Adobe Audition 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Adobe Audition

4.6

(241)

Pricing

Starting at $19.99 per month

About Adobe Audition

Adobe Audition is an editing solution designed to help professionals in schools, universities and businesses create, edit, restore and mix audio files. Administrators can use waveform scaling to control on-clip gain adjustments, reverb background noises and match loudness across music files according to requirements.

Using the Essential Sound panel, businesses can develop envelops to duck music behind audio clips, unify volume levels, add special effects and repair sound. It lets teachers utilize Adobe Sensei's machine learning technology to create remixes of files and produce a shorter version of the original collection.

Adobe Audition is available as a part of Adobe Creative Cloud and is offered on a stand-alone basis. Pricing is available on monthly and annual subscriptions and support is provided via phone, email, knowledge base and other measures.

Adobe Audition Screenshots

Adobe Audition Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $19.99 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Audition Single App

$33.99

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

100 GB of Cloud Storage
Access to Latest Features and Updates
Adobe Fonts
Adobe Portfolio
Apps Like Creative Cloud Express With Premiere Rush and Photoshop Express

Creative Cloud All Apps - Individuals

$79.49

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

100 GB Storage
20+ Creative Cloud Apps
Access to Latest Features and Updates
Adobe Fonts
Adobe Portfolio

Creative Cloud All Apps - Students and Teachers

$19.99

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

100 GB Storage
20+ Creative Cloud Apps
Access to Latest Features and Updates
Adobe Fonts
Adobe Portfolio
Free Templates
Step-by-Step Tutorials

Business

Pricing available upon request

Plan includes:

100 GB Storage
20+ Creative Cloud Apps
Access to Latest Features and Updates
Adobe Fonts
Adobe Portfolio
Free Templates
Step-by-Step Tutorials

Adobe Audition Features

Popular features found in Audio Editing
Audio Manipulation
Audio Mixing
Audio Recording
Plug-in Integration
Video Editing
More features of Adobe Audition
Activity Dashboard
Audio Capture
Audio Editor
Audit Management
Compression
Content Library
Data Capture and Transfer
Mastering
Media Library
Multimedia Support
Preview Functionality
Projections
Third-Party Integrations

Adobe Audition Integrations

Adobe Premiere Pro

Integration rated 4.6 from 34 reviews

Adobe After Effects

Integration rated 4.9 from 11 reviews

Adobe Audition User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

71%

23%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.2

Value for money

4.3

Customer support

4.1

Functionality

4.6

Thomas M.

Verified reviewer

Entertainment

Self-Employed

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2021

My favourite audio editor

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

It has a clean and attractive interface. It has powerful audio features and effects, and is compatible with most popular plug-ins.

Cons:

Adobe software is pretty expensive. And it does crash from time to time.

Reasons for switching to Adobe Audition

For most uses, it's difficult to recommend paying for Audition over the free Audacity. But for me it's worth it for the slightly more intuitive workflow.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2022

Great audio editing companion in the Adobe CC suite

Adobe Audition helps to complete the overall workflow for video editing and can very well be used independently just for audio projects. It is included with the suite of Adobe CC products, so it helps to make it a valuable investment.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

What I really like is the simplicity with which it integrates to other products from the Adobe family, and you can go back and forth to edit audio when at Premiere Pro or After Effects.It contains the most fundamental tools to do the job without leaving your digital workflow on your workstation.

Cons:

I think that it can improve on the way of managing media file elements in a unified way, so that all assets can be managed in a centralized way for a video and audio editing session.

Reasons for choosing Adobe Audition

It integrates easily into our current workflow that is based on Adobe CC.

Reasons for switching to Adobe Audition

It was included as part of the Adobe CC suite, so it was superfluous paying another license.

sipho s.

Verified reviewer

Entertainment

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2022

The observation

Adobe Tryout is strong, cross-stage sound altering programming that is in its very own class. For instance, Tryout has specific devices for tidying up or reestablishing sound and offers accuracy, nondestructive altering for corporate and business video, just as webcasts.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Solid sound reclamation, sound-expulsion, and clamor decrease instruments. Great sound system waveform proofreader. Helpful representation devices. Sticks to film and transmission guidelines for sound.

