Duckbar will take care of this. :)
..but before that I have to finish the very special "even more gray" (and thus more professional) theme.
 
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I hope you enjoy using this.

Another +1 for the contrast change.
 
But I will say this is going to be my favorite new feature in Sonar Platinum.  Even more than the FX bin, I hated how it would only show you two  sends at a time, and you had to pay attention to the numbers on the sends if you scrolled down, to know which one you were working with.  This was LONG overdue, and if it were the only change made, I'd still pay for the upgrade.

denverdrummer
Another +1 for the contrast change.
 
But I will say this is going to be my favorite new feature in Sonar Platinum.  Even more than the FX bin, I hated how it would only show you two  sends at a time, and you had to pay attention to the numbers on the sends if you scrolled down, to know which one you were working with.  This was LONG overdue, and if it were the only change made, I'd still pay for the upgrade.

+1

I'm finding it near impossible to tell whether plugins in the PC fx modules (as well as the channel bin) are on or off. As soon as focus as shifted to anything else they all turn into ehat look like identical grey bars irrespective of status.

As for it being a monitor contrast issue, my screen is colour and contrast profiled for photographic and graphics work, and I'm not about to change that.

i like the contrast of the new tools bar short cut , this could be a start ...  or sends text back ground ....a color customsiation for that would be the greatest move

+1 on the difficulty of seeing if a plugin is on or off. Just exported a mix with Arc 2 turned on and thought the final file sounded too good. :) Went back in and found Arc was on, but it is hard to tell.

smallstonefan
+1 on the difficulty of seeing if a plugin is on or off. Just exported a mix with Arc 2 turned on and thought the final file sounded too good. :) Went back in and found Arc was on, but it is hard to tell.

do a send from your master to an ARC'ed bus .. feeding your monitors ...bounce the master (master out is your heaphones) or vice versa (master out ARC bus, send = headphones)

tlw
I'm finding it near impossible to tell whether plugins in the PC fx modules (as well as the channel bin) are on or off. As soon as focus as shifted to anything else they all turn into ehat look like identical grey bars irrespective of status.

As for it being a monitor contrast issue, my screen is colour and contrast profiled for photographic and graphics work, and I'm not about to change that.

Agreed, the contrast is too minimal as is.  I can live with it, but look forward to a revision to make it more intuitive.

Another +1 for doing something about the contrast.  I have a high colour gamut 30" pro monitor, and I still have to do a double-take to determine if they are on or off.  This needs improvement!

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I really don't like the big clunky buttons. They just add to the confusion for me.
The new way makes it hard to see the mono/stereo 32/64bit dots as well.