Robert,
you are kidding right?
No volumes or pans...? Not going to even go there. Those are only your "personal preferences".

Just to give you an example, Big Boys at Kontakt, Halion, SampleTank and pretty much every other software VSTs have volumes and pans. I think they know better what great thousands of their customers (me included) will want.

About "*" button, was just something to occupy the space. Obviously, this is just a drawing. I actually would like to see user defined "custom" buttons there.

In my little fun drawing, I did think about expand/collapse
of the mixer and/or chord sheet (thin bar between mixer and chords with arrows) This can also be moved up to top smile

P.S. I will not touch the plugin before volumes/meters and pans are added. You on the other hand can simply "ignore" them if they are ever implemented. And if they will bother you, one way is to request a completely "modular" interface so you can hide/un-hide anything you want. We had this discussion before about "modular" approach smile