Any chance we'll get different interface choices?

I'm partial to Samplitude's Pro X2 GUI. The only problem is I like Sonar better. 

John
I'm partial to Samplitude's Pro X2 GUI. The only problem is I like Sonar better. 

I'm totally with you on the first part of your post .
 
Kenny

Well.... here is an alternative viewpoint. I was using a different software that had a dark interface and I had a hard time seeing it well.  The trend for a lot of software companies is a darker interface, and I don't care for this trend.
 
I switched to Sonar primarily for the brighter interface, especially in the console view. Since then I've discovered the many other things Sonar offers, and I'm very glad I made the switch.

I find current Sonar interface clear and non distracting. Although having skinning options wouldn't hurt.

mudgel
Use sonar mods by Panup.

Http://www.Sonarmods.com

+1 to Sonarmods by Panu!

Anderton
With SONAR and quite a few other programs in this era of "gray is good," I bump up the monitor's brightness and contrast. It can make a huge difference (especially on the Mac, but that's a different world). On a lot of the screen shots I do to illustrate my posts and articles, I increase brightness and contrast in the graphics program. 

Maybe it could be a sort of workaround or enhancement, if one uses Sonar most amount of time. But it is a sign of huge problems.

uhh yeah, the channel strips / tracks... are quite boring with no texture and a very sad light grey color
It is "not impossible" to make a nice colorful and textur'ish channel strip and track's in sonar..

[EDIT] Maybe some idea from all those colorful mixing desk's here, may help out ... 

VariousArtist
Contrast pleeeeeeeez.

Yepp, and colors too XD ... + texture and design.

Here's a nice one :




Maybe like this :

Soundblend
uhh yeah, the channel strips / tracks... are quite boring with no texture and a very sad light grey color
It is "not impossible" to make a nice colorful and textur'ish channel strip and track's in sonar... 

You mean like this ?
 

I have made unofficial 3rd party interface graphics for SONAR but making graphical textures in Console View is no more possible in SONAR2015. If anyone at Cakewalk graphics design HQ is reading this, please use textured backgrounds for strips so that we can customize them and let us adjust the gray color in strips to get more contrast.
 
I know that Cakewalk is not a big company and it has to think twice how to use limited resources. That said, lack of colors is an issue for _many_ users. I know that by looking at the mod download statistics.  Remember when X1 came out and I made the first Skylight interface mods? Thread about mods had read count I have never seen in any other subject at SONAR forums ever. Gray may be the general interface color nowadays. All Adobe interfaces are very gray, too, but in Adobe programs there's enough contrast between foreground and background color. In SONAR I often have to GUESS if for example FX bin plugin is enabled or not - color difference is so marginal.
 
Good news is that in some parts of the interface there is now more contrast than in X3. For example Control Bar background is a little tiny bit darker than before. Also the redesigned Audiosnap window is a nice facelift.

I'd be happy enough if they allowed us to choose a default per-track background clip color, like we used to be able to I think X2 and earlier. It's ridiculous that you have to set clip background colors manually, and the foreground (data) colors aren't nearly prominent enough for me to be any kind of useful visual feedback. I'm way too lazy to set background colors on a per-clip basis and as a result all of my projects have that same dark grey background for every clip. It's kind of embarrassing when you look at the clips pane for every other DAW and they have these wonderfully color coded clips. I've yet to hear anyone at Cake justify or explain why they took this option away, it's just baffling and has severely eroded the visual look of Sonar. 

Another thumb up for Panu and Sonarmods.

maximumpower
I don't know about the rest of what you are asking but if I select multiple tracks, hold ctrl and then select track color, all selected tracks change.

Thank you, it helps!
 
But why it doesn't work for folders? There is bug obviously.
And it is also interface issue that if you don't know exactly, you have to guess would some feature work for all selected items, or you should hold Ctrl, or Ctrl+Shift, or something else, or it would not work in any case.
Anyway don't know how to use track colors without clip auto-colors.

A few people have mentioned their eyes get fatigued.
 
I used to have problems with 'tired eyes' when using the PC  (Not just Sonar - everything caused sore eyes after a while).
 
One day my graphics card died and I ended up buying a different brand of card cause it was on special at the time.
It was a nice surprise to discover I could use the PC all day now without getting fatigued eyes.
 
Same displays and work space/lighting etc - Something about the new card made all the difference.