Just like you I have been imagining my ideal HOG and even did a drawing of it in my own childish scribble.
https://i.postimg.cc/RhFzSSYW/IMG-2527.jpg

Here I imagined it in the same size and topography as the Oceans 12 and Grand Canyon. And I called it HOG12 as it has 12 voices. Because the sliders take up so much space and are bad for presets, I had the values represented on LED strips or rows of lights under the pitch select button. So rather than one light and a description as in the Oceans 12 it’s a short description and a series of lights. Then if say the volume is represented by yellow lights then the panning of the pitch could be represented by single red light somewhere along the line. With that, selecting a preset will visually show the pitches and panning.

The other function I included cover the existing expression, filter, attack and decay as the current HOG but adding to that a lot of the functionality of the Superego +. So we have the ability to select auto, momentary or latching on the freeze foot switch as well as having control over threshold and gliss.

The other bit I added in was to have the ability to select either a major or minor key to expand the pitch selection a bit more.

I love the idea of a sequencer or at least assignable delay to each pitch.

I’m very excited to see what ehx come up with, however I feel like I could be easily disappointed now. I’m glad others are into this pedal so an update may be on the way soon.