Kamikaze
I don;t know where the default themes are kept, or of they are available. 

 
I don't think they're accessible, the default UI is in a file called TTSImage.dll, and the user themes override it.
 

It was just a guess on my part. I shud reelly keep outa this whole thing till I get Splat.

Kamikaze
Noel has confirmed that another theme is in the pipeline. And that it's going to be a light theme. He' has said it's not going to be soon though. 

Super interesting. I do hope it's sooner rather than later.
 
Thanks for the tip. ::thumbs up::

Anderton

puffer
Since I have no edit button there's no way to open and install themes. There's a /SONAR Themes/ folder in my /Cakewalk Content/ folder. but alas copying Craig's "Mercury with White Control Bar.sth" does nothing.

 
I don't have Professional or Artist, but if you can use other themes, and if it works the same way as Platinum, since you copied the "Mercury with White Control Bar" into the SONAR Themes folder, check if the theme appears in the Theme: drop-down menu. You don't need the Edit button to open Themes, it's for opening Themes directly within the Theme Editor, which is Platinum only.
 

Perhaps it was the most recent update, or perhaps I had done it wrong initially, but I put your white control bar theme in /Cakewalk Content/Themes/ and lo it showed up in the Preferences | Theme menu.
 
So, thanks, Craig.
 
& Thanks Cake, for making themes available to all of us, even if we don't want to design them.
 
 

puffer
 
So, thanks, Craig.

No problem...there's more to come from me, theme-wise.

I like a lighter look myself. I've found that you can lighten things up and all looks good until you touch something and then it goes to very dark (track lanes), and you can't really see what you're editing, or it's bright white. Haven't figured out how to fix that. I'm just real tired of fixing DAWs.
 
It does sort of seem like this is a business strategy of Cakewalk's. Break something, then dole out crippled fixes that you have to pay for. Actually, they've done this same color dance in the past. Don't remember which version, but we've been down this road before.
Here's a lighter one I was screwing around with. 

 
 
 

timidi 
It does sort of seem like this is a business strategy of Cakewalk's. Break something, then dole out crippled fixes that you have to pay for.

 
It seems more like the business strategy is to remove something, then replace it later with something better. The Theme Editor offers a lot more flexibility than the colorizing options in SONAR 8.5.
 
But I do think we need to give props to Panup, not so much because he came up with a solution (which of course was welcome), but because the interest in what he was doing showed that people really did want to be able to customize their interface.
 
When Themania dies down, I suspect a lot of people are going to be using Mercury or Tungsten with just a few tweaks. However it's good to be able to make those tweaks. Creating a complete theme is not for the faint of heart. I've gone off in several different directions just to play with the Theme Editor, but ultimately, I've ended up with only one theme that I feel has real potential for completion, and could be genuinely useful alternative to Mercury or Tungsten.