See the attached screenshot.   Why do the pictures indicate sound where there is none?     In this example the solo'd tracks are silent until rehearsal A (at the cursor) ... but it looks as though there is audio.

 
Here's a recent mix, updated in Platinum ... had some difficulties aligning audio, so was trying to use the visual image for help ...
 
https://soundcloud.com/williamcopper/mag1_2015

One would guess at automation (clip or track or bus) zeroing gain/volume until that point...

Are you saying that nothing was ever recorded up to the cursor, yet the track shows audio was recorded there?

Line noise.

In that picture all its showing is that in the tracks being soloed there is audio or data in them. The relative level when the tracks are so small is not shown. 

KPerry
One would guess at automation (clip or track or bus) zeroing gain/volume until that point...

Yes, it seems the OP is requesting that non-destructive volume/gain processing affect the displayed waveform amplitude, as do clip fades. I believe this has been formally requested in the FR forum.

brundlefly

KPerry
One would guess at automation (clip or track or bus) zeroing gain/volume until that point...

Yes, it seems the OP is requesting that non-destructive volume/gain processing affect the displayed waveform amplitude, as do clip fades. I believe this has been formally requested in the FR forum.

If so, I sure hope it would be defeatable. I want to see what's actually happening at the waveform level; I can hear what's happening with any gain changes. If a wanted a clip down all the way, I'd mute it, which make it obvious what's happening with the audio.

Yes, I would not like it to default to showing a flat waveform for a number of reasons.

Oh... that's what we're talking about?
 
Pardon my Frunch but fudge that! I need to know if a clip has noise on it even if I've used whatever means to make it inaudible.
 
You can just bounce the clip if that's what you want and disable any effects or other crap you don't want printed onto the rendered clip. I personally snip out anything I don't want to see/hear as much as possible. Then I do my fades/automation or if I'm sending a file for someone else to produce I snip as close to the wanted data as possible then export so they can do whatever the heck they want but they still don't have to look at my hums, squeaks and generally squonks.

And wouldn't having auto updating wave graphics take up extra processing power that could be better used processing audio? If so... double fudge that.