Helene Kolpakova
Sorry, but I can't work in Tungsten. I simply don't see anything. It looks similar to Sonar pre-skylight with tons of toolbar buttons. Here come the comparison pics. 
http://imgur.com/a/vk15u
 
The cluttered track controls and control bar, lack of track colours, lack of borders and sections - all that render it completely unusable for me. All I see in the console are meters and the top relatively clean part. Everything else is a decorated new-year-tree LED-like mess. And those laser red dots everywhere instead of Arm for record markers. The FX Bins in the pro-channel are still blue by the way.
Overall, Mercury is sure not ideal, too, but I can at least work in it.
 
And yes, I agree, SONAR needs an ARTIST. And the SkyLight needs a rework too, with attention to CONSISTENCY with actual use cases, not just in colours among all elements.

Yea, I just tried to use it on my real system and it just blinds me. no joke. But I'm in a room about 75% dark.
I need more definition. BUT it's not a big deal as I just set it back. I would like to see a full darker color palette of Mercury moving away from any pastels and but with full track lane colors...

I think the design was pretty well thought out for a first attempt at an alternate darker theme. It's actually hilarious that anyone thinks a programmer did the design. It would be a complete nightmare if that was the case. :-) For something so subjective, the informal percentage of likes compared to dislikes is surprisingly high, so if I was CW, I would consider it a big success. Hopefully they can figure out a way to colorize the few remaining controls that they weren't able to for this attempt. I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with when they have the ability to do it themselves. Should be pretty funny.

Dave000
I said ugly...
As a small example...


If this was done by an artist... CW needs a lead artist to tell the artist what to fix....

I have looked on two screens and mine does not look like yours. Have you looked at the calibration of your screen?

Not my problem because my UI looks pretty good but your screen shot looks set like it has been processed in some other way. Have you reset all your settings back to the default?

I will in the morning but everything is turned off for the evening. But you did not answer the question...

This thread got a bit too intense so not sure if we can have a rational discussion, but as I mentioned before I have a different issue with Tungsten. The loss of depth cues is significant, let me show these two screenshots of TouchDAW, which matches Tungsten's colors very closely:
 

 

 
[Sorry they are scaled down in the forum. The original images are here and here]
 
The two use the exact same colors. But to me the top one is not only ugly, but the fact that there are no depth cues required the designer to use highly contrasting colors so that you can see where one thing ends and another starts. In the bottom image, the need for highly contrasting colors is reduced dramatically because it takes your mind a fraction of a second to clearly identify each control. I can tell immediately what I can interact with without needing to consciously think about it 1st. Anything that is raised is interactable.
 
What I would love is a non-flat Tungsten theme similar to what the 2nd screenshot looks like. Until then I'll stick to Mercury.
 
BTW, did anyone see that Panu posted on the Sonar Mods Facebook page that the Tungsten theme looks "surprisingly like my Dark Side mod with EXE colors". I don't use Duckbar so I'm not familiar with Panu's work.

Dave000
BTW... people not in the software field don't realize that most programmers don't believe that they need artists...
FACT!

Most users don't want to pay what it costs to have professional graphics developed...FACT!
 
If there were no other updates, the darker Titanium would be just fine with me (I've lived with the vanilla for this long after all).
 
Seriously, Dave, we're all very glad you don't like the new theme. It's three clicks to switch back to vanilla and let those of us who enjoy Titanium (I'm holding out for a Blue Steel or Magnum too), enjoy it.
 
I find it a lot easier to use, and it looks more familiar because things like the knob-sweep indicators are becoming a standard visual language in so many VSTs now.
 
This is one of those weird cases where the complaint is a non-complaint: "I don't like that thing that you're not forcing me to use!!!"
 
*shrug*

ps: thx for the update bakers!

ampfixer
Don't lock it. The powers that be have let the other threads run their course and this one is interesting. People are talking about a new feature. Those on the fringe are easily identified and have some good points to make. If YOU don't like the thread then don't read it.
 
The customizable interface was a feature many of us have been longing for since it was announced. I don't think it was delivered as promised and want to see some discussion about it. One new colour scheme does not equal a customizable UI.

I have to read the thread I'm a host. My job in part is to stop personal attacks. Your response was fine until you said don't read the thread. I would refrain in future from telling a host to not read something. 

The new Sonar Tungsten reminds me of PreSonus Studio One 3. The difference between the two are the graphic detail of the dails in Sonar versus Studio One.
I like it, just wished when you color code in Tungsten, it would've became the color within a black background on the entire track in console view.
Awesome job, Bakers...

What's has an Egyptian dip got to do with this?

Grum.

Whoa - 
About dropped my coffee cup, LOL!
For some reason that last post (taken in context with the rest of this thread) reminded me of Nicolas Cage in that infamous movie "Fire Birds".
 
"I am the greatest, I am the greatest...".

 

tenfoot

ampfixer
Don't lock it.  
If YOU don't like the thread then don't read it.

Calling hubris after posting this seems a bit rich ampfixer.

My apologies, it was not my best day.

sonarman1

outland144k
I really like Tungsten, but what would be really cool would be Tungsten with the "robin-egg blue" buttons from Mercury (I'm not a big "orange-gold" person most of the year).

 
They can call it "Merc-sten".  ("Tung-cury"?) 
 
Or maybe an even deeper blue on the buttons?

 
Like: this color, both bright and deep. This would be hyper-cool for me.

Totally that robin egg blue was so good on Tools module, snap module etc etc. That would be the first thing I would like to change. Then the record buttons. They look kind of shabby. Also I liked those plugin boxes in mercury. They had some 3d touch (I guess) and not totally rectanguar like the tungsten ones.

Later update: Oops I posted this only as a reply looking at your post, without realising its this thread I am in. 

 
The Robin-Egg blue is definitely cool, but I'd probably settle for any blue at all instead of the orange (though I really like the blue I used above and while I don't "hate" orange-gold, blue is definitely cooler for me).  But really, I'm thankful for the changes in Tungsten; I had no problems with Mercury, but it's been there a while and I appreciate change generally. And I know that I'll be thankful for the ability to do my own theme. I've got probably hundreds of tiny little bitmap icons for use with my synths in SPlat: everything from pictures of musicians like Hendrix, Brecker, and Jaco to pictures of instruments to comic book characters and designs.

karhide

Dave000

karhide
I will in the morning but everything is turned off for the evening. But you did not answer the question...

I use Photoshop, RGB 16 million colors, Jpg file... It's truly a no brainer. What I see is what I get. 
I've been doing computer graphics for over 20 years so I could be wrong but I'm not!
 
ttfn
 

 
Here's a quick screen shot of from my play laptop that is just a screen capture without photoshop being involved.  
 
I have been a developer for over 20 years and most of that has been web and UI development but so I have fair amount of experience as well.  
 

It looks just like mine but you don't have W on, you have all frequents turned on and you don't have the eq knobs showing. So then... ??? what where you saying? what did you mean? ok, whatever... lol