Hire Panu to make themes.


End of issue.

My initial impressions are that I like it.   
 
I also like that I can go back to the old color scheme if I wanted to.

Dave000
This is how I see the meter default.

 Though I sit at least 5 feet away...
Carry on...

My meters are green

Dave000

rlared

Dave000
Really? Maybe the bakers should consider getting an artist who understands pallets! It's apparent to me that a programmer is trying to get SpLat to look good...  Yea! That's NOT going to work! Orange and black... Halloween!?  
and nothing else looks right together... lol
Maybe you should start over with a basic UI in black, white and levels for grey as the default then the user can chose a base color/s to fill in the greys. Cakewalk, you want the best!? it needs to look the best and the person you have messing it up now cannot get it done! YOU NEED an ARTIST!
   

I can't believe there are 2 pages of follow-up comments legitimizing this post. . . 

Everyone has that need to bash the TROLL.... even you.  lol

I wouldn't go so far as to say it's a troll post... but I wouldn't go so far as to say it's not a troll post either

I'm actually enjoying Mercury now that we have an extended choice of colors.
 
I really like Tungsten, but will be glad to have some ability to tweak colors for contrast.  I'm allergic to orange too, but it has grown on me a bit.
 
All things considered, I think this is a huge move in the correct direction.

 
How about a multi-colored console theme 
 
 

Dave000
Really? Maybe the bakers should consider getting an artist who understands pallets! It's apparent to me that a programmer is trying to get SpLat to look good...  Yea! That's NOT going to work! Orange and black... Halloween!?  
and nothing else looks right together... lol
Maybe you should start over with a basic UI in black, white and levels for grey as the default then the user can chose a base color/s to fill in the greys. Cakewalk, you want the best!? it needs to look the best and the person you have messing it up now cannot get it done! YOU NEED an ARTIST!
   

All this by someone who has the ugliest avatar you can imagine.
I like the new theme very much.

His avatar is good in its own way. Its better to move ahead with constuctive posts.  My meters are green too. Why do some users have grey meters. Is there an option to change that. I love the green meters though. Would never want to change it. But just wondering why some have it grey.

Dave000

The Grim
i don't think and wouldn't say it looks like crap, i wasn't sure about some of the color choices myself, but hey, i still think it looks quite good. it reminds me very much of a couple of reaper custom themes. the only time people will ever be 100% pleased by something is when they have the ability to change the bits they don't like to be how they want them. if you are like me and couldn't really be bothered nor have the desire to be learning to do that and would prefer to be playing and recording you take what you get, get use to it and carry on. sonar isn't even my main daw and i don't use it much any longer, but i do think the lifetime membership is pretty awesome (i jumped on that straight away), and this latest release seems pretty good (although i haven't installed the final official yet, just the early release), the first time i have updated since manchester. i still stay with my other daw and keep an eye on sonar, after all in for life now with no added extra cost (extras excluded)

Hey, yea just let me work! but when I booted 2016. 5... man what I see was mush... I reset the meters myself and that fine, and I will fish though the weeds and be happy creating! :) so that makes me happy. but sometime CW needs to know what people other then the peanut gallery things... BTW, I have been really happy with lots of stuff coming out... :) but I don't normally waste my days here telling the world... CW is so close now to perfection in my view for my needs that, I want to push at them and poke them to get the UI to ROCK! as I am just hanging at home, multi tasking on here and with other stuff... more just for fun then anything... got a busy few weeks of nothing going on but fun! and it started here! lol

Ok- I for one am tired of this. What is with the "Just what the peanut gallery likes," who the hell are you?  we are the customer base-can you SEE that? ego much....Please don't respond...

Dave000

The Grim
i don't think and wouldn't say it looks like crap, i wasn't sure about some of the color choices myself, but hey, i still think it looks quite good. it reminds me very much of a couple of reaper custom themes. the only time people will ever be 100% pleased by something is when they have the ability to change the bits they don't like to be how they want them. if you are like me and couldn't really be bothered nor have the desire to be learning to do that and would prefer to be playing and recording you take what you get, get use to it and carry on. sonar isn't even my main daw and i don't use it much any longer, but i do think the lifetime membership is pretty awesome (i jumped on that straight away), and this latest release seems pretty good (although i haven't installed the final official yet, just the early release), the first time i have updated since manchester. i still stay with my other daw and keep an eye on sonar, after all in for life now with no added extra cost (extras excluded)

Hey, yea just let me work! but when I booted 2016. 5... man what I see was mush... I reset the meters myself and that fine, and I will fish though the weeds and be happy creating! :) so that makes me happy. but sometime CW needs to know what people other then the peanut gallery things... BTW, I have been really happy with lots of stuff coming out... :) but I don't normally waste my days here telling the world... CW is so close now to perfection in my view for my needs that, I want to push at them and poke them to get the UI to ROCK! as I am just hanging at home, multi tasking on here and with other stuff... more just for fun then anything... got a busy few weeks of nothing going on but fun! and it started here! lol

Sorry you didn't like it. From what I have seen, most of the comments have been positive. Colors are always subjective. I don't think we can definitively say, for a fact, that one color is better than another because all you need is one person to say it's not true. Good news is you aren't forced to use it and soon enough you can make your own. Definitely looking forward to seeing what you come up with for themes.