Ever since the dawn of Mac's they have been loved by the creative industries. Whether it was Midi keyboards back in the day on OS9 or people manipulating their photos on Lightroom or Adobe Photoshop. And now my favourite audio editing application is heading the way of Snow Leopard.
Now one of my specialist subjects is sound. It's close to my heart - my day job is spent making things sound great and come out of your Radio.
Today in OS X we can find some of the industries leading Sound Editing programmes:
From Pro Tools to Logic at the top end right down to the completely free Garageband and Audacity. If your laying down a new Dubstep track or editing your own podcast, they're is an app for that (and I'll be looking at some of the options in the coming weeks).
However my favourite audio software for radio production is Adobe Audition. It started life as Cool Edit Pro in the late 90's and from its inception it became the de facto choice for the manipulation of sound and mixing for me. It still used daily across many international broadcasters.
There is though an issue. As I write, Audition will only run on Windows. Up until now there has never been a version for the Mac. Ironic given that more and more creative media professionals are flocking to Macbook Pro's and iMac's. Often colleagues ask me how if there is a way of running it on OS X. Sadly the only way to get it on your Mac is to Bootcamp and run it on Windows.
Finally the gods at Adobe have answered our prayers though:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/audition/
Checking out the Preview videos, it seems to be looking good and as soon as I can get my hands on a beta I shall give it a spin.
