Adobe Audition 2026

About this release

Audition is two applications sharing one window. The waveform editor works destructively on a single file, which is where restoration and repair happen, and the multitrack editor is a full session environment with buses, sends, automation and effect racks. Most work moves between them constantly, and a clip edited in one updates in the other without a save and reimport step.

Restoration is what Audition is best known for. The spectral frequency display draws sound as an image, so a cough, a chair squeak or a hum can be selected with a lasso and removed while everything around it stays untouched. The noise reduction, click removal and de reverb processors are strong enough that unusable location recordings often turn into broadcast quality dialogue in a few minutes.

The multitrack side handles the rest of a production. Podcasts, radio pieces, film dialogue premixes and sound design sessions all fit comfortably, with unlimited tracks, real time effect racks on every channel, bus routing, and automation that can be drawn or recorded live. Loudness matching applies broadcast and streaming targets across a whole session rather than clip by clip.

It also sits properly beside a video editor. A sequence hands off with the video reference intact, the session syncs to picture, and the finished mix goes back the same way. Batch processing covers the repetitive work of normalising, converting and topping and tailing a folder of files in a single pass.

What it does

Spectral frequency display

Draw a selection around an unwanted sound and remove it without touching the rest of the recording.

Restoration processors

Noise reduction, click removal, hum removal and de reverb that hold up on bad location audio.

Multitrack sessions

Unlimited tracks, bus routing, sends and real time effect racks on every channel.

Loudness matching

Broadcast and streaming targets applied across a whole session in one pass.

Video reference

Sync a session to picture and hand the finished mix back to the editor.

Batch processing

Normalise, convert and trim a whole folder in a single configured run.

Changed in this version

• Faster spectral display redraw on long files.
• Improved de reverb behaviour on small room recordings.
• New effect rack presets for dialogue and podcast work.
• Session open time reduced on projects with many tracks.
• Better handling of variable frame rate video references.

System requirements

Install order

1. Unpack the archive to a folder without accents in the path.
2. Close any other audio application that holds the sound device.
3. Run the installer to completion.
4. Open the application once and set the audio device and buffer size before recording.

Worth knowing before you start

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