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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
  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
  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. Generating text-to-speech
    3. Matching loudness across multiple audio files
    4. Displaying audio in the Waveform Editor
    5. Selecting audio
    6. How to copy, cut, paste, and delete audio in Audition
    7. Visually fading and changing amplitude
    8. Working with markers
    9. Inverting, reversing, and silencing audio
    10. How to automate common tasks in Audition
    11. Analyze phase, frequency, and amplitude with Audition
    12. Frequency Band Splitter
    13. Undo, redo, and history
    14. Converting sample types
    15. 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

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

8

8

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 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

Maintain keyframe time position or parameter value

Shift-drag

Shift-drag

Reposition envelope segment without creating keyframe

Ctrl-drag

Command-drag

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