Themes VS Colour

headache here , i choose the tungsten theme ; changed my VU color , not working  !!
 
interaction is a mess imho

Need some help figuring out how to change the text and or background color of the Notes/Velocity button, located above the vertical piano in the Piano Roll View. For some reason, is does not follow other tabs/menu text color and seems to be using a color scheme of its own. Even when using the color picker, the Theme Editor doesn't seem to recognize it.  Would appreciate any feedback you guys can provide.
Thanks!!!!

I've edited colors of all fonts and drop down menu buttons where available, in both Sonar Preferences and the Theme Editor. That changed colors all over the GUI, except fot that damn button...!  
 
In Tungsten, the font for this specific button is white (or light grey) like for all other menus.   
My theme was created from Tungsten, but it displays black font on dark grey button, which is barely visible. 
Every other font color matches what's used in Tungsten........

yeah, did that too.
 
 
****EDIT: Finally found it after trial and error . The button was under the Loop Construction View in the editor.

No both themes should be available. Press P (Preferences), the choose Themes and you have a choice of 2

Well said Jerry. Couldn't agree more about the convoluted mess that is Sonar colors. I finally broke down and bought splat based on the "upcoming color fixes". I guess I should have waited. But, I've been waiting since 8.5. I bought X1 and X2 and have never really used them. I just stay on 8.5 to get work done. I'm starting to get the feeling that Splat will go in the trash heap along with x1 and 2. They should brand the theme editor as "Smart Colors" as it's about as intelligent as the Smart Tool.

What happens if you edit the font colors again?

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What happens if you edit the font colors again?

I'm done spending my time jumping between screens trying to make sence of a pattern of behavior. When I opened yesterday morning, My trak fonts were green (Theme option) and bus fonts were orange (colours option). Even though I reset everything to default and noticed my Transport slider bar was green. I thought 'was it always green?'. later it reverted to blue. Even Sonar is asking 'what colors should I be following now?'
 
Coloured strips are only available to mercury and these are the colours I care about. I'm going to be pissed when cakewalk finally drop these Which I fully expect, without explanation.

jsg

Kamikaze
Under preferences we have 2 ways to adjust colouring. A choice of two themes (in Themes), which can be edited further, and the colors options (In Colours). Do the interact, or do they work independently. I guessing they don't interact as changes made to 'Color' run across the chamge in 'themes'
 
How do you know when to make an edit in one or the other? Is there a clear line? 

The color options in Sonar are a convoluted mess, full of contradictions and inconsistencies, made even more complicated by the theme editor.  There's the old color options, most of which don't even work at all.  Then there is the left-screen color choices for tracks, clips and the console colors, which works in one theme but not another (weird!), and now there's the theme editor, which is a complex program in and of itself.
 
This is a music program, how much time does one really want to spend tweaking colors?  Should a DAW's color choices be this complicated?   No matter which theme or color scheme you choose, it won't improve music composition and it won't improve production quality.  I think priorities are important here.  I do wish CW would simplify and unify color options.  Most programs do have straightforward options for changing colors.  I personally think a theme editor is a distraction from making music and have no use for it, I'm already busy enough.
 
Jerry

I have to agree with some of that, Jerry. Though the bakers are trying to give us "something" I find it so confusing that I'm not even interested. I have to watch a video on how to edit the colors in SONAR? Doesn't that say something right there? I'm no reaper fan, but there's a DAW that makes it pretty easy.
 
All of the above said, I've been upset with cakewalk since hey removed our old  color options while making us wait until splat to get them back, only to have more of a cluster than we had before with colors. Not to mention one of the bakers making a comment about us making music instead of tweaking our DAW. I disagree with that, and no one should make that decision for us.
 
Unlike some of the hobby guys around here, I'm stuck looking at my DAW 14+ hours. I would like to enjoy what I see. For others with vision problems, they left sonar because of how poorly the colors were handled. For some of us, it's super important to have color control. Not to sound strange, but I personally would have given up any option we have today for proper color editing going back to X1. It's that important to me. 
 
But, it is what it is. I've tried to use theme editor 5 times without reading anything. My trial and error tells me it way too complicated than it needs to be. I've beta tested for several companies like fractal audio, bfd drums and many others without touching a manual at first, other than when I really needed do get deep with something. Though our theme editor is advanced and someone put a load of time into it, it's way more complex than if needs to be in my opinion. Until I have the time to learn it, I'm using some of the themes created by others.
 
-Danny