Ben, can we get more visible sends in the console view?
Please :-)

Edit: Btw, thanks for the colorthing! I love it!

John
Ben it is so good to see you. I had no idea you were behind my favorite features in Sonar. Thank you Ben. 

What John said.  Thanks and so good to hear from you!

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
I'd like to think that Ben has done way more innovative things working for Cakewalk than the small hacks he did working on his SONAR mods. You don't have the details of all the things he's worked on here. The flyout EQ, prochannel fxchains, and all the custom color stuff in X3 are only a few of his contributions.
We hired Ben because besides his passion for the software he is a very talented developer. I'm sure he will agree that being paid to work on actual in depth features for our users beats making hacks to the app :)
 

Thanks Noel...

I'm really glad for all of us... Both Ben and Panu seem to care a great deal and have the talents to be useful. I believe that Ben must feel much better having direct access to the code and I'm not surprised to hear of his creations... Many kudos to him... And you and the rest of the Bakers who continue to develop this great tool!

For Panu? I hope that there is some mutually engaging future between Cake and Panu... One that works for both! It may even be leaving it as is for that is what forces the designer to think differently... But I just wish it to be good for both of "you"...

My humble thanks to Panu... Ben... You... The Bakers... And even my fellow Sonar users who all contribute to this ongoing music experience!

Keni

Jimbo 88
I think Gibson deserves some credit.

I'm optimistic that the move to Gibson will turn out well in the long run. But from everything I've read about the state of the relationship between Cakewalk and Gibson to this point, I think all credit for the success of the X3 release and subsequent updates has to go to the core Cakewalk clan.

I just want color customization back. This fifty shades of grey thing sucks. I can't do anything in X3 except finalize mixes. Editing, impossible. Recording, why record in X3 if you can't edit in X3?
 
Again, I know NOTHING about programming but it seems to me that if Panu could make X1 and 2 usable, there has to be a way to give us color options. Don't forget, I said "I know nothing about programming". So don't get mad at me and accuse me of saying something I did not.

>> I just want color customization back. This fifty shades of grey thing sucks.
>> I can't do anything in X3 except finalize mixes. Editing, impossible.
>> Recording, why record in X3 if you can't edit in X3?
 
I don't think the problem lies with X3.

stickman393
>> I just want color customization back. This fifty shades of grey thing sucks.
>> I can't do anything in X3 except finalize mixes. Editing, impossible.
>> Recording, why record in X3 if you can't edit in X3?
 
I don't think the problem lies with X3.

Some of it doesn't....a few of our users have SERIOUS vision issues which make the lack of complete colorization a nightmare in certain situations. Let's just say that the limitations we DO have right now CAN make it really tough on others.
 
Heck, all I need for colors is this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4909348/SonarDD.JPG
 
And would love it to be possible without it changing my clip colors. That's really my only issue right now. I hate bright grey and don't like that we can't make our console colors dark like what you see. AND...every change we make to a console channel or track in track edit changes the inside colors of the clips. I have a killer clip scheme that I love with fluorescent colors that never stays in tact when I change a track color.
 
But I think we are making progress within Sonar itself. At least we have something where we had nothing before. :)
 
-Danny

Few pieces of software recognize the needs of people with visual problems. From what I understand, Sonar was (is?) often used by the blind because of compatibility with a text-to-speech program, but that's different.
 
I consulted on a project once where the user interface was impossible to use if the user was color-blind. It had never even occurred to the company. Those of us who are fortunate enough to have our vision and hearing intact often don't consider what it's like not to have those faculties in full.
 
There are aspects of Sonar that could definitely be improved in terms of legibility with the tradeoff being more apparent visual clutter on the screen because more elements would be easily visible, and thus compete for your attention.

But regarding the OP...yes X3e is looking good, and Gibson does indeed care