Adobe Audition CS6: Favorite Shortcuts

Hilary White wrote recently asking that, since she is starting to do more work with Audition, could I provide a list of my favorite keyboard shortcuts for the CS6 release.

There are hundreds of menu choices inside Audition and every one of them could have its own keyboard shortcut. In fact, you can have two different shortcuts for the same menu choice – which I find very cool! (As a long time Final Cut user, I added two FCP shortcuts: Shift+Z to Fit to Timeline and A to the Move tool. The rest I’ve been able to learn.)

So, here are the shortcuts I use all the time. (Windows users, substitute Cntrl for Command, and Alt for Option.)

NAVIGATION SHORTCUTS

Shortcut	What It Does
	Fit to Window
Command+	Fit everything into the window
=	Zoom in horizontally
–	Zoom out horizontally
Option+[equals]	Zoom in vertically
Option+[minus]	Zoom out vertically
Command+Left Arrow	Move playhead to previous edit
Command+Right Arrow	Move playhead to next edit
0	Display Multitrack session
9	Display Waveform Editor

EDITING SHORTCUTS

Shortcut	What It Does
V	Select Arrow (Move) tool
R	Select Razor blade tool for single track, press again for multiple track
T	Time selection tool
Y	Slip tool
Command+K	Cut all tracks at the position of the playhead

OTHER STUFF

Shortcut	What It Does
Command+G	Group clips
Shift+Command+G	Suspend group without breaking group
Command+E	Exports Timeline Mix
Shift+Command+E	Exports Waveform Editor file

ADDING AND DELETING STUFF

Shortcut	What It Does
Command+T	Adds track
Option+Command+Delete	Deletes selected track
Delete	Deletes selection
Shift+Delete	Deletes selected clip(s)
Option+Delete	Deletes selected Time selection and pulls remainder of clip to left to remove the gap. (Leaves gap at end of clip.)
Shift+Command+Delete	Deletes selected Time Selection and pulls all clips up to remove the gap.

MOUSE-ENABLED SHORTCUTS

Shortcut	What It Does
Command+scroll in track header	Expand track height
Command+scroll in Timeline	Expand track width
Shift+scroll wheel	Slides window left or right
Command+click	Select multiple items
Command+Shift-click	Activate or deactivate Mute, Solo, Arm for Record, or Monitor Input for all tracks; click button in any track.
Shift+drag	Adjust setting in large increments
Command+drag	Adjust setting in small increments
Option+comma	Nudge selected clip left
Option+period	Nudge selected clip right
Shift-drag	Allows moving a clip between tracks without changing horizontal position
Command+drag fade button	Toggles between a linear and cosine fade shape

Let me know if I forgot any of your favorites and I’ll add them.

NOTE: I recently completed an in-depth series of video training on Adobe Audition. Find more details here.

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