancements
Expanded file format support (Native, libsndfile, DLMS)
Audition CS6 Complete List of New Features:
Multitrack
Session templates
Automatic speech alignment
Clip grouping
Suspend mode
Focus clip actions
Trim/fade grouped clips
Time aligned stretching of groups
Clip spotting – Manual entry of clip start or end time
Clip stretching - Real-time and rendered mode using iZotope Radius
Vari-speed clip stretching
Skip selection play mode
Save all open files with session preference
Select all clips from playhead to end of track
Sum to mono per track
Bounce selected track
Reveal clip in files panel
Trim to selection
Send clip to back
Preference to play/hide overlapped clips
Mixer enhancements
Snap volume and pan envelopes at 0dB
Drag and drop file marker range to multitrack (as clip)
Waveform (Editor)
Multiple clipboards
Skip selection play mode
Open append
Subclip marker support (Premiere and Prelude)
Improvements to spectral spot Healing
Pitch display
Effects
VST3
Side Chain support
Improved plug-in scanning engine
New channel map per effect – Control over effect input and output channel routing
Save and apply Effect Racks as a favorite
New/Added effects:
Automatic Pitch Correction
Manual Pitch Correction with new spectral pitch view mode
Generate Tones
Doppler Shifter
Notch Filter
Graphic Phase Shifter
Gain / Fade Envelopes
General
Media Browser
Preview in Media Browser and files panel
Search/filter in Media Browser and files panel
Display markers for all files in markers panel
Access and open order fields in files panel (sorting)
Keyboard shortcuts (shortcut editor enhancements, copy to clipboard)
Adobe Graphics Manager Implementation to improve UI drawing
DLMS Integration to support additional video and audio file format import/open
OpenGL display for video including improved video display for improved performance
New spectral display preferences
Support for additional framerates (23.976, 59.94 ndf/df)
Machine-specific device preferences (optional common audio hardware settings for all users)
Import most preferences from CS5.5
Pinch-to-zoom, rotate to scrub Mac touchpad support (Mac only)
Improved properties panel UI layout
Broadcast Specific
ITU Loudness – Normalize files (batch) to ITU-BS.1770-2 (R128), view loudness level diagnostics
Native MPEG1-Layer 2 audio (MP2) import and export
Enhanced CART timer and metadata support
Control Surface/Automation
Mackie MCU, native Avid EUCON, other controller support
Recordable track automation (Full Write, Touch, Latch support with undo)
Format support
MPEG4, HD Video, and additional audio import (via DLMS)
Native MPEG1-Layer2 (MP2) audio import and export
Native APE, FLAC, OGG export and import
libsndfile export – export most formats supported by libsndfile
CD Import metadata support (via FreeDB)
Enhanced RAW format support
Output
Red Book CD Burning (via CD layout)
Quick burn single-file, CD-TEXT)
Advanced mixdown – Mixdown tracks, busses and/or master as seperate files
Save All Audio As batch process
Save Copies of Associated Files – Collect/archive all files in a session
Save open file references in session (“remember” all open files with the session)
Advanced session export – Including ability to convert sample rate of session and associated files
Preferred asset importer saved with session files
....a quick read through suggests that pretty well all the things that caused me to stick with AA3.01 have been restored and there are some new features that have me drooling. I assume that they'll be giving the supply details at the NAB announcement next week. I'll certainly be trying this out as soon as I possibly can!
Audition CS6 Highlights:
Real-time and rendered clip stretching in multi-track - including new “varispeed” mode
Clip Grouping – Including suspend, trimming, & stretching of groups
VST3 support (Mac and Win) and more effects
New pitch correction/manipulation tools
Automatic speech alignment tool
Red Book Audio CD burning
Hardware controllers support - Including native Avid EUCON and Mackie MCU support
Write/Touch/Latch automation modes
Media browser with file preview
Session Templates and Enhancements
Expanded file format support (Native, libsndfile, DLMS)
Audition CS6 Complete List of New Features:
Multitrack
Session templates
Automatic speech alignment
Clip grouping
Suspend mode
Focus clip actions
Trim/fade grouped clips
Time aligned stretching of groups
Clip spotting – Manual entry of clip start or end time
Clip stretching - Real-time and rendered mode using iZotope Radius
Vari-speed clip stretching
Skip selection play mode
Save all open files with session preference
Select all clips from playhead to end of track
Sum to mono per track
Bounce selected track
Reveal clip in files panel
Trim to selection
Send clip to back
Preference to play/hide overlapped clips
Mixer enhancements
Snap volume and pan envelopes at 0dB
Drag and drop file marker range to multitrack (as clip)
Waveform (Editor)
Multiple clipboards
Skip selection play mode
Open append
Subclip marker support (Premiere and Prelude)
Improvements to spectral spot Healing
Pitch display
Effects
VST3
Side Chain support
Improved plug-in scanning engine
New channel map per effect – Control over effect input and output channel routing
Save and apply Effect Racks as a favorite
New/Added effects:
Automatic Pitch Correction
Manual Pitch Correction with new spectral pitch view mode
Generate Tones
Doppler Shifter
Notch Filter
Graphic Phase Shifter
Gain / Fade Envelopes
General
Media Browser
Preview in Media Browser and files panel
Search/filter in Media Browser and files panel
Display markers for all files in markers panel
Access and open order fields in files panel (sorting)
Keyboard shortcuts (shortcut editor enhancements, copy to clipboard)
Adobe Graphics Manager Implementation to improve UI drawing
DLMS Integration to support additional video and audio file format import/open
OpenGL display for video including improved video display for improved performance
New spectral display preferences
Support for additional framerates (23.976, 59.94 ndf/df)
Machine-specific device preferences (optional common audio hardware settings for all users)
Import most preferences from CS5.5
Pinch-to-zoom, rotate to scrub Mac touchpad support (Mac only)
Improved properties panel UI layout
Broadcast Specific
ITU Loudness – Normalize files (batch) to ITU-BS.1770-2 (R128), view loudness level diagnostics
Native MPEG1-Layer 2 audio (MP2) import and export
Enhanced CART timer and metadata support
Control Surface/Automation
Mackie MCU, native Avid EUCON, other controller support
Recordable track automation (Full Write, Touch, Latch support with undo)
Format support
MPEG4, HD Video, and additional audio import (via DLMS)
Native MPEG1-Layer2 (MP2) audio import and export
Native APE, FLAC, OGG export and import
libsndfile export – export most formats supported by libsndfile
CD Import metadata support (via FreeDB)
Enhanced RAW format support
Output
Red Book CD Burning (via CD layout)
Quick burn single-file, CD-TEXT)
Advanced mixdown – Mixdown tracks, busses and/or master as seperate files
Save All Audio As batch process
Save Copies of Associated Files – Collect/archive all files in a session
Save open file references in session (“remember” all open files with the session)
Advanced session export – Including ability to convert sample rate of session and associated files
Preferred asset importer saved with session files
....a quick read through suggests that pretty well all the things that caused me to stick with AA3.01 have been restored and there are some new features that have me drooling. I assume that they'll be giving the supply details at the NAB announcement next week. I'll certainly be trying this out as soon as I possibly can!