Adobe Audition for Mac public beta now available

Audio editors rejoice! Adobe Audition for Mac is now available for download as a public beta from the Adobe website.

Adobe describes Audition for Mac as bringing "modern audio post-production to the Mac." The application looks very full-featured and the performance seems good as well. The company touts the software as having "fast start-up, high performance multi-threaded processing, and parallel workflows." Audition provides standard audio editing and mixing functions and Adobe says that the noise reduction and sound sweetening capabilities of the application are excellent. Audition also provides native Dolby 5.1 Surround support and multi-channel effects.

So, what are you waiting for? It's free, it's beta, and it's powerful mojo for sound editing. When the app finally arrives for real, expect it to cost about the same as the PC version at US$399. A couple of videos explaining how the app works can be found on the next page.

Update: The correct price of Adobe Audition for PC, version 3.0 is $349, and the Mac version will be about the same.

[via MacStories]