Audition VS. Soundbooth

Hello,
I just discovered this site..I've been writing in the beta forum so far. So I'll share want I said so far here:
There are a lot of features in Audition that would be very useful in Soundbooth, simple things like running multiple instances of Soundbooth at the same time, e.g. applying an effect on one file and editing another.
Also, making tracks for a CD, in Soundbooth you have to make loops...in Audition you can make markers that have length (distance) and batch process them.
Also when positioning the cursor to put the marker it snaps to the exact spot whereas in Soundbooth it's not exact.
In Soundbooth the cursor is not in sync with audio waveform, makes editing difficult. [Cursor drags behind waveform.]
These are some things to consider for future updating of Soundbooth...
or else making Audition available for Mac's.
But Audition needs features that are in Soundbooth;
Like, Audition doesn't a have history panel, Soundbooth does. Audition doesn't have preview of entire file above view area. Audition doesn't have spectral and waveform views @ the same time, you must toggle. Although adaptive noise reduction in Audition is impressive....
I noticed another flaw in Soundbooth: when applying time stretching and noise reduction, you can't apply it to a selected area like you can in applying effects. Making you have to save the selected area as a different file then making the change, then copying it back into the previous file.
I'm trying to find an audio effect that works for cleaning up old recordings, I'm having no luck...any suggestions?
user@mac

Okay, I tried it. You are right. The button just doesn't change to saying "apply to selection" like it does in audio effects. Audio effects works better for me anyways, since I'm focusing on background hiss, and the noise reduction is nothing in comparison to effects. Noise reduction tends to distort the sound. That's where Audition came in handy, it had that adaptive noise reduction that avoided that problem.
User@Mac

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    Height                           : 480 pixels
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