"Iain Churches" wrote in message
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"Don Pearce" wrote in message

For professional music editing you need to be able to
sweep across perhaps six or eight bars and stop the
cursor right on the point of the intended splice.

People have told me that this could not really be done
with sufficient accuracy in CEP2.1 and I wondered if
Audition was any better.

CEP 2.1 implements no scrubbing at all, so it isn't a matter of accuracy,
its a matter of simple existence.

For continuity, some conductors and producers
want you to scrub in real time from say the beginning
of a movement,

That's called playing.

Going to the start of a movement or the like is something that knowledgeable
editors do with cue points. In a DAW environment, cue points are a little
more sophisticated than anything that was possible with analog tape, so it
may be an unfamiliar concept for people who haven't changed their mindsets
since the middle 1950s.

and then crawl to the edit point, in
which case the view would need to be wide.

Wrong. You can change the width of the track that is being viewed in most
DAW software at will.

The visual reference is not enough.

That's another myth, no doubt based on inexperience and prejudice.

Both producers
and conductors expect to hear what is going on
and hear it with precision.

If you change your mentality to match the power of the new tools (DAWs have
only been around for about 30 years), then hearing and viewing are often
interchangeable.

They either have their
heads buried in the score, or their eyes closed
when they listen. They often will not look at an
editing screen

That's their problem. Besides its no problem at all - all they have to do is
tell a well-trained operator what to do, and he turns that into effective
editing commands.