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Multichannel audio workflow

  1. Audition User Guide
  2. Introduction
    1. What's new in Adobe Audition
    2. Audition system requirements
    3. Finding and customizing shortcuts
    4. Applying effects in the Multitrack Editor
    5. Known issues
  3. Workspace and setup
    1. Control surface support
    2. Viewing, zooming, and navigating audio
    3. Customizing workspaces
    4. Connecting to audio hardware in Audition
    5. Customizing and saving application settings
    6. Perform Mic Check (Beta)
  4. Digital audio fundamentals
    1. Understanding sound
    2. Digitizing audio
  5. Importing, recording, and playing
    1. Multichannel audio workflow
    2. Create, open, or import files in Adobe Audition
    3. Importing with the Files panel
    4. Extracting audio from CDs
    5. Supported import formats
    6. Navigate time and playing audio in Adobe Audition
    7. Recording audio
    8. Monitoring recording and playback levels
    9. Remove silences from your audio recordings
  6. Editing audio files
    1. Edit, repair, and improve audio using Essential Sound panel
    2. Session Markers and Clip Marker for Multitrack
    3. Generating text-to-speech
    4. Matching loudness across multiple audio files
    5. Displaying audio in the Waveform Editor
    6. Selecting audio
    7. How to copy, cut, paste, and delete audio in Audition
    8. Visually fading and changing amplitude
    9. Working with markers
    10. Inverting, reversing, and silencing audio
    11. How to automate common tasks in Audition
    12. Analyze phase, frequency, and amplitude with Audition
    13. Frequency Band Splitter
    14. Undo, redo, and history
    15. Converting sample types
    16. Creating podcasts using Audition
  7. Applying effects
    1. Enabling CEP extensions
    2. Effects controls
    3. Applying effects in the Waveform Editor
    4. Applying effects in the Multitrack Editor
    5. Adding third party plugins
    6. Notch Filter effect
    7. Fade and Gain Envelope effects (Waveform Editor only)
    8. Manual Pitch Correction effect (Waveform Editor only)
    9. Graphic Phase Shifter effect
    10. Doppler Shifter effect (Waveform Editor only)
  8. Effects reference
    1. Apply amplitude and compression effects to audio
    2. Delay and echo effects
    3. Diagnostics effects (Waveform Editor only) for Audition
    4. Filter and equalizer effects
    5. Modulation effects
    6. Reduce noise and restore audio
    7. Reverb effects
    8. How to use special effects with Audition
    9. Stereo imagery effects
    10. Time and pitch manipulation effects
    11. Generate tones and noise
  9. Mixing multitrack sessions
    1. Creating remix
    2. Multitrack Editor overview
    3. Basic multitrack controls
    4. Multitrack routing and EQ controls
    5. Arrange and edit multitrack clips with Audition
    6. Looping clips
    7. How to match, fade, and mix clip volume with Audition
    8. Automating mixes with envelopes
    9. Multitrack clip stretching
  10. Video and surround sound
    1. Working with video applications
    2. Importing video and working with video clips
    3. 5.1 surround sound
  11. Keyboard shortcuts
    1. Finding and customizing shortcuts
    2. Default keyboard shortcuts
  12. Saving and exporting
    1. Save and export audio files
    2. Viewing and editing XMP metadata

Multichannel Audio Workflow

You can use Adobe Audition to easily work with multichannel audio up to 32 channels. In the Waveform Editor, you can individually edit and process specific audio channels. You can also work with multichannel files in the Multitrack Editor as a single clip or with the channels split across multiple clips.

Waveform Editor

If you have multichannel audio or video files, you can edit each audio channel separately in the Waveform Editor by following these steps.

  1. Select File > Open. The opened file appears in the Files Panel.

  2. Expand the drop-down to see each of the channels within the file.

    Channel list
    Channel list

  3. To disable other channels, double-click on an individual channel. 

    Note:

    Channel names from iXML metadata would be shown if available.

    Enable specific channels
    Enable specific channels

    Waveform editor
    Waveform editor

Multitrack Editor

To use multichannel audio or video files within a session, you can bring each of the channels of the file into the Multitrack Editor as one single multichannel clip (default behavior). You can also automatically split each channel or groups of channels into different clips by holding Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac) while dragging.

Importing audio as one multichannel clip
Importing audio as one multichannel clip

Importing audio to Multitrack Editor as different clips
Importing audio to Multitrack Editor as different clips

  • Select and drag the channels you want to import to the Multitrack panel. You can also select multiple channels and drag them to the same track or different tracks.
  • To add channels to different tracks, hold Alt (Windows) or Option (MAC).
Insert clip to different tracks
Insert clip to different tracks

Note:

To channelize the clip according to the channelization of the destination track, use the double-modifier behavior using Command+Option (MAC) and Control+Alt (Windows).

Modify the channels in a specific clip

To modify the channels you have added to specific clip, follow these steps.

Note:

You cannot modify the number of channels in a clip you have added to a track. You can, however, replace one channel with another.

  1. Select the clip you want to edit.

  2. In the Properties panel, select Source Channel Routing.

  3. Use radio buttons to modify the source channel routing of the selected clip

    Specific Channel Routing
    Specific Channel Routing

Effects channelization

While working with effects, you can assign different in/out channels, and query for the different channel configurations they support. Easily route specific audio clip or track channels to mono, stereo, or surround/immersive effects, and quickly see at-a-glance existing routing configurations. 

  1. To modify effect layout, open an effect from the Effects Rack or Effects menu.  The Effects window opens. Now, select the Channel map editor.

    Channel map editor

  2. Choose Request Layout. The Request Effect Layout window opens.

    Request layout

  3. The new Request Effect layout window allows you to choose the input type. Choose from Mono, Stereo, and 5.1 from the drop-down. 

    Choose input from drop-drown

    Note:

    The output is always follows the input and cannot be changed.

  4. For custom channel configurations, choose Custom and assign or edit Channel Label

    Custom audio channel layout

  5. Use the plus and minus icons shown below to add and remove channels.

    Add or remove channels

  6. You can now modify the effect input and effect output for all individual channels.

    Modify effect input and effect output

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