The spectral frequency display still sets the pace. Version 26.5.0 arrives quietly.
- Multitrack and waveform editing in one workspace
- Over 50 built-in effects for mixing and repair
- Spectral view for surgical noise removal
- Remix that fits a track to a length
The September 2026 release brings improvements, not upheaval. Same two modes, same cleanup tools. For people who already know what to reach for. 22 interface languages.
After the interview
A podcast producer wraps a remote recording. Two voices, one local, one from a guest with a bad headset. The room tone is different on each track. The guest's mic has a hum.
She opens both files on adjacent tracks. The local voice gets the standard channel strip—gate, a little compression, a high-pass filter at 80 Hz. The guest track needs more. She isolates a half-second of pure hum, captures the noise print, and applies it across the whole clip. Then a gentle de-esser where the headset got harsh. The spectral display confirms the hum is gone. The waveform looks clean.
Ten minutes. Two voices now sit in the same room.
Neighbors
Logic Pro handles multitrack recording well and ships with a vast sound library. But its audio repair tools stay shallow. No spectral editor. No noise print capture. If a track has hum, you reach for a third-party plugin—or you open Audition.
Reaper is lighter, deeply configurable, and handles large sessions gracefully. Its editing is precise. Yet spectral cleanup arrives via community scripts and extensions, not as a core panel. Audition builds it in. One click from the waveform.
DaVinci Resolve Fairlight covers basic dialogue editing and mixing inside a video workflow. Good for rough cuts. But surgical repair—isolating a chair squeak, scrubbing a siren from a field recording—is not its territory. Audition treats audio as the main event.
First tweaks
Three settings change the feel immediately.
Default input device. Under Audio Hardware preferences, set it to your interface, not the system default. Audition remembers it per session type.
Spectral resolution. In Spectral Display preferences, increase the FFT size to 4096 or higher. Slower redraw, but far sharper separation of sounds. Essential for any cleanup work.
Auto-save interval. Under General preferences, drop it to three minutes. Large multitrack sessions crash occasionally. An extra backup costs nothing.
Plane removal
You start with a blank multitrack session. Drag in a field recording from yesterday: birds, wind, a distant plane. The waveform lights up. A quick listen confirms the plane is too loud.
Switch to spectral view. The plane shows as a bright smear across the low-mid frequencies. You select it with the lasso tool, and dial the gain down inside the selection. The birds stay untouched. Hit play. The smear is gone.
Now you want ambience. Drag a second file—city park, children playing, light traffic—to track two. The volumes clash. You open the Essential Sound panel, tag track one as Ambience, track two as Ambience too, and let it match loudness automatically. A small crossfade at the join smooths the seam.
Export as a single WAV. Three minutes of city park with birds on top, no plane, no abrupt cuts. The session file stays open for tomorrow's tweaks.
