When we encounter things in life we find reliable, they are generally built on a long-standing foundation. Conversely, fresh-off-the-drawing-board products rarely produce perfect results right away.

Adobe’s professional audio editing application, Audition, was first introduced to Mac users with Adobe Creative Suite 5.5. Prior to that, Adobe offered Soundbooth, a less powerful audio editor.

Both programs operate in either waveform or spectral view and let you draw a region around the offending audio to remove just that (Figure 4, below); iZotope’s simply worked better. Specifically, ...

With Audition CS6, Adobe busied itself adding back features that were available to Windows users in Audition 3. The result was a very fine audio editor aimed at sound designers, radio producers, audio ...