Anderton

alewgro
What I meant was, it's all great Cakewalk likes this black clip background, but *I* don't, and why did they take that option away?

I don't know. I suppose I would care more if it mattered to me. Color customization became much less limited between X1 and X3. I haven't delved into platinum enough to know if there has been an incremental increase of color options between X3 and Platinum.

 
It became less AND more limited.   For some reason, they decided with Sonar X3 to remove the option for coloring your clip backgrounds by track color (but left the foreground colors in place) - if that makes any sense.
 
It seems like a small issue, but it is a big issue for me.  I have eyesight issues and coloring the tracks allows me to sit longer without straining myself, and helps me organize my song better.   

Look at my sample picture that I have setup using Duckbar compared to the colors Cakewalk tries to keep you with (see 1 page back I believe).  So much easier on the eyes.
 
Yes, it seems like a small issue, but I can assure you it isn't for me, and is literally holding me back from purchasing this week.

Since there are some people like me that would like it to apply to a track, including new clips to be recorded on that track (without always having to select those clips and change it) --
The question is ---is this a hard thing for the Cakewalk people to do in an update?  I do not mind paying for it.
Is it cost prohibitive somehow, or are they worried about other bugs by having this feature?

Even if only 1/3 of the people care about this, if it is not an easy fix, why not do it?  I suspect it may not be easy.

alewgro
It's amazing that they actually REMOVED this!  It was in X2

Right, so set colors in X2, export the file and import to X3 or Platinum.
 
That's what I did.

Guitarpima is visually impaired and finds the coloring difficult to deal with as well. So I know it's an issue for some people. I have no idea how difficult or easy it would be to change, but one of the open positions at Cakewalk is for a Senior Software Engineer and the first requirement for experience is "Modern UI." So the answer might be as simple as they don't have anyone on staff who specializes in UI design right now, which I assume is what you would need for something like this.

brundlefly

alewgro
It's amazing that they actually REMOVED this!  It was in X2

Right, so set colors in X2, export the file and import to X3 or Platinum.
 
That's what I did.

but then you have to import ALL colors, no?

brundlefly

alewgro
It's amazing that they actually REMOVED this!  It was in X2

Right, so set colors in X2, export the file and import to X3 or Platinum.
 
That's what I did.

That's all you need to do? Very clever.

cool, so this new employee had to go back to X2 and bring back clip backgrounds!  Can i take the job?

alewgro
cool, so this new employee had to go back to X2 and bring back clip backgrounds!  Can i take the job?

Are you a really excellent senior software engineer? Feel free to apply, they're hiring!

Anderton

alewgro
cool, so this new employee had to go back to X2 and bring back clip backgrounds!  Can i take the job?

Are you a really excellent senior software engineer? Feel free to apply, they're hiring!

Actually, I am (true), but I have an excellent job here in New Jersey - also GUI ain't my thing really.   Please bring back clip colors Sonar!   I will upgrade as soon as you do!

Dan Gonzalez [Cakewalk]

alewgro
Having black clips everywhere kinda sux.   Before Sonar X3 you could adjust the background color of a clip, but X3 removed that.   I wish when coloring a track, it would change the BACKGROUND, not the FOREGROUND (notes).

You can change the background color of any clip. Go to the clip inspector and it's right there. :)

When Dan said the above was he referring to new Sonar MAYBE. I haven't done any color editing yet as I usually rely on my Duckbar color scheme and that's enough for me. Has anyone with the new Sonar tried it to see if the change in Clip Inspector is permanent?