Just because someone got out their photoshop or any other tool for making graphical mockups with, does not automatically mean that Renoise should halt all development and start programming a voting system to get some random answers from random people who have not developed Renoise from the beginning and who have no idea about the programming challenges faced everytime one dives in to develop new features or tweak current features.
Grid Pie was coded by a 3rd party guy who took the time to learn LUA and make his dream come true. there are others, such as Rableton Dive, and whatever tools MXB is working on nowadays. this does not mean that they should be implemented into Renoise to replace the Pattern Matrix, as they are 3rd party tools. I would not be surprised to see that the Renoise devteam might take some INSPIRATION from 3rd party tools, but for them to be implemented so that they fit completely into the way Renoise is thought about by the devteam, is not something we can force, and they will continue developing Renoise in the way they want to do it. not halting all development to get some votes in based on mockups.
You thought wrong. User-voting has not happened for ages. Look at this thread . the last time there was voting was for features for version 1.8. Renoise has done splendidly without backstage-voting from users, and is doing better than ever. Almost everything from the 1.8 version votes has been created, improved upon, and then some.
Here’s the image for you so you don’t have to click.
Notice that the users who voted for THESE features before v1.8. also notice that it says specifically: “An Arranger View (visually arrange PatternSequences and Blocks)” which is exactly what the PatternMatrix is.
Also, there are far more people who want “A Piano Roll View” than people who want “Buzz Sequence View”. LUA Scripting has allowed people to create any kind ofsequencer they want, for any kind of midi-controller they want, or for any kind of LUA Gui they want, or any kind of keyboard shortcuts that they want. All of them are experimental, some of them are amazing, some of them are good, some of them are poor. They augment and improve upon the Pattern Editor, Order-List and Pattern Matrix. None of them can replace the Pattern Matrix, not even by a long shot!