Well that’s a silly thing to say since seemingly that’s only you waiting for them, and I never said I had “perfect” mock-ups, but only that I had made a mock-up of an arranger that could solve most of the problems I see with Renoise at the moment.
The way I see it is that the pattern editor should be treated as a note editor mainly. It should be our equivalent of pianoroll, and there shouldn’t be anything that doesn’t deal with the notes. Hell, vertical automation along with the Pattern Matrix would be a better idea even, or this. But please, let’s not try to incorporate every feature of the program to that one section and by that make it a goddamn mess. Verticality just doesn’t work since it’s a standard that time is represented horizontally pretty much always. The pattern editor works because it’s text-based and we’re used to reading from top to bottom, and it’s practical to edit that sort of information and short segments that way. Plus it becomes difficult because these days our screens tend to be a lot more wide while they are rather limited horizontally.
Ps. The post to the arranger I listed above is not a very good representation what I’m after but it shows the idea if you didn’t understand it yet. It would solve: the ability to have a good representation of the song overall, ability to zoom very close to the track (no need for zoomable pattern editor?), ability to incorporate audio-tracks fluently (multitrack recording editing!), automation and notation on top of each other, incorporate piano-roll(?!), and maybe even more. 