How to install Audition 2.0 into a CS3 install?

[Tim Kolb]

hmmm…

i know that’s how i ran and it installed fine (Audition CS2 running on a CS3 equipped machine.)

I’m quite sure there is a way to install just certain applications…have you advanced to the point in the installer where it confirms the list of apps?…there should be checkboxes you can uncheck.

(…don’t have a CS2 installer in front of me at the moment.)

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

CPO, Digieffects

[Jim Leonard]

You are correct; I missed this in CS3 and assumed CS2 was the same way. When installing, you have a drop-down of “all apps” or “selected apps” and I’m installing Audition 2.0 right now.

Whether or not it integrates with PPro (Render to SoundBooth, etc.) remains to be seen, but at least I can have a decent audio editor again. Thanks for the help.

[John Welsh]

Jim, feeling your pain. Been using Audition for ages and love its processing power and capabilities. Great software. Rarely use it for its multi-track capabilities–mostly for repairing/tweaking/cleaning audio tracks. Very good in these tasks.

Soundbooth is a neutered dog by comparison. Adobe says they made this switch based on user feedback, but WHY did they deny us Audition users the option to stay with Audition for round-trip editing? I’m afraid Adobe has become the arrogant Microsoft of creative software by NOT giving us users the ability to decides how to make our software work for us.

If there IS a way to use Audition instead of SB for “round-trip” editing of audio tracks in Premier Pro CS3, I couldn’t find the answer in CS3 Help, Adobe’s forums, on the Cow, or anywhere else.

[One post said they did this because Audition isn’t cross-platform… but they STILL could give us the “Edit in Audition” option when we right-click on an audio track, as in CS2—how hard is that to program? Give me a break, Adobe’s a $$gazillion company!]

Soundbooth also doesn’t come close to fully taking advantage of available processing power, at least in real-world comparisons I’ve done. VERY frustrating when waiting for processes to complete for long audio tracks. (i.e., Audition 2.0 on a dual core Pentium machine completes most processes demonstrably faster than Soundbooth on a QUAD core machine! And on my quad-core Q6600 machine, SB rarely passes 9-10% processing power for many key tasks!!!).

To their credit, Adobe fixed lots of stability problems with PP CS3 (not nearly as many crashes as with CS2), although it’s clearly not as stable as Vegas Pro 8. But on this count, they really blew it.

ADOBE: HELP US OUT HERE! GIVE US A PATCH AND GIVE US FREEDOM TO USE YOUR SOFTWARE SUITE THE WAY IT WORKS BEST FOR US!!!