
* fantastic noise reduction (and now they added "adaptive noise reduction" as well.)

Most days when I am teaching piano/keyboard I go straight to Audition to record pupils because: fully customisable tabs mean you can build the workspace totally to suit your own ergonomics, snap to zero crossings in multitrack edit makes comping and editing faster and very accurate, etc.) tempo/time sig support, portability, flexible routing, etc), while Audition is clearly better in various other ways (e.g. And if those comparissons are made, the truth seems to me to be that REAPER is indeed better in a pile of areas (e.g.
ADOBE AUDITION WON'T PLAY FULL
With AA3 though it is certainly possible to use it as a full DAW instead of REAPER. It remains hugely popular in radio with bulk licences at big broadcasters in quantities which Justin can still only dream of (if he gives a damn of course!). And for some, a single interface is all they will get their heads around.
ADOBE AUDITION WON'T PLAY HOW TO
Apart from perhaps the stereo editor element, you could choose "better" alternatives for mutitrack and midi, but you'd have to learn how to use them as well as how to use Audition, if you need all three elements in the priority I've described. In its current form - IMHO - it still offers a lot to someone who wants an integrated product and whose needs lie first in stereo editing and 'restoration', second in multitrack (eg voice over music bed) and thirdly in VSTi (eg creating simple music bed to go under the voice). Belatedly adding Asio support after it became Audition meant re-writing the app (or substantial parts) from the ground up. (What is perhaps most significant about this release is that it's no longer part of an Adobe suite, so its development doesn't have to tie in with other products).

Development perhaps faltered during the Adobe takeover of Syntrillium and the repositioning of the product to fit in with the Adobe video products. It's had the multitrack element since the far off days of Cool Edit Pro. If days later I decide it doesn't sound good, I can remove tweak to my heart's content. In Reaper, I can tune in real time by plugging AT into a track, capturing only the audio I want corrected, and it syncs with the clock. So my choices are to use the auto mode plugged in and applied to the entire vocal track (no thanks.if I wanted chipmunks I would hire some), or use graphical mode destructively in edit view. It is a miserable failure because AA does not provide host timing information. Then I tried plugging AutoTune 5 into a track in "multitrack view," and guess what. For all the cool improvements in DAW functionality, AA still cannot record both mic/line inputs simultaneously from my EMU Audio Dock (which Reaper can). Well, Mamma is going to have to do without me! I installed AA3 this morning and checked just 2 things. I have been wondering if I would end up going "back to Mamma" with AA3 once I got it.

On their promo video, it looked like a lot of the reasons I abandoned AA for Reaper in the first place (mainly midi support, VSTi support, and other slick things like auto-crossfades, etc.) had been added to AA3.
ADOBE AUDITION WON'T PLAY UPGRADE
I just got my upgrade to Adobe Audition, the long-hyped verion 3.0.
