Part 1
http://www.digitalprosound.com/2001/06_jun/reviews/sonar.htm
 
Part 2
http://www.digitalprosound.com/2001/06_jun/reviews/sonar2.htm
 
Part 3
http://www.digitalprosound.com/2001/06_jun/reviews/sonar3.htm
 
Part 4
http://www.digitalprosound.com/2001/06_jun/reviews/sonar4.htm
 
 

Nice, Sonar Theme colours are very nice and bright.

Ironically you could have showed the Score view and you woudln't know the difference!  Lol...
 
 
A retro theme....   now that would be a challenge!!
 

holy bring back the memory's !  looks like pro audio 9.0
I spent many days in front of this GUI learning how to use this software.
the black background with light green lettering for the now time.

And a 'screaming' computer to run it all on!!
Conclusions
Using a PIII 700 with 256M Ram and a 7,200 RPM ATA66 hard drive, I recorded 20 to 30 audio tracks in Sonar and added some effects.

I don't recall if it was during that time or before, but audio interfaces were unheard of (or prohibitively expensive as part of a "recording system").
 
I vaguely remember having a Turtle Beach Fiji (or was it Tahiti?) sound card.

Elffin
Ironically you could have showed the Score view and you woudln't know the difference!  Lol...
 
A retro theme....   now that would be a challenge!!

 Pretty much!  Except note durations!!

I still have 8.5 installed on an old XP laptop and the first thing I notice when I open is how bright a cheery it looks compared to the new versions.. If I every have time to play with this new theme editor I'm certainly going to lighten things up a bit. I love the 2 default choices,, dark and darker..

Cactus Music
I love the 2 default choices,, dark and darker..

Not Any More
Scroll down for the user created themes.