Why is Adobe Audition so hard for me to figure out!?

by Guest Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:27 pm

I have heard nothing but good things about Adobe Audition, so I got it. It's just so frustrating! It's like I keep having issue after issue after issue. Am I doing something wrong?

The first annoyance is the sample rate thing. Every single time I import some audio, it has to convert the sample rate, which is annoying. Then I had an issue with the output/input sample rate not...working.

The second thing is timing. When I record my vocals and play it back, it's never timed right. I always have to shift it, which is fine, but...frustrating.

The third thing is it's navigation. The huge chunky audio strips suck when I'm trying to mix a full-blown chorus. Not sure how to fix.

Fourth is this weird problem I get for some reason where the audio just stops playing. It's like I go to play it, and it plays to a certain point and then there's no sound, even though I can clearly see the rest of the file/peaks.

Oh, and sometimes when I go to record, I can't. There's no option to arm for recording and I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHYYY.

Then there are some effects I try to use and it says something about enabling the pre-render feature and I have no idea how to do that. [/sobs]

The only reason I REALLY want to use Adobe Audition is because of it's wonderful effects. If there is a way to use the VSTs/effects from Adobe Audition elsewhere (though I doubt it), let me know because that would be glorious. This is just way too difficult for me and I kind of want to cry, because I feel like it really shouldn't be this hard especially because I'm not inexperienced at all when it comes to mixing things. Adobe is just...IJASFAioaAISOASH.

If anyone has any basic tutorials/points...Just ANYTHING, please help. I'm driving myself crazy and I know I'm probably just being derp, but this is so difficult for me. xD

...CS5 is what I'm using, by the way. :C