- Audition User Guide
- Introduction
- Workspace and setup
- Digital audio fundamentals
- Importing, recording, and playing
- Multichannel audio workflow
- Create, open, or import files in Adobe Audition
- Importing with the Files panel
- Extracting audio from CDs
- Supported import formats
- Navigate time and playing audio in Adobe Audition
- Recording audio
- Monitoring recording and playback levels
- Remove silences from your audio recordings
- Editing audio files
- Edit, repair, and improve audio using Essential Sound panel
- Session Markers and Clip Marker for Multitrack
- Generating text-to-speech
- Matching loudness across multiple audio files
- Displaying audio in the Waveform Editor
- Selecting audio
- How to copy, cut, paste, and delete audio in Audition
- Visually fading and changing amplitude
- Working with markers
- Inverting, reversing, and silencing audio
- How to automate common tasks in Audition
- Analyze phase, frequency, and amplitude with Audition
- Frequency Band Splitter
- Undo, redo, and history
- Converting sample types
- Creating podcasts using Audition
- Applying effects
- Enabling CEP extensions
- Effects controls
- Applying effects in the Waveform Editor
- Applying effects in the Multitrack Editor
- Adding third party plugins
- Notch Filter effect
- Fade and Gain Envelope effects (Waveform Editor only)
- Manual Pitch Correction effect (Waveform Editor only)
- Graphic Phase Shifter effect
- Doppler Shifter effect (Waveform Editor only)
- Effects reference
- Apply amplitude and compression effects to audio
- Delay and echo effects
- Diagnostics effects (Waveform Editor only) for Audition
- Filter and equalizer effects
- Modulation effects
- Reduce noise and restore audio
- Reverb effects
- How to use special effects with Audition
- Stereo imagery effects
- Time and pitch manipulation effects
- Generate tones and noise
- Mixing multitrack sessions
- Video and surround sound
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Saving and exporting
Keys for playing and zooming audio
These partial lists include the shortcuts that Adobe Audition experts find most useful. For a complete list of shortcuts, choose Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts.
Result |
Windows shortcut |
macOS shortcut |
|---|---|---|
Toggle between Waveform and Multitrack Editor |
1 |
1 |
| Switch to CD layout from waveform or multitrack |
8 | 8 |
| Switch to waveform mode from CD layout or multitrack |
9 | 9 |
Start and stop playback |
Spacebar |
Spacebar |
Move current-time indicator to beginning of timeline |
Home |
Home |
Move current-time indicator to end of timeline |
End |
End |
Move current-time indicator to the previous marker, clip, or selection edge |
Ctrl+Left Arrow |
Command+Left Arrow |
Move current-time indicator to next marker, clip, or selection edge |
Ctrl+Right Arrow |
Command+Right Arrow |
Toggle preference for Return CTI To Start Position On Stop |
Shift+X |
Shift+X |
Zoom in horizontally |
= |
= |
Zoom in vertically |
Alt+= |
Option+= |
Zoom out horizontally |
- |
- |
Zoom out vertically |
Alt+minus sign |
Option+minus sign |
Add marker |
M or * (asterisk) |
M or * (asterisk) |
| Move to previous marker | Ctrl+Alt+Left Arrow | Cmd+Option+Left Arrow |
| Move to next marker | Ctrl+Alt+Right Arrow | Cmd+Option+Right Arrow |
Keys for editing audio files
The following keyboard shortcuts apply only in the Waveform Editor.
Result |
Windows shortcut |
macOS shortcut |
|---|---|---|
Repeat previous command (opening its dialog box and clicking OK) |
Shift+R |
Shift+R |
Repeat previous command (opening its dialog box but not clicking OK) |
Ctrl+R |
Command+R |
Open Convert Sample Type dialog box |
Shift+T |
Shift+T |
Capture a noise reduction profile for the Noise Reduction effect |
Shift+P |
Shift+P |
Activate left channel of a stereo file for editing |
Up arrow |
Up arrow |
Activate right channel of a stereo file for editing |
Down arrow |
Down arrow |
Make spectral display more logarithmic or linear |
Ctrl+Alt+up or down arrow |
Option+Command+up or down arrow |
Make spectral display fully logarithmic or linear |
Ctrl+Alt+Page Up or Down |
Option+Command+Page Up or Down |
Increase or decrease spectral resolution |
Shift+Ctrl+up or down arrow |
Shift+Command-up or down arrow |
Keys for mixing multitrack sessions
| Result | Windows shortcut | macOS shortcut |
|---|---|---|
| Select the same input or output for all audio tracks | Ctrl+shift-select | Command +Shift-select |
| Activate or deactivate Mute, Solo, Arm For Record, or Monitor Input in all tracks | Ctrl+shift-click |
Command+Shift-click |
Adjust knobs in large increments |
Shift-drag |
Shift-drag |
Adjust knobs in small increments |
Ctrl-drag |
Command-drag |
Nudge selected clip to the left |
Alt+comma |
Option+comma |
Nudge selected clip to the right |
Alt+period |
Alt+period |
| Nudge selected clip up | Alt+up arrow | Option+up arrow |
| Nudge selected clip down | Alt+down arrow | Option+down arrow |