I think @hcv242 may referring to something I’ve also been a little challenged by - having clear visualization of a loaded/recorded audio sample in the default track view next to other tracks. I use a Focusrite ISA One to record relatively clean vocals directly into Renoise, tracking the tempo and music from the current project over headphones while the monitors/sub are turned down to zero in my little studio.
I’ve wondered though what it might be like to have a ‘sample lane’ for a track that shows the sample waveform vertically (works for the piano roll, why not raw audio? ^_^). Ideally the waveform displayed would align with the note trigger and cutoff, and maybe eventually even audio manipulation parameters like volume control, delay, retrigger, etc. Not sure what kind of perf hit you’d get like that though trying to maintain real-time visual processing for one or more lanes.
I suppose an alternative might be something like what @hcv242 seems to be indicating though - an actual audio lane/track that directly represents what will be played next to sequenced tracks - in theory, all of the same track controls could still exist under the covers to represent offset data, etc. calculated from placement of audio in that lane.
Just thoughts though. I have found myself at times wishing I had better visualization of vocals and other longer audio samples in track view.
like this; https://forum.renoise.com/t/some-kind-of-horizontal-transport-timeline/34400 ?