[Tom Heys]

Thanks for the link, but that site isn’t really appropriate for me as a prospective user. All of the posters on that forum seem to be very experienced users with an intimate knowledge of the software’s history and capabilities; on the other hand, I have never used the software (and don’t intend to try it out without the ability to either record MIDI or use ReWire). Moreover, the product manager and other Adobe employees never address ReWire support, though there seemed to be some loose promise of MIDI sequencing in the CS6 release (in May 2012?).

Those observations aside, it was helpful to understand the business strategy and decision process for this release. I get it now: the biggest part of the user base seems to be made up mostly of radio professionals, who could care less about the features that I need. And I realize that development budgets are limited and compromises must be made. But I was hopeful that I might have found an end-to-end filmmaking post-production product in the Premiere/Audition/After Effects that works on a PC platform; I shouldn’t have directed my general frustrations at Adobe products when really the issue is that there is no magic bullet yet that will kill the Frankensteinian mishmash of different and somewhat incompatible applications that I have to use to do my work. So for that, I’m sorry. I’ll keep my eye on Audition in the future to see if and when it does fit my needs….

Thanks,
Tom