I don't like automating during playback, I find it doesn't really offer precise enough control, and it's a very tedious job to sit and write/save smooth automation moves for the automation gallery for things like pan sweeps, and channel aux send fades, being able to set the cursor, move a control to the desired end postion, then back up the cursor to the move's start point, and then have SS automatically do a nice smooth ramp up/down to the last written automation would be a wonderful thing!
Shawn...