Avid Pro Tools and Adobe Audition, two of the well-known DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) software in the music industry, their main difference seems to be one looks more ‘industrial standard’, and one sounds typically as the Adobe Premiere’s auxiliary audio modification program (e.g. Audio effects & noise remover). As I had a 1 year experience of using Audition and a 2 month one for Pro Tools that I just learnt it from my Sound Design elective, which would I prefer for our final project’s editing?
Loading Screen
Let start with the very beginning, their loading screen. Pro Tools had only applied 3 different colors, black as the background, with white and purple as the logo, text and loading bar, pretty dull and non-attractive, right? I guess its targeting user who doesn’t really care about the appearance of a software (not me definitely), giving us the figure of a professional technician; In contrast, Audition had used dark green and tiffany green, a more ‘vitality’ kind of color series as the theme of their loading screen, with a sound related picture (a pretty Gold one) to corporate with, the habit of Adobe when they had entered the CC era, seems to mainly target designers or some color-sensitive users.
Interface
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Next would be the interface. As what we have seen, Pro Tools had applied a light grey color tone to it, clearly shown the duration control and editing tools, with you could assign distinct colors to different tracks, giving us a colorful image which you would never be confused with what those tracks for. The Audition, using a similar interface as Premiere and After Effects were, a dark grey color tone with deep track colors, with an extremely simple and tiny editing toolbar, which presenting an impression of cool and professional.
Track Types
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The final match, and the most important one, their Functions. Let’s use track types as an example. In Pro Tools 12, there’re 7 different types of track in total:
Audio
MIDI
Instrument
AUX (Auxiliary)
VCA (stand for Voltage Control Amplifiers, a full name that hard to understand)
Master
Video (doesn’t provide in Pro Tools First, the free version)
That made Pro Tools became a relatively complicated and advanced software in the world of audio editing, with different icons inserted in the mixer window, that could let us play virtual instruments with, send the same plug-in (with a cool name ‘AudioSuite’) into different tracks, control a group of track’s volume, etc. Regarding to Audition, there’re 4 different clip types only: Audio, Bus (same as AUX), Master and the one for showing Video, which sounds having less functions than the other one. However, their variety of plugins doesn’t have a large different, although Pro Tools had provided the more professional’s to their users.
Besides the price that we haven’t discussed, which isn’t quite meaningful (Pro tools cost $299 in perpetual and Adobe Suite cost $16.99 monthly for students), I guess the Audition would be well enough for our PB4, as Pro Tools would be harder to be proficient with from the very basic, base on my personal experience, and plugins and effects in Audition would be satisfactory for a simple sound work, unless you’re aiming for being more skillful in the audio field?
It is clear that you do not understand how these programs work or why someone might be drawn to one or the other.
“Master and the one for showing Video, which sounds having less functions than the other one. However, their variety of plugins doesn’t have a large different, although Pro Tools had provided the more professional’s to their users.”
What the heck are you talking about.
My guess is that this was translated to English from Chinese.
good grief. this doesn’t make sense! all the sentences are whacky!
My guess is that this was translated to English from Chinese.
WTF. This reads like a homework assignment. A badly-written, incomplete homework assignment.