Adobe Audition
Mix, edit, and create audio content in Adobe Audition audio recording software with a comprehensive toolset that includes multitrack, waveform, and spectral display.
Adobe Audition is commercial audio production software made by Adobe Inc. It was first released in 2003. Its English Wikipedia article has about 520 readers a month on phones.
- Made by
- Adobe Inc.
- Since
- 2003
- Wikipedia readers on phones
- 520 a month
- Source code
- Closed
Judgement
- What it is
- Complete system
- What it does
- Audio editing and mixing for podcasts, voice and video post-production, with spectral repair and noise reduction.
- Adopt it when
- You already pay for Creative Cloud and need to clean up and mix dialogue for video or podcasts.
- Watch out
- Not aimed at music production, and the subscription makes little sense on its own.
- Ready for
- Production-ready
- Runs as
- Desktop app
- What the license allows
- Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Judged on 2026-11-03 from the maker's description and Wikipedia. The license and age lines are worked out directly.
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Commercial
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Every program, Adobe Audition included, runs on a microchip.
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