"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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Iain Churches wrote:
"Iain Churches" wrote in message
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Can anyone list the major differences between
CEP2 and Audition? It would be interesting to
know how the program has developed.


PS. I forgot to add:
There is a tendency for audio editing programmes
to try to be "all things things to all people" Maybe
that is what has happened to Audition?

One of the best pieces of audio editing software of
all times has to be Studer's "Diaxis" However, as the
result of customner feedback, more and more options
were added, until the pull-down menus reached the
bottom of the screen. There were a dozen ways to do
the same task. It began to be difficult to find one's
way around.

They could have issued bespoke, dedicated versions
of the software i.e. TV and film recording,
post production, music recording and editing, etc.

Iain

I use Audition quite a lot as there is still enough of CEP in there that I
can find my way round the menus blindfold, and that makes work very quick.
Bad things? Bloat - clearly. The thing takes forever to load, and quite
often leaves behind unwanted processes when you shut it. Also it insists
on loading every single DX and and VST plugin as it starts; sure it is
nice to have them readily to hand when you need them, but that is rare
enough that I would rather it left them out until I decide they are
needed.

Hmm. That was one of the good things about Diaxis, and also ProDisk
you could define tasks (different ways of working) and prescribe
the plug ins and extensions required for each specific task. So, the
system was up and running very fast, and trimmed specifically to
your requirements. In addition a link to the automation of the console
meant that the desk would be configured also. You select "Voice Over"
and you snap into multitrack with a mic channel assigned to Ch 1 and
foldback ready routed.

It also expects to find them in a Steinberg directory - what's that about?
More bad stuff?

I believe that the plug-ins have probably come from Steinberg CueBase
and also from EMU originally.

Splitting a session into tracks to make a CD is really non-intuitive. You
have to follow the tutorial every time.

I know of one chap who does CD mastering with CEP2.
He uses "Open" to place the first title, then "Generate/Silence/3secs"
to leader and the "Open Append" to insert subsequent titles.
He tops and tails as he goes. It is simple and quick. He uses a
Studer CD recorder which updates the track ID at any leader
(or segment of audio below -60dBFS) CEP2 seems to load
in the time you can open a CD jewel case and place the disc
into the recorder.

Iain