And another one: I wonder if the "play effect tail when stop playback" option could be extended to audio file editing too? Or, if preferred, a separate checkbox option could be added for this. This would make it easier to assess time-based FX processing for single files as well.
Additionally, as the number of selectable options in Preferences grows, a search box for text items in the options menu would be highly beneficial. Reaper has a simple implementation of this feature, and although it covers a much broader range of options, I’ve found it an easy method for quickly checking whether a specific option exists in a program without having to browse through each Preferences page manually.
Lastly, adding a preview editor alongside these features could make tasks significantly easier for small content creators like us.
(01-05-2025, 10:21 PM)pavelgazi Wrote: And another one: I wonder if the "play effect tail when stop playback" option could be extended to audio file editing too? Or, if preferred, a separate checkbox option could be added for this. This would make it easier to assess time-based FX processing for single files as well.
Additionally, as the number of selectable options in Preferences grows, a search box for text items in the options menu would be highly beneficial. Reaper has a simple implementation of this feature, and although it covers a much broader range of options, I’ve found it an easy method for quickly checking whether a specific option exists in a program without having to browse through each Preferences page manually.
Lastly, adding a preview editor alongside these features could make tasks significantly easier for small content creators like us.
Hi,
We have checked the preview editor of Audition. It seems it is only for displaying the audio waveform and spectrogram after applying processing. It will re-apply processing to audio selection each time the time selection and effect parameters are changed. We think the strategy is clumsy and unsure of the benefit of adding the preview editor.
02-01-2025, 02:58 AM (This post was last modified: 02-01-2025, 03:16 AM by balanced.)
Thank you for the very useful additions for Frequency analysis panel! It's so much easier to compare files or sections of files now. If there would be an option to adjust individual snapshot level (in dB) or even match them at some point later, it would make comparing plots even easier. Now to compare different versions of a mastered song for example you have to first lufs normalize the actual files to same value and then make snapshots of them. I understand that it would be another option and more work of course.
I wonder if I did it myself somehow, but it seems that I can't adjust the frequency axis options anymore, other than note/frequency selection and zoom. See attached image. I remember being able to use those options before.
(02-01-2025, 02:58 AM)balanced Wrote: Thank you for the very useful additions for Frequency analysis panel! It's so much easier to compare files or sections of files now. If there would be an option to adjust individual snapshot level (in dB) or even match them at some point later, it would make comparing plots even easier. Now to compare different versions of a mastered song for example you have to first lufs normalize the actual files to same value and then make snapshots of them. I understand that it would be another option and more work of course.
I wonder if I did it myself somehow, but it seems that I can't adjust the frequency axis options anymore, other than note/frequency selection and zoom. See attached image. I remember being able to use those options before.
Anyway, thanks again for the updates!
Hi,
Thanks for your feedback. We will support adjusting the gain of snapshots in future versions.
Currently, we only support logarithmic frequency scales with octave smoothing because each octave band has the same width in a logarithmic scale. We are unsure if there is a need to display smoothed spectra in other scales. We welcome your suggestions.
Ok thanks for the explanation. And thank you for supporting the gain adjustment!
While playing with the snapshots I discovered however one problem: If you adjust the range between logarithmic and linear (other than fully logarithmic) and then switch smoothing on, the snapshot frequencies will get way out of place. You have to have the fully logarithmic option first swithed on, then it will show them correctly.
The thing is though that fully logarithmic display gives so much visible range for low frequencies that it's harder to see the information in higher frequencies. It's useful for viewing the low range in detail though. I tend to use couple of notches toward linear from fully logarithmic for general viewing or all frequencies.
It would be ideal if the snapshots would compress / expand horizontally with the scale selection though, then you would get the best of all options. Limiting the view to only fully logarithmic while using smoothing would avoid the problem, but unfortunately that is not very informative way of viewing the full spectrum, in my experience.
02-12-2025, 04:57 AM (This post was last modified: 02-12-2025, 05:06 AM by balanced.)
I will attach images of fully logarithmic scale used by Soundop and an example of a commercial VST analyzer, just to demonstrate how frequencies are usually spread when you aim for a general view of frequency spectrum. See how the 0-20Hz range for example takes up third of the space for logarithmic view, being largely uninformative. It is of course great to be able to zoom in horizontally or change the way frequencies are spread, to see low frequencies in more detail for example. But if you would have to have only one fixed setting (with smoothing and zooming options) for working with music, podcasts or whatever real world audio content, the other example I attached would be a lot more usable, when using smoothing. And some kind of an industry standard I guess. As smoothing in rta or static plots is used in order to make the magnitude vs frequency information more understandable when assessing speech or music for example, it would have to work for this kind of setting to be generally useful.
(02-11-2025, 05:54 AM)balanced Wrote: Ok thanks for the explanation. And thank you for supporting the gain adjustment!
While playing with the snapshots I discovered however one problem: If you adjust the range between logarithmic and linear (other than fully logarithmic) and then switch smoothing on, the snapshot frequencies will get way out of place. You have to have the fully logarithmic option first swithed on, then it will show them correctly.
The thing is though that fully logarithmic display gives so much visible range for low frequencies that it's harder to see the information in higher frequencies. It's useful for viewing the low range in detail though. I tend to use couple of notches toward linear from fully logarithmic for general viewing or all frequencies.
It would be ideal if the snapshots would compress / expand horizontally with the scale selection though, then you would get the best of all options. Limiting the view to only fully logarithmic while using smoothing would avoid the problem, but unfortunately that is not very informative way of viewing the full spectrum, in my experience.
Cheers!
Hi,
Thank you for your bug report. We have found the bug and will include a fix in the next update.
Thank you for your comments on the frequency scale in smooth mode. Please check if setting the minimum frequency meets your needs. If you need other frequency scales for the smooth mode, we will consider adding them.
(02-12-2025, 04:57 AM)balanced Wrote: I will attach images of fully logarithmic scale used by Soundop and an example of a commercial VST analyzer, just to demonstrate how frequencies are usually spread when you aim for a general view of frequency spectrum. See how the 0-20Hz range for example takes up third of the space for logarithmic view, being largely uninformative. It is of course great to be able to zoom in horizontally or change the way frequencies are spread, to see low frequencies in more detail for example. But if you would have to have only one fixed setting (with smoothing and zooming options) for working with music, podcasts or whatever real world audio content, the other example I attached would be a lot more usable, when using smoothing. And some kind of an industry standard I guess. As smoothing in rta or static plots is used in order to make the magnitude vs frequency information more understandable when assessing speech or music for example, it would have to work for this kind of setting to be generally useful.
Hi,
Thanks for the elaboration. You can set the minimum frequency to 20Hz for a similar frequency scale.
02-13-2025, 09:41 AM (This post was last modified: 02-13-2025, 09:50 AM by balanced.)
Thank you! It's much more useful now .
Actually, if you could limit the upper range of frequency range in a similar way, it would be useful for viewing files with 96kHz sample rate and beyond: