Adobe have announced a forthcoming v1.5 update to Audition, adding support for VST effect plug-ins in the process!

Main new features:

• VST plug-in support.
• Integrated CD burning.
• ReWire support.
• Frequency space editing.
• Pitch correction.
• Enhanced support for video.
• Clip time stretching.
• Automatic click/pop elimination.
• New sample sessions.
• Vocal/instrumental extraction.
• New royalty-free loops.
• Save custom keyboard shortcuts.
• Flexible envelope scaling.

Audition costs $299 USD, upgrades from v1.0 or Cool Edit Pro 2.x are available for $69 USD. Audition v1.5 is expected to ship in late May 2004.