A: When performing nondestructive editing there is no duplication, or rewriting, of the audio on the disk. This makes edit functions much faster than on many portable studio products, as well as making the most efficient use of your disk space.
For example, when a section of audio is copied from one location to another, the audio is not actually duplicated on the disk . If it were actually copied the audio would exist in two separate locations on the disk drive, which would not be the most efficient use of your disk space. Nondestructive editing uses pointers to reference audio on the disk. So when you “copy” the audio you are only adding a second set of pointers that reference the exact same audio on the disk, not rewriting the same audio to another location on the disk.