adobe audition emily stockseth

review "You probably have scissors, a knife, nail file, and corkscrew sitting around…yet you still have a Swiss Army knife because it puts all those things in one convenient place. Audition is like that. It's a surprisingly versatile piece of software with a toolkit that's unlike anything else.”Craig Anderton, Keyboard Magazine, March 2008

what is audition 3? all-in-one toolset for professional audio production record, mix, edit, and master video projects/ video game sound producing a radio spot composing

features VSTi virtual instruments (MIDI) selection tools/effects paintbrush/spot healing brush multitrack editing new effects: convolution reverb, analog delay, mastering tool, tube-modeled compressor radius time stretching (iZotope) guitar suite top/tail views noise reduction/phase restoration tools optimized mix engine=faster processing click-and-drag handles edit waveform

for $349.00! audition can be yours… (a $99.00 upgrade is an option if you have past editions)

what is music therapy? Music Therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program. (American Music Therapy Association definition, 2005) But that’s not all…

what do music therapists do? design music sessions based on client-preferred music music improvisation music listening song writing lyric discussion music and imagery music performance

how can they work together? record yourself during practice sessions record newly composed songs slow down music without changing pitch (iZotope radius time stretching) arranging songs making a cd for a client, you can fade the songs into each other record new tracks over pre-existing song clients can hear what they’ve added to a session add MIDI to songs to see how other instruments could be incorporated into a session Record/play a beat to improve over/karaoke

pros/cons 30-day free trial! interface is intuitive and simple to navigate comes in 6 languages english, french, german, japanese, italian and spanish it’s won several awards best audio-editing software by Electronic Musician Magazine in january 2009 not mac-compatible unless you’re using it for professional production, you could just use audacity (free!)

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