"Iain Churches" wrote in message
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"David Looser" wrote in message
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Part of the professional music-recording-industry scene maybe.

No "maybe". It's a fact:-)
We still need to meet the expectations of the
client/ conductor/producer, even at the editing stage.

Well yes, I accept that - for the particular part of the particular industry
you happen to be in. But there are many professional uses of audio editing
software where the client isn't standing over the editor whilst he works.

I maintain that the need for audio scrubbing is a matter of backwards
compatibility with the skills and expectations of those brought-up in the
days of tape editing. When film studios operations changed over from
optical sound recording to using mag film the sound editors hated it, as
they had been used to a visual reference, which was denied them by mag film.
And they had to resort to the inferior method of scrubbing to locate the
edit point.

David.