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  • How Many Are Using Custom Themes? (p.10)
2016/11/18 21:50:57
The Maillard Reaction

2016/11/18 23:22:57
...wicked
I'd love to see a gallery of these themes. The SONAR Start Screen would be a great medium for it.
 
2016/11/19 03:46:13
gmp
Where can I download the custom themes users have created?
2016/11/19 04:17:33
tenfoot
gmp
Where can I download the custom themes users have created?




http://forum.cakewalk.com/Sonar-Resources-and-Utilities-m3392713.aspx
 
2016/11/19 11:31:13
JohanSebatianGremlin
I'm still using the factory default theme. My time spent in the music room is already too limited for my taste. I'd rather spend that time working on music.
 
I like that users are able to upload their own themes and I think its great that we have folks who are willing to put time and effort into contributing their work. But I'm just not big on the look and feel of Fisher-Price style interfaces and most of what I've seen uploaded so far tend to move the needle toward that rather than away from it.
2016/11/19 12:03:28
Dave76
I don't use them.  Too much hassle without a lot of payoff in my experience.  
 
I would have preferred just having simpler tweakability of the built-in themes color schemes which seems to be what most of the 3rd party themes do anyway.  
 
2016/11/19 13:19:01
gmp
tenfoot
gmp
Where can I download the custom themes users have created?




http://forum.cakewalk.com/Sonar-Resources-and-Utilities-m3392713.aspx
 




Wow I'm impressed and surprised at the numerous themes. It'll take a good while to go through all of those for sure. What I'm really looking for is practicality not really beauty. At first I thought Tungsten was better than Mercury and it was in many ways, but I've gone back to Mercury, because overall I can see and find things easier with it.
 
Due to several incompatibilities I was not able to go from 8.5 to X1, X2, or X3 and it wasn't until Platinum when Noel fixed my issues that I went from 8.5 to Platinum. I've been using Platinum for 1.5 years now and I still miss the practicality of the 8.5 theme. If any still have 8.5 installed, you may want to look and see what I mean.  It was things like the pan slider was a different color than the volume slider, etc. etc. I could visually quickly find things easier than any version of X and Platinum.
 
 
So what I'm looking for is something that will make my workflow better. I liked Tungsten until I’d start trying to edit an audio waveform and zooming in, Mercury was far better in this situation. I could see things far better. So if anyone can recommend themes that they think will help me in my quest, I’d really appreciate it. I imagine there are others like me that altered the theme, not necessarily trying to be cool or dazzling, but practical and helpful visually in our workflow. So please chime in.
 
2016/11/19 16:43:27
Soft Enerji
Like a few others have said I just don't have time to figure out the theme editor. I use the tungsten theme but if someone has a link to others that are downloadable that would be great!
 
Edit: I think I just saw a link above
 
Cheers
 
Mark
2016/11/19 16:49:38
sausy1981
coolbass
I use Tungsten and another theme ( I forgot whose it is, but thanks to who ever it is) called " Soft tones highlighted buttons".
Both themes are wonderful, but I miss the total channel strip colors in them.

Cheers man that was mine. In this thread. http://forum.cakewalk.com/m/tm.aspx?m=3492597
2016/11/20 01:14:18
Steve_Karl
Not me. Not interested. Would rather work on music.
I'm using the default one that looks almost like X3.
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