Editing in digital audio recording software is already almost exclusively the venue of the computer workstation, but the evolving technologies described above will complete that transition from tape playback and remix to virtual editing in most applications.

Considering the advances being made in hard drive storage and the evolution of the RAID drive technology (Random Array of Independent Drives), especially in digital audio recording software today, the capacity needed to edit in a computer, say, a 16-track recording of a classical performance already exists. A single Gb of storage comfortably records one hour of 2-track audio. So 8Gb would handle 16 tracks and 16Gb would handle 32 tracks, and, of course, 32Gb would yield 64 tracks. That capacity of storage is available right now, even without RAID.