Extracting audio tracks from a specialized CD

Question

I am quite new to the Adobe A/V applications having used Sony Sound Forge and Vegas for many years. I am now a monthly Creative Cloud subscriber and thought it might be a good idea to learn Audition, Premiere, etc. since I also use Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Lightroom, and Acrobat.
My audio workflow is probably quite different than most in that I work part-time at a church and deal with a number of CDs that always contain split tracks (instruments left; voices right), and usually a demo track and a stereo instrument only track. The split track and stereo instrument versions of the song contain multiple tracks within them for practice purposes. When I use the "Extract audio from CD..." command I usually select all of the tracks but would like to have all of those tracks included in ONE .wav file with markers inserted at each track. Is that possible?
The only way I have been able to reconstruct the multi-track single song files after extracking them in Audition is to open each track in Audition and then create a multitrack session and piece each song together on a single track line. This is time consuming, especially when some of the CDs have multiple songs and  may contain 70-90 individual tracks (divisions).
Another thing I have not been able to figure out how to do is to take a split track that is contained within a stereo Audition track in a multitrack session and create two mono tracks - one containing the instruments, and one containing the voices. Our choir director will sometimes want to eliminate parts of the vocal tracks and use a soloist instead and having the two tracks as separate mono tracks makes that easier, although I know I can open the piece up in the waveform editor and have access to either the left or right track separately.
I am also looking for a manual or online course for learning several of the Adobe products. Any suggestions?
Your help is most appreciated!

Answer 1

Thank you durin! Yes, File > Open Append is much faster. It requires, however, that I know which track numbers make up an entire song. Then the Edit > Extract Channels to Mono Files works great too. After working on the individual tracks I then Ctrl-clicked on each track and did Multitrack > Bounce To New Track > Selected Track to convert it back into a stereo track in the waveform editor. From there I can add it to a CD layout along with the other songs we are going to use on a Sunday.
I’m still working on the editing of the sermons I record for the purpose of burning CDs and also putting on our website. There are a lot of pauses that I need to take out and I have used Audition to help automate that process. I haven’t quite gotten it adjusted correctly yet as it seems to be deleting too much. I am also looking for a way to do a global delete of certain sounds like the sound many speakers make just before starting a sentence by putting their tongue against the front of their lower teeth and making a “clicking” sound.
I really like your “Skip Selection” option as I use a similar command in Sound Forge to check the area I am about to delete to check continuity before deleting the selection. In fact, I programed my mouse to do that with the push of one of its buttons. Will probably do that in Audition too.
I’m beginning to like Audition more and more each time I use it. Can’t wait to learn Premiere and its related applications!