Hadn't used Premiere Pro for decades, and I'd been preaching since Vegas 5.0 how much better it was at almost everything than even Mac FCP.
Vegas truly brings you closer to your projects as it's so user-friendly.
Extremely disappointed in Premiere Pro in 2022.

22 JUNE 2022 and I still cannot believe that ADOBE hasn't implemented this simple but SUPER CRUCIAL feature for editing!!!

This issue makes doing synced audio edits very tedious. Sony Vegas has done this for maybe 16 years now. And here we are in 2022.

I have complained about this for maybe 12 years since I switched over from Sony Vegas (ahead of its time). It's laughable that we are still dealing with an interface that can't draw a waveform in realtime. Its 2022, not 1997.

Bring this to life ADOBE!!! ITS A MUST!!

Having switched from VEGAS, I was very surprised by the lack of this simple and necessary function.

November 2021 reporting in, still no fix.

Came here to post this as well. This was a pretty big game changer in Avid when they introduced it a while back, and it's pretty standard in a lot of DAWs and other NLEs. I would love to have this function in Premiere!

Please fix this Adobe! This is mostly the only annoying thing about the software!

Just today I thought again: Why is this a thing? Every other editor can do this. - Even Audacity.

As someone who is really trying to transition to Premiere Pro from Vegas Pro, this here is a pretty basic function. Please, Adobe. Please tell us that you are working on this. We know that Audition is your designated audio editor, but this very simple function is in many other NLEs (including Vegas.) Premiere Pro is a powerful tool, it shocks me that this isn't standard.

Soooo we pay monthly for this and this was suggested in 2018, Is there any hope?

I'm here in September 2020 wondering why this still isn't a thing. As a software developer, I get that there's probably a good programatic reason for this, but the fact that I can move waveforms around in Audition without losing the visual gives some indication that Premiere should be able to do this, too. I think even iMovie can do this and that's... well, yeah.

Even grabbing the Scroll Bar at the bottom of the sequence loses the display.
CC 2020 is a little better at it, but not by much. Two audio tracks are pretty good, but the grabbing of the clips still does not work. The more tracks you add, the slower the refresh rate. I'm currently working with 25 Standard tracks where all the audio clips are single clip/stereo.
This seems like a job for proper coding for the Graphics Card?
Another thing I don't understand is why the refresh rate is so slow even though waveform files are being generated and stored on your drive?

A short update, I don't know why it's not there yet? Maybe Avid has it patented ? but Resolve has it too.
It's also about the function that will revealing the waveform during trimming.
Vote, everyone, maybe they'll finally implement it after many years to Premiere ....(!)

Yes, this is kind of ridiculous.

This was something that Sony Vegas had like 10+ years ago.

In my opinion, this is one of the fundamental things to fix,
but what chance is there that it can be done? it's strange that upon request for this feature, no one from Adobe will answer, on the request from two years ago :(
I have a hope that these basic fixes will be done by Adobe programmers.

Nope, Premiere still doesn't have this function. Here's hoping Adobe catches wind of this thread!

So, I am assuming this didn't make it into 13.1? Disappointing.

Update...more than six months after Premiere Rush was launched with this functionality, Premiere Pro still doesn't have it. Really hoping this changes soon, please keep passing this around so it gets more exposure!