App preset
Adobe Audition: controller layout for Mac
Adobe Audition can be driven from a game controller, a MIDI pad, or an adaptive controller on a Mac. InputConfig sends real keyboard and mouse events, so the app sees an ordinary keyboard and mouse. This is the layout the app's Smart Preset Maker builds for it: Audio editing, play and record, zoom, cut, mark, undo and save.
Get the preset in two clicks
- Open InputConfig and click Smart Preset Maker on the welcome screen.
- Search for Adobe Audition and pick it. The layout below is created as a preset in your sidebar, named and ready.
- Press Activate. Every row can be changed afterwards: the editor's Scan button rebinds any control the moment you touch it.
The full button map
| Controller | Sends | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Left stick left | Mouse motion left (speed 16) | Left stick left moves the cursor left across the waveform |
| Left stick right | Mouse motion right (speed 16) | Left stick right moves the cursor right across the waveform |
| Left stick up | Mouse motion up (speed 16) | Left stick up moves the cursor up |
| Left stick down | Mouse motion down (speed 16) | Left stick down moves the cursor down |
| Right stick left | Scroll left | Right stick left scrolls the timeline left |
| Right stick right | Scroll right | Right stick right scrolls the timeline right |
| Right stick up | Scroll up | Right stick up scrolls the track list up |
| Right stick down | Scroll down | Right stick down scrolls the track list down |
| Left trigger | - | Left trigger presses minus to zoom out on time |
| Right trigger | = | Right trigger presses equals to zoom in on time |
| A / Cross | Space | A presses Space to play or stop |
| B / Circle | Shift (Left), Space | B presses Shift+Space to start recording |
| X / Square | Ctrl (Left), X | X presses Ctrl+X to cut the selection |
| Y / Triangle | M | Y presses M to add a marker at the playhead |
| LB / L1 | Ctrl (Left), Z | Left bumper presses Ctrl+Z to undo |
| RB / R1 | Ctrl (Left), V | Right bumper presses Ctrl+V to paste |
| L3 (left stick click) | Ctrl (Left), C | Left stick click presses Ctrl+C to copy the selection |
| D-pad up | Ctrl (Left), A | D-pad up presses Ctrl+A to select the entire file |
| D-pad down | M | D-pad down presses M to add a marker |
| D-pad left | Ctrl (Left), Z | D-pad left presses Ctrl+Z to undo |
| D-pad right | Ctrl (Left), Shift (Left), Z | D-pad right presses Ctrl+Shift+Z to redo |
| Back / Share / Select | Escape | Back presses Esc to stop playback |
| Start / Options | Ctrl (Left), S | Start presses Ctrl+S to save the file |
Button names follow the Xbox / PlayStation pair shown in the editor, so A / Cross is the bottom face button on either pad. On a Switch Pro Controller the bottom button is labelled B; the mapping still fires on position.
Tips
- A toggles play and stop with the spacebar, B starts recording with Shift+Space, and Y drops a marker with M.
- The triggers zoom the timeline out and in with the minus and equals keys, while the right stick scrolls through the session.
Make it yours
Nothing here is fixed. Rows can be re-scanned to a different control, given hold and double-tap actions, chords, turbo, macros, haptic or spoken feedback, and per-binding deadzones and sensitivity curves. The binding editor guide covers every option, and the controller map shows what each control is called.
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