Improvement for the Spectral Editor

Question

Within a selected area of the spectral Frequency Display:
1. Be able to work with particular amplitude ranges only, e.g. you have selected a one second area at 5000Hz to 8000Hz and within that area you want to only manipulate the top 10dB of frequencies within that area.
2. Select a particular frequency region (e.g. 75Hz to 80Hz) and have the ability to have its harmonics selected also.
3. A kind of clone brush/spray (like Photoshop) with a brush/spray distribution. Useful for when you have removed a glitch/squeak in audio and it needs a little spattering of noise to cover the whole in the spectrum that is left behind to make it less obvious that something is missing.

Answer 1

>Adobe needs to take a look at U&I Metasynth.
Hmm... Audition is fundamentally an editor. If you start doing all sorts of left-field things like Metasynth does, then you stand a good chance of alienating the main customer base - which, whether anybody likes it or not, is radio users. And the vast majority of their use *is* basic editing. The reason that they like it so much is that it has a clean, uncluttered interface and it's not confusing... even U&I admit that Metasynth is confusing!
The other thing (and this is just an observation) is that over the years, Syntrillium (and subsequently Adobe) have been noted for not taking *any* notice of what anybody else does. In some ways this is good, and in other ways, a lot of people seem to find it quite annoying. Virtually all of the truly innovative stuff in Audition has come directly from David Johnson, and whatever he does seems to bear no relationship to anything else at all - and yes, it's a double-edged sword. It may well be that Adobe are paranoid about being accused of copying anybody else's designs - that's certainly the way it seems to be.
But, one of Audition's strengths is that it processes audio in a sensible way, and provides appropriate tools for this. And if certain things that might seem obvious to some people haven't been implemented, there's usually a good reason for it - and it may not necessarily be what we might think it is, either.