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Collect your audio files for your project into 1 folder.

To access the audiology library, navigate to: L:\Classmedia\CSD_Audiology. Copy the files you need from the library to your experiment sub-folder. This will ensure that your experiment is portable and will be playable at offsite locations.

To make your research project easily portable, you need to collect all your digital assets into 1 folder. Create a new sub-folder for your experiment in your research folder on fileserver (refer Using the COMM Shares Server) (if you need a new research folder on fileserver, refer Moody College File Server and Shares).

Your new sub-folder will hold a variety of files including the audio files (typically .WAV, .MP3, or .FLAC extension) as well as the Multi-track Session file (.SES or SESX extension). The session file doesn't contain any audio data – only pointers and instructions to the audio files.

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If you have lots of digital assets, feel free to organize using subfolders.

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Adobe Audition is an audio editing tool which has 2 views: waveform (aka stereo editor) & multi-track.

 When Audition is opened initially, you will see the stereo view.

To switch between wafeform and multi-track views, click the appropriate button in the top left.

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Switch to the waveform view then click File > Open. Navigate to the folder containing your audio files, select them, and choose Open.

Click File > Open. Navigate to the folder containing your audio files, select them, and choose Open.

If prompted, choose to import via Copy.

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Switch to the Multitrack view.

When prompted to make a new Multitrack Session, Type a name, navigate to the folder containing your audio files, set Sampe Rate to 44100 Hz, Set Bit Depth to 16 bits, Set Master to Stereo.

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Switch to the Waveform view.

Toggle off the Right Channel using the Channel Toggle Buttons

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Click Edit > Select > Select All (CTRL-A).

Click Edit > Copy (CTRL-C)

Toggle the Left Channel off and the Right Channel On using the Channel Toggle Buttons.

Click Edit > Paste (CTRL-V) to paste the content from the Left Channel to the Right Channel.

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Toggle the Left Channel On

Click the down arrow next to the track name then choose "Split Stereo to Mono"

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Click to the right of the end of your recording in Track 1. Drag to the left to select all the audio on that track.

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Click Edit > Copy.

Click anywhere to the right again, this time in Track 2.

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Click Edit > Paste.

Click the down arrow next to the track name of Track 1 then choose "Make Stereo Track"

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Switch to the Waveform view.

 Click & drag to highlight a wanted section of the recording. Right-Click > Insert Into Multitrack > (your session name)

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Your view will automatically switch to the multitrack.

Click on a clip in the multitrack to select it. Right-Click > Rename to assign a name to the clip.

Switch to the multitrack view. Ensure the Move tool is selected.

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Position the cursor over the left or right edge of the clip. The edge‑dragging icon Image Modified appears. Click & drag to adjust the edges of a clip.

Pro-Tip: use CTRL-MouseWheel to zoom in and out of the mouse pointer's postion.

Click & drag to highlight unwanted section.

Pro-Tip: use CTRL-MouseWheel to zoom in and out of the mouse pointer's postion.

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Press Delete to remove.

Switch to the multitrack view. Ensure the Move tool is selected.

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Click on a clip in the multi-track to select it. Left-Click and drag to move it in time or between tracks.

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Switch to the multitrack view.

 Click File > Export > Multitrack Mixdown > Entire Session

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Type a name for your mixdown.

Set the folder path to your project folder.

Set the format to .WAV.

Set the sample type to Same as Source.

Set the Format Settings to Wave Uncompressed, 16-bit Integer

Ensure Include Markers & Other metadata is selected

Ensure Open files after export is selected.

Click OK.

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Switch to the Waveform view.

If it isn't open, open the mixdown you just created.

Click Edit > Select > Select All (CTRL-A).

Click Effects > Amplitude & Compression > Normalize

Normalize to -1dB

Normalize all channels equally

Choose to adjust DC Bias to 0%

Click Apply.

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Click Effect > Normalize.

Choose to Remove DC offset

Normalize to -1dB

Do not normalize stereo channels independently.

Click OK

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Switch to the waveform view. Open your exported multitrack file.

Click to place your cursor at the beginning of a segment which should ultimately be a new file.

Pro-Tip: use CTRL-MouseWheel to zoom in and out of the mouse pointer's postion.

Pro-Tip: click & drag the Blue indicator at the top of the cursor line to scrub audio back & forth

Select the Markers Tab. Click the New Marker Button Image Modified or type "M" to create a marker.

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Double-click the newly-created marker in the Markers Tab to rename it.

Pro-Tip: There is no option to number your files on export so if you need the output files to be in a particular order which isn't alphabetical, be sure to number them in the marker names (ex: 1-Circus, 2-Diadem, 3-Apple).

Click Tracks > Add New > Label Track

Click to place your cursor at the beginning of a segment which should ultimately be a new file.

Pro-Tip: use CTRL-MouseWheel to zoom in and out of the mouse pointer's postion.

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Click Tracks > Add Label at Selection (or press CTRL-B). Type a name for the Label and press Enter

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Continue adding Labels for each segment which should be a new file.

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Place a marker at the end of the last section. Name this marker END.

Click on the first marker in the Markers Tab. Shift-Click on the last marker in the Markers Tab. Then click the "Merge Selected Markers" button Image Modified

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Click File > Export > Audio Within Range Markers...

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Choose to use marker names in filenames.

Set the folder path to your project folder.

Set the format to .WAV.

Set the sample type to 44100 Hz, Stereo, 16-bit.

Set the Format Settings to Wave Uncompressed, 16-bit Integer

Click Export.

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Once all the labels are added, click File > Export Multiple. Set the folder path to your project folder.

Pro-Tip: create a new folder inside your project folder called "EXPORTS".

Choose to split files based on Labels. If you have a label prior to the first section of audio, you don't need to include audio before first label. Choose to name files based upon Label Name.

Pro-Tip: If the files need to stay in order after export, choose to name files based upon Numbering before Label Name.

Click Export.

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