Topic: Adobe Audition 4.0

[spyder9]

According to the chatter in the adobe forums, 4.0 will be out on beta in a few months.  Faster processing times, by taking advantage of multi-core processors.  Can't wait.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/308542?start=50&tstart=0
 

[stevetoney]

I'm sure Audition 4.0 will be great.  I just wish the program wasn't such a RAM hog, or so it seems.  I have a decent PC, but Audition 3.0 seemed to bog it down mercilessly.  I keep ending up back at Audition 1.0 or 1.5, which seems to run alot better on my machine.  That said, I'm sure processing digtial audio is a pretty intense process that's facilitated by an uber fast machine.

[stevetoney]

I'm still running 1.0  and found that an extra gig of ram made a noticeable if small improvement in speed.

Same here...I got some speed improvement too when I added I think 1.5gig of RAM.  But it still wasn't enough to keep Audition 3.0 from driving me coo-coo.  Bottom line is I'm pretty sure my motherboard processor speed was the choke point.

[stevetoney]

^ might be right.  If the post 1.0 versions were heavily modified codewise it's possible that that's what you were seeing too.  In that case you'd likely need a good kick in the hardware to get decent processing throughput.  Perhaps 4.0 will be a fix for that.  I've not kept up on the product so I can't even speculate if it will or not.  I just don't change much if "it works for me" I guess.

That's the philosophy I've used too and I'll probably continue to use Audition 1.0 or 1.5.  Even so, there are some features of the newer versions that I like alot and would love to upgrade.

For the sake of this thread, I do want to be clear that I'm not a computer tekkie, so I really don't know the technical reasons why Audition 3.0 didn't run efficiently on my machine.  I'm only speculating based on the experiences that I had.

[heath]

My rule of thumb on all my audio boxes is to put as much RAM as humanly possible in them.  Quad Cores are always nice too