John’s Audition Tutorials

This week’s demos are highlighted in yellow        Link: John’s Audition Surround handout  

Getting Started in 5.1

Setting up your 5.1 project
A simple “getting started” video
2:00

Surround Panner PART 1 – first look
An introduction to the surround panner in Adobe Audition
5:00

Listening to surround in headphones!
Because your headphones only have 2 channels (Left & Right) you need to set up your file so you can hear all of the sounds that are routed to other channels.
7:00

Going deeper with the surround panner 

Surround Panner PART 2 – Parameters
What are all of the parameters in the surround panner? Angle? Radius?
7:35 

Surround Panner PART 3 – move sounds
Dynamic editing, changing the position of your sounds over time (moving sounds around the room) 
10:01

Surround Panner PART 4 – Subwoofer
Sending sounds to the subwoofer (LFE) give your mix some deep bass!
4:35

Waveform Editing

Marking up your audio file
How do you identify and mark up “regions” in your audio file that can then be used in your multitrack project? This is super helpful if you have a long file to work with, for example an interview or a long foley session.
3:00

Get rid of that low frequency noise!
If you look at your recorded file you may notice that there’s a band of low frequency rumble. This is infrastructural noise (HVAC systems for example). Use the denoise plug in to get rid of that!
5:00

Editing in the Spectral View
What can you do in that colorful spectral view? Some strange things apparently! This video shows you how to select, delete, even paint out parts of the sound spectrum.
9:07

Tweaking your surround WAV file
Sometimes you want to make little changes to your multitrack WAV file, bump volume up in the left channel for instance, or add an effect to a sound in the surround right speaker. You can actually make edits right in the exported 5.1 WAV.

Using Effects in your Multitrack

Managing plug ins and Effects
Audition effect vs. VST effects. • Loading new effects into Audition.
3:15

Using Effects in your Multitrack Project
Adding effects to tracks in your multitrack project 

Dynamically adjusting effects
Use keyframes to dynamically change the parameters of an effect over time. So imagine incrementally adding more reverb over a one minute period of time.

Using Effects in a Waveform file

Playing a sound backwards
How do your reverse a clip? Use the Waveform editor!
2:15

Slow it down Speed it up – Pitch Bend
Manipulating pitch can be a powerful way to transform a sound (imagine changing a tiny chime into a temple bell). 4:46

 

 

Mangle it!
Why apply effects in the waveform view? How can you completely destroy that sound?

Recording, Editing and Mixing

Recording with your phone 
We all have a piece of recording equipment with us at all times. here are some strategies for recording at home and some examples of my voice recorded with an iphone,

Improving the quality of a sound recorded on your phone
Here’s a short tutorial on cleaning up a voiceover file that was recorded on an iphone.

Loop a clip
Want a sound in your mulitrack project to repeat repeat repeat repeat? Create a loop!

Using Buses to add effects to multiple tracks 
A bus is a special kind of track, you can route many tracks to it and manipulate all of them with the same volume adjustments, panning, or effects.
 

Using SENDS to do tricky stuff
What if you want to have your sound in one part of the room, but its echo to be in a different part of the room? You can even make that echo move using buses and sends,

Importing entire 5.1 files back into your mix
Sometimes creating big multitrack textures or scenes with lots of effects can make your file slow and overly complicated. Edit these in a separate project, export the surround WAV and import it into your mix! This also relates to the video “Tweaking a Surround WAV file” above in the Waveform Editing section

Exporting your mix

Export a 5.1 Wav file
How to export and then review your surround project?

Export a stereo version of your project
Want to listen to your project in headphones? Share it with someone who doesn’t have a 5.1 system? Here’s how.

Export an MP3 of your project
How to export a stereo mp3 version of your project

Extra Weirdness – Making noises with MSDP

Getting Started with MSDP
MSDP is a sound performance and manipulation tool that uses the idea of “guitar effects pedals” as part of its structure. Imagine hooking a bunch of effects together with cables. This intro goes over launching the program, a basic tour of the interface and getting started with an audio file player and some effects. 

 

Working with virtual instruments in MSDP
This is a demo showing the creation of an Additive Synthesizer and how to modify it with some effects. This one is fun because it has a built in arpeggiator that an create complex note patterns. This is just one of many virtual instruments you can use in MSDP.

Other ways to manipulate sounds in MSDP
In this demo I create two different audio file players, one normal one and one called a File Granulator that plays an audio file in little chunks or “grains”. These are then manipulated using two extreme effects Creepyverb and Gigaverb.

Using MSDP to convert a sound to music
What if you want to use one sound For example a voice, to create or control another sound – for example a synthesizer?  Use MSDP’s “Signal to Midi” module!

Official MSDP video tutorials
This page on the MSDP website has playlists of video tutorials that cover many of this platform’s features, from individual instruments and effects to more global tools like the metronome. It also showcases some of MSDP’s video modules!

 

Getting Started

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Waveform Editing

Marking up your audio file
How do you identify and mark up “regions” in your audio file that can then be used in your multitrack project? This is super helpful if you have a long file to work with, for example an interview or a long foley session.
3:00

Get rid of that low frequency noise!
If you look at your recorded file you may notice that there’s a band of low frequency rumble. This is infrastructural noise (HVAC systems for example). Use the denoise plug in to get rid of that!
5:00

Editing in the Spectral View
What can you do in that colorful spectral view? Some strange things apparently! This video shows you how to select, delete, even paint out parts of the sound spectrum.
9:07

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