Adobe Labs has put up Adobe Soundbooth Beta for people to try out. In the increasing trend towards pro A/V tools for novices, Soundbooth is an audio-editing application targeted for whom Audition has a bit too many levers.

Soundbooth is billed as a brand new application, but it has its roots in past business actions by Adobe. Adobe acquired Syntrillium in 2003 and turned Cool Edit Pro into Adobe Audition. Adobe then acquired Macromedia in April of 2005, several months after Macromedia discontinued its SoundEdit 16. Soundbooth claims to be "built in the spirit of Sound Edit 16 and Cool Edit", which is a bit funny given that Adobe Audition is built on Cool Edit.