BrFrBob
The strip colors suit me perfectly.  I can still group my instruments by color without changing to overall flow of the console.  I'm like the Count from Sesame Street.  I scan the console and stop - "One, two, three...three blue strips.  Ahh, ahh, ahh".  This may actually save my sanity, if it isn't too late already.

 same here.
you know I have most/if not all my tracks grouped together so its not like I need to have them all lit up.
totally engulfed in color groups. with a good track lay out the color strip works fine for me / along with the Track Icons and Track Names as well. I think I can locate my tracks easy enough. would like the option to have them all color..sure. 
but its not a show stopper by any means and most certainly not "Useless".

Love it! The track colors do get lost though. It would be great to see the color made more prominent, like this:
 

smallstonefan
Love it! The track colors do get lost though. It would be great to see the color made more prominent, like this:
 

that's a great idea.

I am not looking for negatives and I am not complaining at all. As I wrote, I like the new theme a lot.
 
I just want to point out that one of the features is somewhat crippled.
 
I wouldn't want to go back to full coloured strips either as that would spoil the now very clean look of the console.
 
Just adding colour to the volume, pan and gain pots would do the trick. Here is my Microsoft Paint effort :)
 

 
 

You could use colored tape to color the tracks. It would be a mess to clean up after mixing though.
  
 

Gregmang
Looks nice but I'll stick with Panu's Darkside using Duckbar :)


However it is nice to see the Bakers spending some time on this....

Me too. :)
Good news for Dark Side users is that I can soon tweak it further and edit items that were only possible in X1-X3, for example empty multidock colors, Control Bar text colors, scroll bar colors etc.

IMO, selected clips don't show the MIDI data as well, contrast is off, to me. I'm going to see if I can tweak this. it's the only criticism I have so far of the new theme, which mostly I like.

The console looks much better to me. I'm sure there will be other themes as time goes by. Nice job Cakewalk.

Like the dark theme a lot .
Thanks ,cakewalk 

I for one like the Dark Theme.