Re: [ARSCLIST] Latest Adobe Audition

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Rod. Very helpful.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rod Stephens" <savecal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Latest Adobe Audition


> Hello Tom,
>
> I've been using CoolEdit Pro for many years and find it's the most 
> logical DAW with which I'm familiar.   I also have Audition 1.0 which is 
> almost identical to Pro, but I prefer Pro, since I have all of my 
> customized filters and tools in it.   I also have Diamond Cut DC6 which 
> has some pretty good tools for filtering old 78s and transcriptions, but 
> the learning curve has been a bit steep for me, because of my being used 
> to the CoolEdit way of working.   All of them use a lot of memory, so 
> I've got my version of Win98SE (yes, I still find it to do all I need, 
> although I also have XP on another drive) set up to load only a minimum 
> of programs on booting.   I find the GDI memory is gradually used up 
> (leaked) by all of the graphic redrawing of the wave form, but many 
> times, I just restart the program, and that seems to get some GDI memory 
> back.   I have to really be working for a long time for the program to 
> shut itself down (Audition and CoolEdit), but I've never lost anything, 
> since the program very nicely tells you to just restart, and the file 
> redraws itself.   At that point, I immediately save the file, and then 
> restart Windows or continue to work with a slower redrawing if I'm 
> almost done.  Either way, the program is always making a temporary back 
> up file, so you're protected and get it back on restarting.  Of course, 
> resaving the file periodically isn't a bad idea.   Perhaps in XP, I 
> wouldn't have the memory problem, but I haven't found the need to do 
> that, and I prefer 98 the way I have it set up.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Rod
>
> Tom Fine wrote:
>
> > I'm doing some upgrading in the DAW department and am considering 
> > buying Adobe Audition. The last time I used this program was when it 
> > was CoolEdit 2000, and I had mixed luck with it (it was crash-prone on 
> > my PIII laptop but when it was not crashing it did a fine job of 
> > inhaling a bunch of Quad reel to reel tapes and saving to 4 WAV 
> > files). Are any of you using the latest Audition for Windows? Do you 
> > like it? Does it run stable? Is it a resource hog (the computer I'm 
> > contemplating installing it on is a 2005 vintage Dell 5150 with 2 gigs 
> > of memory and SATA drive buss). I don't envision needing more than 4 
> > tracks under normal operating conditions.
> >
> > Any/all comments appreciated.
> >
> > -- Tom Fine