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  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

Extract CD tracks with the Extract Audio From CD command

The Extract Audio From CD command is faster and provides more control, including the ability to optimize drive speed and rename tracks.

  1. Place an audio CD in the computer’s CD‑ROM drive.
  2. Choose File > Extract Audio From CD.
  3. For Drive, choose the drive that contains the audio CD.
  4. For Speed, choose from all the extraction speeds that the selected drive supports. The Maximum Speed option usually produces satisfactory results, but if it produces errors, specify a slower speed.
  5. Do any of the following:
    • To preview a track, click its Play button.
    • To include or exclude tracks, click the checkboxes to the left of track numbers, or click Toggle All.
    • To rename a track, double-click it.

  6. Audition CC only: Enable Extract to Single File to create a single file that contains all selected tracks.

Configure track information and CD databases  

In the center of the Extract Audio From CD dialog box, Artist, Album, Genre, and Year information is drawn from the specified CD database by default. To adjust these entries, do any of the following:

  • To customize information, overwrite current entries.
  • To insert original information from the database, click the Retrieve Titles icon .
  • If a message indicates multiple matching records, click the arrows to insert different database records.
  • To specify a different database and file naming convention, click the Title Settings icon . For details about each Title Settings option, position the mouse over it until a tool tip appears.

Note: If multiple Artist entries are detected, Audition automatically selects the Compilation option. In the Title Settings dialog box, enter a Separator For Compilations character to separate Artist and Track Title for each track.

Extract CD tracks with the Open command (Mac OS)

Note:

This extraction method can greatly degrade Audition performance. The Extract Audio From CD command is usually a better choice.

The Open command lets you extract tracks in AIFF format but requires Audition to continue reading audio data from CD, slowing importing and editing.

  1. Place an audio CD in the computer’s CD‑ROM drive.
  2. Choose File > Open.
  3. Choose QuickTime as the file type, and navigate to the CD‑ROM drive.
  4. Select the tracks you want to extract, and click Open.

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