Audition Adobe Gratis

[Brian]

HistoryI purchased Adobe Audition several years ago, as in 12 years ago or so, before they stopped support. Been using it for years and then suffered a HDD crash a couple years ago, got a new hard drive installed, tried to install Audition and discovered I could no longer license it. Inertia set in but during the summer I really needed it, so I tracked down the download site and was successful in getting it installed and running under Win10. Have been using it for several months, and now I need my favorite plug-ins for mastering, and no where can I find the plug in manager so it can be enabled.

All that displays in the Effects drop down (regarding vst) is the following 3 options: "Add / Remove VST Directory..."; "VST Plug in Manager" (I know what you're thinking, bear with me....); And "Refresh Effects List".

I assumed of course that it was now called VST Plug in Manager vs Audio Plug in Manger, and when selected it will scan the appropriate directories and I can click to enable the ones I want, but that's all it does, ever time it's clicked it scans and that's it.

So - If the "Audio" is now "VST", the question becomes, how does one actually select and launch one of the plug ins? From my ancient memory I recall just going to Effects drop down and picking the desired plug in off the effects list, but nothing I have enabled displays, so I can't get them to run.

Went to the Image Line page, and after some mucking about, got my memory refreshed, as I've used Maximus on and off for a pretty long time, and I'd forgotten some things, such as, once you purchase from them, they remember forever, and don't do crappy things like shut down a licensing server. Yeah, that's a dart at Adobe, I maintain and will always maintain they gave the shaft to a whole lot of people by the

What were your 'favourite plugins' that seem to have gone missing? Remember that all the Effects in the Effects menu are the ones built into Audition. The VST Plugin Manager is only for adding third party VST effects in addition to Audition's built in ones. Which version of Audition were you running before and which one now? There were quite a lot of changes when the code for Audition was rewritten to be cross platform compatible with Apple Macs some years ago.

My favoritis plug ins are IL Max from Image Line, and "pink noise" or something like that from Samplitude 7. I have a sort of hobby / non-profit (hahaha) supplying Diesel engine sound projects for ESU DCC decoders for the model train community. IL Max is super for getting a good solid bass to boost the "chug", other wise the sound is rather anemic when it goes from CD quality and headphones / speakers to the tiny speakers used in the models, in fact, you almost have to over drive it and then it plays quite nicely from a sugar cube or other type mini speaker that has almost nothing below 100hz, anyway, nothing native to Audition can compare to IL Max. If this allows links,,,, I guess I'll find out quickly, here is an example of one of my projects:

yes, these are 3rd party, not built into audition. And the plug-ins are not missing, they are on my PC, I just can't get them launched. They used to work fine, as indicated by the video clip. And this is Audition 3.01, the one which is no longer supported due to the retirement of the licensing server,,,, when,,,,, 2009 or 2010'ish??? They call the rest of the line CC now, I think the Audition part is just hanging on nostalgia. And,,,, no way would I ever "upgrade" to current, Audition 3.01 is all one needs for what I'm doing with it.

Add a suitable directory, and put some suitable plugins in it (they have to be 32-bit ones, and not VSTi's). Run the VST plugin manager, and select the ones you want to use. If this is successful, then you should see them displayed like this in the Effects menu:

Exited and re-opened Au 3.01, hit the effects drop down, no VST effect in the list, but interestingly enough, "Direct x" is now in the list, above "Unsupported". (Direct x showed up after I previously deleted all the vst directories and added my test VST directory). Unsupported has a tree to the right with VST in it, but none of the 5 display there, "midi host" does display, but I have no clue where that comes from. Unsupported also has a "VSTi "SoftSynth" in it, which has a tree to the right "Adobe Audition" which has a tree with 3 plug-ins, but none of the 5 I set up and enabled. So I don't where that's coming from.

FWIW - within C\program files (x86) there is as expected an Adobe directory, and within that there is a directory for Audition 3.01, and within that there is a directory called "plug-ins". I suspect some of the things I've seen above may be coming from there, even though I previously deleted that directory from the vst search.

Well, the screenshot came from doing exactly what you should do, on a relatively freshly installed Audition 3 - which is why there's only one effect in it. The only thing I can suggest is that you completely uninstall and then reinstall it, and see if that brings back the correct menu list. IIRC, VST doesn't appear as a menu item unless the previous installing/scanning steps have been successful...

Of course a lot of time went by due to Christmas / New Year, but that's a good thing. FYI I fully un-installed Audition, shut down, full install, result: exactly the same. I'm beginning to doubt my sanity. Just in case I missed something along the way, for the install I ran the following downloads from the Adobe site, which according to my file record were downloaded in June of 2017:

Plug-in manager finds all the plug-ins, and they can be enabled or disabled, that works as it should, but after finding them and enabling them, still no way to actually make them go. The ones that Audition puts in it's effects list all work by simply clicking on them. I looked for a way to stick other ones in there, but the structure must have been coded by Adobe, you can't modify it.

I notice that running the zip it extracts 6 .mst files and a components.msi, the msi is mentioned in the document info that is extracted, I ran it for grins but it appears to be just another installer. 3.01 also has a data cab, which I assume it uses during install, but no clue where. The arrangement and operation of the effects menu appears to be the same under both 3.0 and 3.01.

But you're saying that if you make a selection in Waveform view, and select an effect directly from the VST list, it doesn't open and work as it should? If that's the case, could you provide a list of the effects, please?

Just for the record, I REALLY appreciate the time you have devoted here to help me. I'm starting to fear it's a lost cause though, and I can't figure out why. Regardless, thinking screen pics my answer your last question to me.

I took several, this is after a new install of Audition. I created a VST directory, and also used the plug-ins directory that Audition creates. I then ran plug in manager (which does exist, I'd change the title of this maybe....). I placed a group of test VST's in the directories, all of them come with Audition except for ilmax. Then I took screen shots of the various steps, attached below, I hope, first time trying to attach a pic. Each pic is named by step: (hope this works)

However, from that point on everything is the same as reported above. there is a box "VST", but it is in line with "Unsupported" on the effects menu, to the right of that is a grayed out vst. There is another line, again to the right of "Unsupported" which displays "VSTiSoftSynth" followed by "Adobe Audition" followed by 3 greyed out VST's, none of which match the list I put in the test directories.

FWIW, I still have my original Audition dvd, which will install fine but does not license due to the missing licensing server. Is there anyway to make that work? I'm thinking not, but it's something I've saved......

I believe that's correct, and I have no idea why you can't post pictures - in 'Actions' whilst you're replying, it's the 7th box from the LHS, after the 'list' options. Here are some screen-grabs of what 'unsupported' looks like here:

There don't appear to be any other options to alter this behaviour, and the only other thing I can think of trying is to locate your preferences folder, delete it completely, and reopen Audition. This will automatically create a new 'vanilla' version of it. Then try yet again...

Well Steve, thanks for those pics, yep, looks the same as mine, except of course, mine is missing the "VST" button that is displayed in your pics directly underneath "Unsupported". So, no point in posting the ones I was going to post, they look just like yours.

Of the 2 folders that are there, "UserWorkspace" has 3 empty folders in it. "DefaultWorkspace" has 3 folders, each with an xml file in it. They open and appear to be layouts for the screen display, but I'm hesitant to mess with them.

I then used the add vst directory option and again selected my test vst folder, along with the audition plug-ins folder, and added in a 3rd directory where I had some vst's that I used prior to my hard drive crash that set all this in motion. After selecting the directories, I got the expected message that plug in manager needed to scan the directories for vst's, to which I said ok and it found all the vst's in the 3 directories as expected.

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