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Adobe Audition
Industry-standard professional audio editing
As of 30 August 2026, Adobe Audition starts at $22.99/month. Adobe Audition is a comprehensive digital audio workstation for recording, mixing, and restoring audio. Softwr lists it under Video Production. Adobe Audition is made by Adobe Inc, launched in 1982, available on macOS, Windows.
Overview
What Adobe Audition does
Adobe Audition is a comprehensive digital audio workstation for recording, mixing, and restoring audio. Part of Adobe Creative Cloud, it offers professional-grade tools for podcasters including multitrack editing, audio restoration, noise reduction, and seamless integration with Premiere Pro for video projects.
What people use it for
- Podcast editing
- Audio restoration
- Video post-production
- Music production
- Sound design
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Adobe Audition.
- Listed on UK G-Cloud as part of Adobe Creative Cloud for business (which bundles Audition) at £58 to £80 per licence per month, via reseller ServiceKey
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Pricing
What Adobe Audition costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Audition Single App
$22.99 /mo
- Full Audition features
- 100GB cloud storage
- Adobe Portfolio
- Adobe Fonts
All Apps
$59.99 /mo
- All Creative Cloud apps
- 100GB cloud storage
- Adobe Portfolio
- Priority support
Capabilities
Features
Multitrack editing
Audio restoration
Noise reduction
Effects and mixing
Spectral editing
Batch processing
Premiere Pro
Integration with Premiere Pro
After Effects
Integration with After Effects
Creative Cloud
Integration with Creative Cloud
VST plugins
Integration with VST plugins
Hardware controllers
Integration with Hardware controllers
Adobe security
Adobe security security feature
Behind it
Who makes Adobe Audition
- Company
- Adobe Inc
- Based in
- San Jose, CA
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