Colin’s Blog

Ok so I have to rant about adobe. I promise it wont be too bad Basicly it realy annoys me that they after all this time still refuse to release adobe audition (aka cool edit pro) to the mac platform. It cant be that hard for them to compile it for the mac like other programs they offer. I’m am not the only one who would love to use this program natively and I’m sure there is enough demand out there for them to do so. Also If I remember correctly before adobe acquired Syntrillium (who origonal made cool edit pro) there was a version for ppc macs. So why couldn’t they have continued with newer versions using apple universal binaries? It just doesn’t make since.

Now some of you might ask why I want or even need this program with the alternatives that are already available on the mac. Well to anserw this I have to say I haven’t found anything that is close to matching audition for my use. I’m also not much of a garageband fan. Also other audio programs like logic or even protools don’t fit in the same category as audition. There is a free open source project that runs natively on the mac along with just about any other platform called audacity, However it often runs slowly and suffers from many bugs making it annoying to use. Also it doesn’t seem to be as functional as audition to boot.

It seems the only way to get audition right now on the mac is to run a bootcamp install with windows which is a dual boot situation hence a pain in the rear or you can run it a virtual environment like vmware’s fusion. However the problem with that is I’m not sure what kind of audio quality you might get? does vmware fusions even support 24-bit sound to take full advantage of the sound card? Also how can you get audio back and forth between both the host os(OSX) and the virtual machine? Hence many things can go wrong there.

So please adobe release a version of audition for us mac folks so we can run it natively on our pretty Macintosh computers And that is my rant for today. I hope I didn’t bore you to much lol.