Duration: 4 Days
This course teaches you about the cross-platform tools that video and film professionals, broadcast engineers, and audio specialists need for recording, editing, mixing, creating soundtracks, and restoring audio.
What You Will Learn
- High-performance audio playback
- Royalty free content
- Native 5.1
surround sound capability
- Roundtrip editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CC
- Open Media Format (OMF) and XML support project exchange with Avid Pro Tools and
third-party NLEs
Audience
Anyone who wants to use Adobe Audition for music production and composition
Prerequistes
- Practical working knowledge of Mac OS X or Windows
- Basic knowledge of audio
terminology is recommended
Course Outline
1. Audio Interfacing
- Audio interface basics
- Mac OS X
audio setup
- Windows setup
- Testing inputs and outputs
with Audition (Mac or Windows)
- Using external interfaces
2. The Audition Environment
- Audition's dual personality
- The Audition Workspace
- Navigation
3. Basic Editing
- Opening a file for editing
- Selecting a region for editing and changing its level
- Cutting, deleting, and pasting audio regions
- Cutting and pasting with multiple clipboards
- Extending and shortening musical selections
- Simultaneous mixing and pasting
- Repeating part of a waveform to create a loop
- Showing waveform data under the cursor
- Fading regions to reduce artifacts
4. Signal Processing
- Effects basics
- Using the
Effects Rack
- Amplitude and
Compression effects
- Delay
and echo effects
- Filter and
EQ effects
- Modulation
effects
- Noise
reduction/restoration
- Reverb effects
- Special
effects
- Stereo imagery
effects
- Time and Pitch
effect
- Third-party effects
(VST and AU)
- Using the
Effects menu
- Managing
presets
5. Audio Restoration
- About audio restoration
- Reducing hiss
- Reducing
crackles
- Reducing pops and
clicks
- Reducing broadband
noise
- De-humming a file
- Removing artifacts
- Manual artifact removal
- Alternate click removal
- Sound removal
6. Mastering
- Mastering basics
- Step 1: equalization
-
Step 2: dynamics
- Step 3: ambience
-
Step 4: stereo imaging
- Step 5: "push" the drum hits; then
apply the changes
- Mastering
diagnostics
7. Sound Design
- About sound design
- Creating
rain sounds
- Creating a
babbling brook
- Creating
insects at night
- Creating
an alien choir
- Creating
sci-fi machine effects
- Creating an alien drone flyby
- Extracting frequency bands
8. Creating and Recording Files
- Recording into the Waveform Editor
- Recording into the Multitrack Editor
- Checking remaining free space
- Drag-and-dropping into an Audition Editor
- Importing tracks as individual files from an audio CD
- Importing tracks as a single file from an audio CD
- Saving a template
9. Multitrack Editor Orientation
- About Multitrack production
- Multitrack and Waveform Editor integration
- Changing track colors
- Loop
selections for playback
- Track controls
- Channel
mapping in the Multitrack Editor
- Side-chaining effects
10. The Multitrack Mixer View
11. Editing Clips
- Creating a DJ-style continuous music mix (mixtape) with crossfading
- Mixing or exporting a collection of clips as a single file
- Selecting and merging all clips in a track into a single file
- Editing for length
- Clip
edits: Split, Trim, Volume
- Extending a clip via looping
12. Creating Music with Sound Libraries
- About sound libraries
- Getting started
- Building a
rhythm track
- Adding
percussion
- Adding melodic
elements
- Using loops with
different pitch and tempo
- Adding effects
13. Recording in the Multitrack Editor
- Getting ready to record a track
- Setting up the metronome
- Recording a part in a track
- Recording an additional part (overdub)
- "Punching" over a mistake
- Composite recording
14. Automation
- About automation
- Clip
automation
- Track automation
15. Mixing
- About mixing
- Testing your acoustics
- The
mixing process
- Exporting a
stereo mix of the song
- Burning an audio CD of the song
- Exporting to SoundCloud
Course Labs
