Thanks for this suggestion. It's not just on our list: it's also partially in the code... the ticks are actually drawn for each control. This doesn't actually help you as a user, but it should serve as a positive note on the road to this suggestion actually getting implemented.
Relevant to this, but NOT the same thing, of course (but related):
http://mididesigner.com/namedticks/
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