Re: [Harp-L] Recording Software Opinions

["Jim Greenwald" <staggerin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Glenn

I, like you, have followed the Cool Edit path from the freebie to Cool Edit 
2000, CE Pro, and on into the Adobe Audition updates. I would most 
definitely go with the upgrade and most importantly, I would START USING IT 
!!
Adobe brought Audition into conformity with its Creative Suite look and 
feel, pretty much bullet-proofed it, updated it to more current standards, 
integrated a lot of indispensable plugins and in general made it a more 
powerful yet elegant multitrack recording environment - with a great help 
system.
I think their half-way development of the MIDI side is unfortunate, as it 
gave them a bad rep with folks looking to cross over from SONAR or Cubase. 
They were definitley buying time and trying to keep their audio customers, 
while they pondered a totally integrated Audio-Visual Application. The fact 
is that MIDI has  actually grown in importance in the meantime and I expect 
that Adobe has got the message. The current trend for MIDI as 
paramter-process control and rendered MIDI sequences to be arranged and 
manipulated in the audio realm bodes well for aplications with strong audio 
roots.
There's always a chance that 3.0 will be the end of Audition as we know it, 
but for the money you cannot get a better hands-on environment for really 
getting down with audio. With SONAR, Reaper, and Ableton Live (applications 
I use), and other apps there's usually a option/preference for entering the 
path to the Editor of choice. That's because they leave that work to 
Audition or SoundForge, etc. When your editor is also a great multitrack 
recording and mastering environment there's a reason to keep ungrading.
Another thing I've found after nearly six years of cleaning and restoring 
audio, you would have to spend over $2000 (Waves + Izotope products) to 
match the tools built-in to Audition - I've got the receipts right here 8; 
( Sure I've got peeves, but you asked if it was worth $99.

Cheers,
Staggerin' Jim


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Labbie" <glenlabb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 1:17 PM
Subject: FW: [Harp-L] Recording Software Opinions


> Richard:
>
>   Thanks for the very helpful opinions on the DAW's.  You did not mention
> Adobe Audition 3.0.  I wonder if you or anyone else has experience using 
> it.
>
> I owned and used Cool Edit for several years and liked it and it did what 
> I
> needed it to do. I used it to master my keyboard numbers on my site:
>
> http://www.gloryharp.com/html/music.html
>
> I got a free upgrade to Audition 1.0 several years ago when Cool Edit was
> bought out by Adobe and I have never used it.  I can now upgrade my free
> Audition 1.0 to 3.0 for $99.00 and was wondering if that was the best way 
> to
> spend the bucks or invest that money in something else.
>
> All opinions are welcomed.
>
> Glenn