Adobe Audition CS6 / Buying guide
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Adobe Audition 3 (Windows only)
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Adobe Audition CS5.5 (Mac OS and Windows)
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Adobe Audition CS6 (Mac OS and Windows)
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| Audio editing and multitrack mixing | |||
| Multicore/multiprocessor optimization |
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| Media Browser with preview and auto-play |
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| Session templates |
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| All open files with session preference recall |
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| Automatic speech alignment |
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| Real-time automatic fades |
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| Clip grouping |
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| Suspension of clip grouping (toggling grouping on and off) |
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| Trim and stretch of clips and groups of clips |
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| Trim to selection (adjust boundaries) |
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| Preview of edits (skip selection) |
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| Clip spotting (manual entry of start time) |
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| Clip gain and envelopes |
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| Sum to mono (track, bus, master) |
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| Basic clip looping |
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| Advanced clip looping (tempo retiming) |
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| Files panel — play/preview |
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| Files panel — quick search |
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| File and Media Browser “reveal” |
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| Spectral frequency view and graphic editing |
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| Spectral pitch view |
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| Open append |
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| Multiple clipboards |
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| MIDI/VSTi support |
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| Batch processing |
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| Background batch processing |
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| Favorites |
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| Metronome |
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| History panel (undo/redo history) |
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| Keyboard shortcuts with presets |
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| User-definable workspaces |
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| Importing from CD |
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| Retrieval of CD track info online |
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| Output and export | |||
| Fast mixdown |
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| Advanced mixdown exporting (exporting of master, buses, tracks) |
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| Compatibility with new loudness standards, including CALM and ITU |
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| Save All Audio As command |
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| Export Session with Associated Audio command (collect/archive) |
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| OMF v1 and v2 session exporting |
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| Final Cut Pro 7 XML session exporting |
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| Adobe Premiere® Pro roundtrip workflow |
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| Red Book CD burning/CD layout creation |
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| Quick CD burning of single assets and marker ranges |
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| Automation and hardware support | |||
| Stereo MME/WDM audio driver (Windows®) |
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| Multichannel/interleaved WDM support (Windows) |
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| ASIO audio driver (Windows) |
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| Red Book CD burning/CD layout creation |
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| CoreAudio driver (Mac OS) |
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| MTC interface support |
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| EUCON protocol support |
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| Mackie MCU protocol support |
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| Hardware control surface support |
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| Read (manual) automation mode |
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| Write/touch/latch automation modes |
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| Automation undo |
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| Noise reduction and audio repair | |||
| Spectral Spot Healing brush with Auto-Heal |
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| Adaptive Noise Reduction |
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| Noise Reduction processing |
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| DeClicker (audio click/pop detection and removal) |
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| DeClipper (audio signal clipping repair) |
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| Automatic click/pop removal |
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| Automatic phase correction |
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| DeHummer (audio hum removal) |
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| Hiss reduction |
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| Silence detection/marking/deletion |
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| Effects and processing | |||
| VST2.4 (Windows and Mac OS) |
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| VST3 (Windows and Mac OS) |
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| Audio Units (Mac OS) |
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| Flexible effect channel routing |
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| Sidechain support |
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| Real-time effects preview |
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| Clip effects |
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| Tracking of effects |
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| Tracking of effects pre-render |
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| Saving effects as favorite |
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| Saving Effects Rack as favorite |
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| File volume matching |
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| Clip volume matching |
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| ITU BS.1770-2 (R128) loudness matching |
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| TruPeak loudness matching |
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| Time Stretch (Editor) |
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| Clip Time Stretch (Multitrack) |
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| Real-Time Clip Time Stretch (Multitrack) |
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| Varispeed Clip Time Stretch (Multitrack) |
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| Automatic pitch correction |
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| Manual pitch correction |
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| Graphic phase shifter |
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| Generate Tones |
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| Generate Noise |
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| Gain Envelope (amplify/fade) |
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| Fade Envelope (formerly Volume Envelope) |
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| Pitch Bender |
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| Pitch Shifter |
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| Dynamic EQ |
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| Parametric EQ |
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| Notch Filter |
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| FFT Filter |
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| Graphic EQ (10/20/30 bands) |
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| Quick Filter |
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| Center Channel Extractor |
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| Stereo Expander |
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| Stereo Field Rotate |
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| Doppler Shifter |
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| Pan/Expand |
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| Graphic Panner |
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| Mastering effect |
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| Distortion |
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| Guitar Suite |
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| Dynamic Delay |
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| Multitap Delay |
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| Analog Delay |
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| Delay |
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| Echo |
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| Echo Chamber |
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| Convolution |
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| Convolution Reverb |
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| Reverb |
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| Full Reverb |
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| Studio Reverb |
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| Surround Reverb |
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| Scientific filters |
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| Frequency Band Splitter |
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| Envelope Follower |
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| Chorus |
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| Chorus/Flanger |
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| Phaser |
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| Flanger |
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| Vocoder |
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| Sweeping Phaser |
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| Binaural Auto-Panner |
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| Amplify effect |
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| Channel Mixer |
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| DeEsser |
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| Dynamics Processing |
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| Hard Limiter |
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| Multiband Compressor |
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| Normalize effect |
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| Single-band Compressor |
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| Speech Volume Leveler |
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| Tube-modeled Compressor |
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| Frequency Analysis |
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| Amplitude Statistics |
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| Markers and metadata | |||
| Cue markers |
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| XMP subclip markers (compatible with Adobe Prelude™ CS6 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS6) |
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| CD track markers |
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| Markers panel — View markers for all files |
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| Markers panel — Quick search |
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| Markers panel — Drag-and-drop marker ranges |
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| Cart Chunk (AES46-2002) |
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| XMP metadata |
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| RIFF and BWF metadata |
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| Surround and multichannel audio | |||
| Native 5.1 surround with enhanced panner |
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| Native 5.1 reverb |
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| Multichannel file editing |
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| Video | |||
| HD video import and playback |
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| QuickTime video import and playback |
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| SMPTE frame rate support: 30fps, 29.97 ND/DF fps, 25fps, 24fps |
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| SMPTE frame rate support: 23.976fps, 59.97 ND/DF fps |
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| Native file format import and export (selected list) | |||
| Adobe Audition SESX XML session (import/export) |
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| Adobe Audition v3.0 XML session (import) |
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| Adobe Audition SES binary session (import/export) |
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| OMF v1 (import) |
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| OMF v2 (import/export) |
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| Final Cut Pro 7 XML (import/export) |
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| WAV (import/export) |
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| MPEG-1 Layer 3/MP3 (import/export) |
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| AIF/AIFF (import/export) |
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| FLAC (import) |
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| FLAC (export) |
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| OGG (import) |
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| OGG (export) |
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| MPEG-1 Layer II audio (import) |
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| MPEG-1 Layer II audio (export) |
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| Monkeys Audio (import/export) |
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| WMA (import) |
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| WMA (export) |
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| WMV (import) |
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| AVI (import) |
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| QuickTime video and audio formats (import) |
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| QuickTime audio (export) |
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| H.264 video (import) |
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| XDCAM (import) |
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| XDCAM HD (import, see MPEG-2) |
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| MPEG-2 encoded formats (available in Adobe Creative Suite® install only; import) |
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| RAW and RF64 audio (import) |
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| RAW and RF64 audio (export) |
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