Thank you BandLab for the update to the PRV!!!!

I just wanted to thank Meng and BandLab for improving the PRV!!!  I installed the new Cakewalk by BandLab and I like what I see.  I especially like that I have no problem seeing PRV vertical grid lines of less than 1/4 note.  With Sonar Platinum I was having a hard time seeing grid lines of 1/8,1/16 etc. and that was making it kind of challenging to correct timing on some of my recordings.  I look forward with excitement to what BandLab does next!  I'm putting a Tip in the Tip jar for a Cakewalk T-shirt and Coffee mug in appreciation!!!
 
Thanks BandLab!!!!

+1

I have long ached from spending too many hours staring at the white screen. The new darker screen is far easier on my eyes!

scook

dantarbill
Are you saying that there have been coding changes since 2017.10 (23.10.0)?

There are. The most visible (not including theme changes) is the "Replace From Track Template" feature.

Ah...I had failed to fully read the first message of the "free" thread.  I was expecting that they had merely made the existing code free.

Keni
+1
I have long ached from spending too many hours staring at the white screen. The new darker screen is far easier on my eyes!

I also greatly prefer the dark theme. The white PRV always felt odd to me in the Tungsten theme since the other views were dark. For those who prefer the lighter look just switch back to Mercury.

So, what do you change in Theme Editor to get the dark PRV background?
I'm using a edited "Mercsten" "Tuncury" combination theme - but I don't see anything obvious under the piano roll view settings.
 

I also prefer the dark Piano Roll and so I totally agree with the OP. Having a dark theme is easier on your eyes.

Harumph. I liked the white background. The stark contrast helped my waning eyesight. I've switched to the mercury theme to get the old PRV back. 

scook
you could try copying the new tungsten into the old user theme folder (make sure to change the extension to .sth), open it in the old theme editor and import the changes from "Mercsten" or "Tuncury", save and copy the new theme to the new user theme folder.

That's way too much effort. There will be loads of differences (besides the PRV background) between the stock tungsten and mercsten/tuncury
 
 

Need to wait for the new theme editor

I think I'll just do this. ;)
 
So, when we click "edit" in preferences - by where we choose themes, that opens the "old" theme editor?
 

jbraner
 
So, when we click "edit" in preferences - by where we choose themes, that opens the "old" theme editor?
 

Looks that way to me. The header reads SONAR Theme Editor and it defaults to the wrong user theme folder. To use it now instead of copying Tungsten it requires placing a copy of the CbB resources files into Platinum (I got it backwards yesterday). Save the Platinum ones if planning to run Platinum in the future. After that it may not be as bad as I first thought, is should be possible to move the changes from Tungsten to the old user theme. IOW, it should act like the new editor except for the default user folder.

Hi Steve,
 

is should be possible to move the changes from Tungsten to the old user theme.

But, we have to find out where the PRV background setting is. It's not in the "piano roll view" section.
It should be a simple setting, that is white, and we change it to grey...
 
 

scook
Welcome to the SONAR Theme Editor.

Tell me about it! ;)

Preferences > Customization >  Colors > Color Category >  Piano Roll View > Window Background

jackson white
Preferences > Customization >  Colors > Color Category >  Piano Roll View > Window Background

Sorry for the late reply. This doesn't change anything. I closed down Cakewalk and reopened it, just to be sure - but it's still white.
Some of these settings in Colors -> etc etc still work - but a lot of them don't do anything.

@jbraner
 
idk. Running the 2017.10 build, have not installed the CbB version. Changed the background color quite some time ago (from default 'white' to more of a tan/parchment color) and it's been saved into a project template. 
 
> just ran a super quick check on a laptop and it changes the bg color for the "white keys". my tweak happened to be in the same 'color' family and worked out ok.
 
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btw, share your assessment of the timeline selection "feature". It appears to be a "side effect" of the ripple edit release. Some product manager must have been too focused on "optimizing the workflow" for the new feature to the exclusion of "what most users do most of the time". I would guess most users have many reasons for selecting regions on the timeline without ever intending to ripple edit anything. Would be nice if they fixed that. 
 
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also recall having a PC preset somewhere that did -not- include the QuadEQ. It went missing after some sort of crash and had to use "Insert Module" to get it back into the PC. The QuadEQ -was- displayed in the list of available modules. Think I might have saved that as a "blank PC" preset on one of the workstations. will pm you if I find it  and it manages to preserve the completely empty state. my project/PC templates have everything removed and the QuadEQ collapsed/turned off. Which I'm sure is completely obvious ...