Has the Sonar X-1 (X2) Color scheme gone corporate ?

Seems there are a lot of threads with desires of wanting the possibilities of Sonar's custom color schemes to be updated.
People want to change the colors to suit their moods I guess ? Or maybe they want to create visual aids to do their work more efficiently ?
 
I've noticed this trend in many new updates to softwares that I use:  Autocad, Adobe, to mention a few . . . that have this "corporate grey" look.
The fonts are grey, the backgrounds are grey. It's a minimalistic approach, like watching a new movie in black and white.
 
Sonar X2 literature / marketing doesn't mention that colors are going to change, so is it here to stay ?
Maybe the corporates have decided for us that their look is more fitting for a serious software, less like a toy.
 
Don't get me wrong, I like the new "lack of color scheme" for it's simplicity  . . . but sometimes, late on a Friday night, I want to add a little color
to my life in Sonar . . . and it's just not there.
 
maybe X3
 

noynekker


Sonar X2 literature / marketing doesn't mention that colors are going to change, so is it here to stay ?
Maybe the corporates have decided for us that their look is more fitting for a serious software, less like a toy.
 
maybe X3
 

It's not that X1/X2 are incapable of color customization, it's just that compared to 8.5 there are less elements that can be customized. Now, if you search out panup he has addons (sonarmods.co  IIRC) that may float your boat..... but until X2 comes out, it's hard to say if his X1 mods will port over painlessly.

noynekker


WAY less color elements can be customized in X1 than 8.5, why ain't Panu on the payroll yet ?

Because he "patches" and prolly CW does not want their programming resources to be drained by what they perceive as a non-issue.

bapu

noynekker


WAY less color elements can be customized in X1 than 8.5, why ain't Panu on the payroll yet ?

Because he "patches" and prolly CW does not want their programming resources to be drained by what they perceive as a non-issue.

Hmm... Ben was 'patching' (more or less) and then they *hired* him (so I've heard anyway). Not sure if the theory stands up... still, it's a bit of a mystery. 

I personally used some of Panup's mods for a while and then after a couple of updates I kind of didn't bother patching again as I was in the middle of something, and I found that I didn't mind the colours so much.  Yes it's a bit 'boring' and grey but it's very functional and at the risk of fulfilling their logic I find I am spending more time making music and less time tweaking. So I'm going to wait and see how X2 looks and if it isn't blatantly offensive to me I figure I'll stay the course and focus on the sounds. 

I believe this trend toward grey started with Sonar and some other DAWs trying to emulate the Nuendo look, which started the whole corporate grey interface to begin with.

I did not care much about colors before X1.
In X1, Cakewalk removed colors of some buttons in such way that I could not anymore know if it was pressed down or not. Lack of contrast and colors slowed down my work and caused frustration so much that I began to look for solutions. Now I'm happy again and more productive than ever.
For me it was a good thing Cakewalk removed colors because it gave me inspiration to learn .NET programming. 1.5 years ago I could not write a Windows program to say "Hello world" but now making Win32 API calls is as natural as making a phone call for my GF. ;-)

another color scheme thread....yay..


sigh.

+100 for Sonar Mods by Panu. I got so used to using them, that after I did a recent re-install of X1, I was going through total withdrawl without Sonar Mods. Panu was kind enough to help me sort some other X1 installation issues as well.

Can't say enough about these mods. Bravo!!