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adobe audition on a windows 7 cpu...

No, it IS awesome but the industry has a tendency to make something a standard and then disregard anything else. There's at least 6-7 good editors/daws out there that will do the job just as well as Audition if you're working in radio. I've used free software Audacity for a year with no problem at all. But everyone's got to have Audition because most freelancers etc. don't really know sh*t about gear and they're buying whatever their colleagues and friends have. So what I mean is not that Audition is bad but a bit overrated in relation to its competitors. As far as problems, the problem with Audition now is that it's more CPU heavy than CEP used to be, it's more expensive (at least where I live) and it's too feature packed.
 
Audition is simple to learn, yet very powerful. Pro Tools, over priced, high learning curve and originally intended for music production not radio. With that said I'd like to learn PT.. but I can do with Audition what someone can do with PT. And for straight VO, PT is not needed. If on a MAC use Twisted Wave.
 
Audition 3.0 is by far my favorite. And we maintain a MAC/PT system in two studios. But it has it's issues. When digidesign sold to AVID there were changes in the software that mandated new hardware outboard units..and many times that required a new MAC. You can find a nice G5 Mac on EBay with PT installed for a great price. It is good to know, but as the different incarnations of AA continue to be rolled out there becomes a blurry line between the two.

Biggest difference (for me at least) is that the PT machines just sound better. Cleaner, and more articulate. The same sound can be had on a PC with a really good sound card. I also figured out that we get even better sound by disabling the onboard video card in the CPU and adding a good quality digital video card that has it's own memory and it's own power as to not sap anything from the main CPU. Might just be my imagination, but a quality third party video card makes a difference.

We have had no issues running 1.5/2.0/3.0 on any 64bit machines. Some of the plug ins get goofy, and Source Connect will not work in 64 bit mode using their current version.
 
Did Adobe pull 3.0 off the market recently? I thought I saw on their site a week or two ago where I could download a trial version of 3.0 and that an upgrade from 2.0 to 3.0 or to CS5.5 was the same price.

yesterday I had this fantasy that some of my technical crises were behind me and I should take a look at 3.0... but it isn't there!!!

I did download CS5.5 trial version. Granted I haven't spent enough time in it yet, but here is my observation about CS5.5: I was expecting on the order of a sport-tuned BMW... but what I see is their effort to make the product more like a Buick or a Lexus. Comfort over performance. What is does do it seems to do very well.

They may have to bury me with my Audition 2.0 ;D

Oh, by the way.. on the original topic: my computer died recently so I am now running 64-bit Windows 7. Both 2.0 and CS5.5 seem to be running just fine, thank you.
 
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