[Gary Eickmeier]

Thanks again to all. I do have a Dell XPS 8700 with Intel i7 processor and
nVidia sound card and 12G RAM. There are a lot of differences to the 5.5 in
the menus and commands, but some similarities as well. I will try it. In
particular I want to learn how to do Dolby Digital 5.1 surround encoding. My
2.0 has the software, but it just will NOT put all of my channels in there,
nor will it play anything thru my rear speakers on my computer. In setup,
the computer will play test tones thru all 5.1 speakers, so I don't know
what the big problem is. Maybe the 5.5 can do it.

Gary



"Tom McCreadie" wrote in message
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"Gary Eickmeier" wrote:



I will see if I can finagle a copy from them. Their story as I understand
it
is that they will replace my AA2 with the 3 if I can jump through the
right
hoops. It is maddening to call them. Thanks all for the suggestions. I
just
can't get used to 5.5 yet. Maybe later.

Firstly, accept that your AA2 can never be restored. It's a dead parrot.
To get
AA3, you could start with the following link to a post on the Adobe
Communities
Audition Users Forum... then assiduously follow all the instructions.

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2124489

(If the above doesn't pan out, and you also have problems contacting
Adobe, I
guess It might be OK, as a last resort, for me to provide you with my
downloaded
activation-free AA3 file, as we were, after all, both purchasers of a
legitimate
software licence? You could thereafter tidy up any required AA3
registration
stuff )

But as Jason mentioned, please don't give up on CS5.5, for there have been
significant under-the-hood performance improvements. (Check out the
Audition
Users forum for details.) Indeed. I deemed the improvements sufficiently
worthwhile to justify my springing for a last-chance purchase of a licence
for
CS6. before Adobe went over to The Dark Side: subscription modeling :-)

I do realize and reconcile myself to the fact CS6 is alas frozen to any
updates
or minor bug fixes - all development being logically confined to
subscription
software versions.