i don't want to sound critical of sonar, im just simply asking why when i click on the menu, sonar shows a very dated pixel art looking interface. is this going to be phased out overtime to match the beautiful vector interface on the main gui? or are these hard coded into the interface and can't be removed.

OK, I'll bite.
What are you looking at?

I think this is a feature request. I for one would like to see the menu's revised, put in a slightly more logical order, and made beautiful esp for touch screen users (desktop users should be able to be use it perfectly as well). Think Quadcurve in terms of pretty. Think Sonitus in terms of usability. Pretty and usability come hand in hand otherwise it's a #fail.

Also pretty = sales (sad to say) as Native Instruments well know.

Good god no. There's an OS-wide standard for menu form and function. A special Sonar-only menu system would be both a colossal waste of development time, and inevitably less complete and easy to use than the standardised Windows one.

No... just, no.

There are quite a few things I would prefer to see dev time spent.  I've never thought that a GUI needs to look like Optimus Prime's taint to be useful.

John T
Good god no. There's an OS-wide standard for menu form and function. A special Sonar-only menu system would be both a colossal waste of development time, and inevitably less complete and easy to use than the standardised Windows one.

To quote Douglas Adams: "There are some who say that this has already happened."

Besides, you don't stay on a menu item. You select an item, then the menu goes away and crawls back into its hole.

Not a fan of customised menus - just becomes more brain drain as you switch between programs trying to remember the specifics of each one. Often becomes design for designs sake.

John T
Good god no. There's an OS-wide standard for menu form and function. A special Sonar-only menu system would be both a colossal waste of development time, and inevitably less complete and easy to use than the standardised Windows one.

What John T said.