This is all very hopeful sounding. Being a pretty poor excuse for a graphic designer myself (a few mediocre-at-best websites and CD covers) I am not likely to take on anything too ambitious, but I know there are people with skills and ideas well beyond my own that might cook up some fun stuff that the core team can't devote the resources to, so I'm looking forward to when the tools are made available!

"Because of God Complex"?!
 

Reckedtrek
"Because of God Complex"?!
 

I mean that few years ago somebody (or few peoples maybe) in Cakewalk decided that he is the god of software design, and that Cakewalk could make perfect product with minimum settings that would be better that somebody could imagine, and would suit everybody. They dropped PRV tools settings, many color settings, automation recording now automatically produce awful smoothing without any settings, windows docking possibilities are made strictly limited to somebody's vision, and so on, so on. Of course this concept could not succeed, because there are no gods on the earth. It is good that last 1.5 years Cakewalk slowly moves away from it. Just want it to be faster.

Cakewalk are not the only guys that use a nice orange-ish theme:-
 

synkrotron
Cakewalk are not the only guys that use a nice orange-ish theme:-
 

Note however those guys understood the importance of depth cues
 
When using depth cues you don't need to rely on high contrasting colors to clearly separate and identify controls. They do have all-flat themes for lower resolution tablets though. Of course on the phone you don't need it at all since you have like what, 11 controls or something.
 
Makes me wish I had an Android tablet instead of an iPad. While my initial impression of eyoControl was good, it turned out to be really buggy and basically unusable (pretty bad connectivity problems).

Here is my 2 cents on the new color scheme.
I am getting older and like a lot of people I have to stare at a monitor at work, too.
My time using Sonar in the last 6-8 months has drastically dropped mostly because of eye fatigue.
With the new look in Sonar, I can sit here working for hours on end and my eyes are no where near as tired as they would be in 45 minutes worth of time with the old way Sonar looked. I have only been using Sonar since X1, so not sure how it looked before that.
In short, the new look rocks, in my opinion. And of course my opinion and $5 will buy you a can of soda.

Duckbar owners fear not.


Just installed Dark Side 2015 theme and it replaced the default Mercury. So now I can change seamlessly between Tungsten and my favorite Panu Dark Side 2015 !!


Happy !!

Count me among those who like the Tungsten theme. First impression is that it is better for late-night sessions after a long day of open eyes.  Looking forward to seeing what other themes are in the works. 
 
Now, what I'd really love is the freedom in Sonar to makes actual letters and numbers bigger and more defined. 

BTW, it's not orange, it's gold. Says so right in the theme description so you all can stop complaining about it being orange
 
It reminds me of California's "golden hills", which is what they came up with to describe what the hills look like 95% of the year over here. No, it's not golden, it's dead!

I can be a little slow...wondering why that color choice...hot day on the east coast, and I break out my t-shirts...grab my cakewalk tee, DUH, colors are black and orange. I'm not sure if I'm completely sold on the colors, but the new theme helps out with these old eyes.