I'd much rather Audition play well with those tools and focus on what they're missing. If we decide to approach VSTi/MIDI support again, I'll be pretty adamant that we develop a solution that actually suits our users, the majority of whom are already happily using OTHER MIDI tools with decades of existing code and experience. Audition was designed around a 4-track tape style workflow, and that's definitely where its strengths lie. The MIDI support over the years has never been all that great. The matter of MIDI in Audition remains fairly tumultuous. CD Burning and Clip grouping were the two big ones. We actually heard far less about the loss of MIDI/VSTi than some of the other features that weren't implemented for CS5.5. I also really enjoy meeting our customers and users, famous or not, and learning how I can make their jobs easier and their projects sound better.
However, I'll say that I love getting to work with some verifiable geniuses - it's not every day you get to chat about sound design with the guy who actually made the THX sound (Turn it up! TURN IT UP!). I don't know how interesting an AMA would be, especially since there's a lot I would not be able to answer, corporate messaging and all. Adobe has really been doing some great work with their video products lately, and the momentum just keeps growing, so it's important that audio isn't overlooked. Going forward, I'll be taking a larger, more public role in the product management of audio here. We did have to split our attention between Audition and Soundbooth for several years, but with the cross-platform re-write of Audition, that's no longer the case. I've been on the QE team since 2004, but we've always been a pretty small group and after adopting Scrum in 2006 - first team at Adobe! - roles got blurred a bit and I've been involved with feature design almost as much.
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