Adobe Audition CS6 Classroom In A Book
Adobe Audition CS6classroom in a book The official training workbook from Adobe Systems
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ContentsGetting Started1About Classroom in a Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2What’s in this book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Installing Adobe Audition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Starting Adobe Audition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Copying the Classroom in a Book files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Additional resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Audition and social media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Checking for updates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Adobe certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Audio Interfacing8Audio interface basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Mac OS X audio setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Windows setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Testing inputs and outputs with Audition(Mac or Windows). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Using external interfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212The Audition Environment24Audition’s dual personality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26The Audition Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34ivContents
3Basic Editing44Opening a file for editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Selecting a region for editing and changing its level . . . . . . . . . 46Cutting, deleting, and pasting audio regions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Cutting and pasting with multiple clipboards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50Extending and shortening musical selections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Simultaneous mixing and pasting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53Repeating part of a waveform to create a loop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Fading regions to reduce artifacts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554Signal Processing58Effects basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Using the Effects Rack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Amplitude and Compression effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Delay and echo effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76Filter and EQ effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78Modulation effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82Noise reduction/restoration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86Reverb effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86Special effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90Stereo imagery effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96Time and Pitch effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97Third-party effects (VST and AU). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99Using the Effects menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101Managing presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1065Audio Restoration108About audio restoration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110Reducing hiss. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110Reducing clicks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112Reducing noise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114Removing artifacts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115Alternate click removal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117Creative removal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Adobe Audition CS6 Classroom in a Bookv
6Mastering 122Mastering basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124Step 1: equalization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124Step 2: dynamics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126Step 3: ambience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Step 4: stereo imaging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Step 5: “push” the drum hits; then apply the changes. . . . . . . 1287Sound Design130About sound design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132Creating rain sounds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132Creating a babbling brook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134Creating insects at night. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134Creating an alien choir. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135Creating sci-fi machine effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136Creating an alien drone flyby. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1388Creating and Recording Files142Recording into the Waveform Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144Recording into the Multitrack Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147Drag and drop into an Audition Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149Importing a track from an audio CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151Saving a template. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1529Multitrack Editor Orientation154About multitrack production. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156Multitrack and Waveform Editor integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156Looped playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158Track controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158Channel mapping in the Multitrack Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167Side-chaining effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16910 The Multitrack Mixer View172Mixer view basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174viContents
11 Editing Clips182Creating a DJ-style continuous music mix withcrossfading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184Mixing or exporting a collection of clips as a single file. . . . . 186Editing for length. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187Clip edits: split, trim, volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191Extending a clip via looping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19412 Creating Music with Sound Libraries196About sound libraries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198Getting started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198Building a rhythm track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200Adding percussion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202Adding melodic elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203Using loops with different pitch and tempo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204Adding processing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20513 Recording in the Multitrack Editor208Getting ready to record a track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210Setting up the metronome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211Recording a part in a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212Recording an additional part (overdub). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213“Punching in” over a mistake. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213Composite recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21514 Automation218About automation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220Clip automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220Track automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22515 Mixing234About mixing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236Testing your acoustics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236The mixing process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239Exporting a stereo mix of the song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255Burning an audio CD of the song. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256Adobe Audition CS6 Classroom in a Bookvii
16 Scoring Audio to Video258Importing a video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260Using markers to create hit points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260Building the soundtrack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263Adding hits to the marker location points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264Automatic Speech Alignment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267Audition integration with Adobe Premiere Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . 269Appendix: Panel Reference271Amplitude Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271Batch Process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273Effects Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274Frequency Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276Match Volume. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276Media Browser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277Metadata. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277Mixer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278Phase Meter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278Playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279Selection/View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280Track Panner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282Index283SEE LAST PAGE OF THIS EBOOK for instructions on downloading your lesson filesviiiContents
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