New UI for markers?

[The Institute]

The big advantages, and they're huge advantages, of a DAW style automation system (like what Lopyt posted in the screenshots) is that it's very fast to add automation to a track (it would probably be ten times faster than it is now), and it's very easy to see what you've done, because the progress of your automation is displayed visually over your track.

That said, the difference between a DAW and OS is that in a DAW, you have dedicated tracks to each instrument or sound. OS puts all the instruments in the same display. That's not an unsolvable problem - to choose what automation to display, maybe you'd keep the instrument dropdown, and add another dropdown with all of the automation options (high EQ, mid EQ, etc), and the two choices there would determine which automation appears on screen. You'd also need to be able to toggle between automation editing and note editing, because the interface otherwise wouldn't know what you're trying to edit. And there'd need to be a 'Master' option in the instrument dropdown so you could edit automation of BPM and overall sequence volume.

So I'm in favour of the idea (I'll vote yes), but I think it might take a lot of work to implement.