Cons:

Needs MIDI help. Just accessible through a costly month to month membership.

Verified

Reviewer

Higher Education

5001-10000 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2022

Adobe Audition Leads the Field

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

I have been using Adobe Audition (and its predecessor incarnation, Cool Edit Pro) for decades at this point. I have used it to record half a dozen indie rock albums, make music mixes for radio programs, and record multiple podcast episodes. Adobe Audition can transform anyone's computer into a powerful, fully featured recording, mixing, and mastering studio. It is easy to use and has all of the features industry professionals expect: waveform editing, waveform manipulation, multitrack recording and mixing, mastering filters, and more. All of these come wrapped in a fairly easy to learn, easy to use palletized Adobe format. What's more, Audition's synergies with other software (both within the Adobe family and through plugins) means that users are never working in a "walled garden."

Cons:

Over my two decades using multiple versions of Adobe Audition, I have found little that I don't like. In the early days, I encountered some stability and performance issues with the software, but those don't seem to affect the most recent versions (from the past decade). I could nitpick and wish that some functionality present in plugins was in-built into the software, but that is obviated by the fact that plugins are easy to find and integrate. Probably my biggest gripe with the current iteration of Adobe Audition is its shift to a subscription, software-as-service model. This expense can put this powerful software out of reach for many aspiring recording engineers.

Reasons for choosing Adobe Audition

In looking to move on from an older version of the Adobe Audition, I considered free options like Garageband and Audacity. While those look like capable pieces of software, my familiarity with Adobe Audition, along with the sheer depth and power of its features made the choice easy.

Verified

Reviewer

Animation

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2023

adobe audition is a must for a studio manager

my experience is that it has allowed me to be a good professional manager

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like the most in adobe audition autotun (vocoder) it is true that it is not easy to use at the beginning but with time it will go

Cons:

What I don't like most about this software is that it's very heavy and takes up a lot of RAM space, and it's also difficult to manipulate at first, which was my case

Reasons for choosing Adobe Audition

adobe audition is best for my environment a

Reasons for switching to Adobe Audition

to better experiment with the skills but to my surprise I find that adobe audition is the best to adopt for my environment

Verified

Reviewer

Arts and Crafts

2-10 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2023

my sound engineer

it's a great tool for recording and mixing audio, very practical and compatible with the adobe suite.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

is the leading audio recording and mixing tool on the market.This tool lets you record and adjust multi-track sessions, so you can then manipulate audio tracks directly in Première Pro.

Reasons for choosing Adobe Audition

easy to use thanks to its ergonomic interface

Richard L.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2022

Audio Audition

Every week sermons are recorded on my laptop while live broadcasting at church. It allows me to carefully edit and monitor and save to broadcast on the air the next week's pre-recorded programs.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Capability to listen and edit plus mix music tracts for backgrounds in sermons.

Cons:

After using Audacity it was more complex

Reasons for switching to Adobe Audition

I needed more capability especially in mixing sermons and background music.

Robert M.

Verified reviewer

Media Production

2-10 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2021

A DAW for the Adobe devotee

Audition is a great addition to your suite of Adobe apps.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Audition is a stable DAW and the standard DSP is all good quality, particularly the time based processors.

Cons:

It takes quite a while to get used to using and the structure isn't as intuitive as other audio sequencers. Also, it is only audio as full MIDI sequencing isn't yet supported.

Reasons for choosing Adobe Audition

Audition came packaged with Adobe CC and so there was a price advantage. There's less of a learning curve with Audition too.

Esteban P.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

2-10 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2021

What a great software

I’ve always prefer adobe product because of its professionalism and really powerful tools!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The user interface is really easy to use, and it’s very professional! I love it!

Cons:

There’s no cons, I guess at the beginning it’s kind of difficult to understand but that’s because you are new! But you’ll get use to it! It’s easy to use!

Reasons for choosing Adobe Audition

Because I’be used another adobe products so I know they are really good

Verified

Reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

201-500 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2021

Powerfull tool