With high fidelity, 32-bit internal processing, Adobe Audition supports up to 32-bit files and sample rates up to 10 MHz. Powerful effects, restoration, and pitch correction tools let you create the exact sound you're after.

In Multitrack View, you can add audio, video, ReWire, and MIDI files to separate tracks of a multitrack session and then mix those tracks together. When you're happy with a mix, you can export a mixdown file for use on CD, the Web, and more.

Multitrack View is a flexible editing environment because mixing occurs in real time and is nondestructive. Because mixing occurs in real time, you can change mix settings during playback and immediately hear the results. For example, you can adjust a track's volume as a session plays to properly blend the track with other tracks. Because mixing is nondestructive, mixing adjustments don't permanently change original source files. For example, you can apply four effects to a track and later remove two effects to create a different sonic texture.

With clip envelopes, you can automate volume, pan, and effects settings over time. For example, you can automatically increase clip volume during a critical musical passage and later reduce the volume in a gradual fade out. For tracks with real-time effects, you can also automatically change the ratio of dry to wet sound.

In Multitrack View, you can apply real-time effects to audio and ReWire tracks. With these flexible effects, you can adjust effects settings as a mix plays. Because real-time effects are nondestructive, you can remove them from a track at any time. You can also change the order of effects to produce a different sonic texture. (For example, you can place Reverb prior to Sweeping Phaser, or vice versa.)

Loop-based song creation has recently cropped up in nearly all musical circles. From best-selling pop, rap, and hip hop songs to the alternative, adult contemporary and jazz realms, using loops, even as basic rhythm tracks, is a very appealing and modern technique for making music. With Adobe Audition, you can create your own loops or access any of the thousands supplied in the Adobe Audition Loop Library.

ReWire (a product of Propellerhead Software) is a technology for synchronizing audio applications. You can configure Adobe Audition to accept audio input from any ReWire-compatible application. When Adobe Audition is configured to accept ReWire input, it is referred to as a ReWire host. Applications that supply audio input are called ReWire slaves and the output channels they expose to the host are called devices.