FX Stacks Improvement

Agree - it's certainly not bad at the moment, but could be clearer.
 

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Yes. Greater contrast would let you get the information at a glance instead of at a concentrated stare.

Change effects color: please git rid of this insane light gray on lighter gray.
 
I cannot read the disabled effects' labels.  WHY?????  Why should it not be WAY easy to quickly know what is what?
 
And then enabled effects' buttons are BLACK ON GREY?  Oh, how clever.
 
Way cool looking but not very effective nor efficient.
 
This is another example of having to compensate for the user interface's lack of clarity.
 
Make the disabled effects labels be BLACK on LIGHT GRAY. So they can be read easily.
 
The enabled effect's button background should default to light green. And be user definable.
 
 
 
 
 
 

dcumpian
I guess there are two version of this request. On the other one, I wrote that the FX Stack buttons should use the same lit/unlit buttons as the control bar. Unifying the Skylight experience.
 
Regards,
Dan
 

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+0.8. The more I use the Platinum, the more obvious the difference becomes but it shouldn't be necessary to acclimate over time to the change.

Further proposition: Bypassing VST3 plugins (using global plugin bypass in VST3 plug) should be recognizable by Sonar ... hence, it think these plugs should also be coloured like/similar to other bypassed plugins (i.e. like the ones turned off in the FX bin) ...
 
I have had occasions when I had double-clicked a plug and found the VST3 bypass engaged but could not remember that I actually clicked it  ... while this might just be pilot error from fatigue or an ugly occasional bug which I could never prove, simply showing the plug as disabled in the console view would have made that visible immediately
 

I'll agree with this. I've often had to toggle an effect just to make sure it was on. Generally the greyness of Sonar is terrible, Just load up 8.5 or Cubase and it very refreshing to see some colour. 

Yeah, it's far too subtle a difference, visually. I like the neatness of hiding the on / off button unless you hover over it, but that means something else has to do the visual job of the on / off button, and that's the bit they missed.

I generally like the clean sobriety of the UI design, myself, but I think there are a few places where they've valued aesthetics over function, and I'd like to see some of that tightened up a bit.

I agree with all the responses here. 

Yep I'd like this. My eyes aren't getting any younger and I'm starting to have to really strain to use Sonar.

I've been thinking this exact same thing for awhile now just never posted anyting about it! glad i wasnt the only one who noticed its somewhat hard to tell on the fly. I've had to click the bypass on and off before just to be sure.

PilotGav
I find it almost impossible to determine when a plugin is enabled or disabled in the effects bin. I'm not the dumbest guy on the planet yet for the life of me I can't figure out what the logic is - when does it turn blue, when light blue, when grey and when light grey?
 
Please change the FX bin appearance in general so that it looks more professional and that it's obvious what state the plugin is in.

I was thinking it would be cool to color code them like you can do to tracks. Pick an on and off color.