TranceCanada
 
I do have this Aqua style one, or do you mean a different hue?
 

 
I like that one!!

John its the same Ben that was a forum user and got a job with  Cakewalk. Is that correct Ben??? Maybe I'm losing it ???

It isn't important Fitzj. Just I don't recall the name. Still I am very happy we have another staff with us. 

John
Ben I'm not sure i know you. However it is very good to have you on board and welcome to the forum. 
Fantastic stuff coming our way. 

Thanks John! I've been around for a while, but haven't been particularly active on the forum lately (which might explain why my name isn't familiar to you).
 
Some background if you're interested...
 
As a long term Cakewalk user and pro software developer, I wrote a utility called SONAR Plus back in 2010, which went down pretty well on the forums. Cakewalk noticed, so I started contracting for them in 2011, and went full time the following year.
 
Since then, I worked on SONAR for the most part, until things went south last November. Fortunately, Meng was kind enough to offer me a position at BandLab, so here I am!
 
I wrote the original Theme Editor, and spent some time updating it for CbB recently - hence my posts here today. :)

I think you did a great job with theme editor. When I created a whole new Control bar, instead of modifying the colours, it gave me a massive appreciation for how much the application had to cover.  I learnt a few tricks along the way, and this was something I new little about when I started. I've mentioned before that I think the App is 98% there. And to have done that in the first release is impressive.  There is so much making up a theme, and to make an app that captures all those attributes is seems a mission to me.
 
I didn't know that you had developed it. I had wrongly thought it has been a 3rd party and long suspected that as that had been seen as completed, we would get n further developments. After a week creating this, and hit a few small hurdles that put me off doing another in a different stye, but I as got a bug fr it and really fancy anther go. So you have given me some optimism.
 
I always get the impression users think it just changes colurs, but it capable of much more.
 

 
 

That looks good kami!!

Thanks. I wanted to try a brushed metal effect, and go for a realistic (what's that wprd again Sharke?) look. Someone else was doing an Ableton style, that was popular, but I don't know if it got finished.
 
I definitely get it why it's s hard the developer to create a GUI to keep everyone happy, but there is so much potential for users to do it. I had hoped for a separate to discuss ideas, share ides and resources. It would be great if BandLAb provided all the icons as a library. Removing button backgrounds, was a bit labourious. Being able t copy whole folders from one theme editor to another would be great too. Helping mix mix and match themes. Element by element is slow and I'm a bit clumsy.

I always wanted to revisit Theme Editor, which has been stuck at v1 for too long.
 
TranceCanada, Kamikaze, and others, have inspired me to make time for it. I can't promise anything (there's so much going on at the moment), but I hope to make some small, but significant improvements over the coming months. Keep an eye on the release notes in upcoming releases.

Agree with Kami on this. I tried the theme editor when it first came out, but my lack of graphic experience made it very frustrating for me, so I gave up and waited for others to come up with something I liked and then I would edit that. But even that approach had me bogged down. 
 
And like Kami says, it's really hard to please everyone. There is no theme that I like totally. So if I could work on my own theme that would be the ideal thing.
 
Good luck Ben. Keep us informed. 

Good to hear from you again Ben
 
Are you still UK based?