vertical objects/patching suggestion
...might be a cool suggestion for Max 8. Imagine you could rotate part of a patch 90 degrees.
It makes sense at least in some of my patches...this way you wouldn't need to route patch cords that often.
This feature was, some time ago, introduced in a little-known but interesting software called EyesWeb. Patching from-left-to-right (or vice versa) has actually a sense because displays becoming increasingly stretched horizontally...
But from my perspective - because Max has really nice methods for shaping coords - I'll be happy if I'll be able to rotate some gui objects (such as kslider), even without the ability to rotate fragments of the patch ;-)