I am Alyce Hale, a freelance video editor. A lot of my work stalls when a client cut is picture-locked but the official track has not arrived yet, so I keep a short routine for building a usable temp score before I open the timeline. I start from one sentence about the scene, or from a still, and I generate a scratch bed I can actually cut against. I often use WAV AI, a free AI music generator and studio, when I need that demo quickly, then I take the sketch into my usual editing tools. I also speak about this workflow in small workshops for editors who are tired of cutting to silence.