Hello All,
 
I am enjoying Sonar Platinum and I really have not found any problems with SPLAT until today. 
 
When I enter a Plugin into the FX bin in the Console View, it immediately turns bright blue (which is good) I can tell the FX is on. However, when I click another track or enter a plugin on another track elsewhere, the plugin turns grey and  I can't remember if it's on of off, especially when I came back to the project after a few days.
 
Some plugins appear light grey and some appear dark grey in the FX bin.  It appears tht the light grey plugins in the FX bin are the ones that are om while the dark grey one are the one I turned off. 
 
I believe that Cakewalk should have the color shown always when the plugin is on as it does when it's inserted into the FX bin, which is bright blue. 
 
Just my 2 cents. 
 

+1 from the blinder one.

bump
 

This has been reported in the Features and Ideas forum a few times but nothing gets done.  Sonar's lack of contrast in their color scheme is puzzling since some users are more colorblind than others.  Sonar, please pay attention to this idea.

+1, my eyesight is fine and I hate this as well.

Sort of baffled by it too, since in my limited programming days with C++ it was simple to alter the enabled/disabled colors called by an object.

Right I also have added my vote to having this fixed. I see no good reason for the blue to turn to gray in the way it does. I do understand they wanted to show the active plugin but this is the wrong way to do it.

It sure would be nice to hear from the Bakers on this matter.
 
  What say you Bakers, and where is my free Coffee Mug.. Please

On a somewhat related note, a few updates back they changed the behavior of the velocity bars in the piano roll view so that the color changes slightly depending on the velocity of the note. So, take a piano for example, you'll have a very light shade of whatever color the track is for the lowest velocity's sample, but as soon as you get to the next velocity that contains a new sample, the color of the bar will darken. This, in concept, is a wonderful idea since I wouldn't have to guess at what velocity I'll trigger a new sample, but the color change is so gradual that it's almost impossible to see the change unless it's between two velocities that are very far apart (like a velocity of 1 versus 128). I'd love it if Cakewalk could somehow make these changes either more drastic, such as actually switching to different colors entirely, or some other visual change that's easier to distinguish. 

Agree.  Change the color scheme action.

isn't GUI choices coming up in the 2016 updates?  I think they even made specific mention about it...or I got an email, etc.  Maybe it will include this item to have better contrast.