UGLY UI... SpLat 2016.5

Really? Maybe the bakers should consider getting an artist who understands pallets! It's apparent to me that a programmer is trying to get SpLat to look good...  Yea! That's NOT going to work! Orange and black... Halloween!?  
and nothing else looks right together... lol
Maybe you should start over with a basic UI in black, white and levels for grey as the default then the user can chose a base color/s to fill in the greys. Cakewalk, you want the best!? it needs to look the best and the person you have messing it up now cannot get it done! YOU NEED an ARTIST!
   

All I see it the peanut gallery reply's, nothing from the hundreds of users...
Black & orange is not a theme when nothing else is in contrast.
and as far as changing it back... that's a no! all you can change is the contrast of the black and orange!
bright, dark, mono, normal. I guess the biggest point is that the UI hype was just that hype.
 
As far as CW predicted what the UI will become! You're talking about a few hours of work by a real artist to complete many real themes OR a few thousand dollars to pay a programmer over the spring just to get black and orange!
 
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Bigwig uses same color scheme -- edit, bitwig

stratman70
Hmmm-This is weird because I just logged in to comment on the UI when I saw this post. What I was going to say is-
 
Thank You Cake--For this old guy-Everything just seems much, much clearer-almost akin to a mix where everything sits well and can be heard. I see better than I have in a while. I am not so much talking colors-but the default-even the orange -everything seems much sharper - more defined. I guess maybe this only helps old guys like me but I love it. Lots of definition. Just my 2 cents
 

yea right, tell me right now that you can see the meter digits well in smoky white and smoky gray...

ampfixer

Dave000
All I see it the peanut gallery reply's, nothing from the hundreds of users...
Black & orange is not a theme when nothing else is in contrast.
and as far as changing it back... that's a no! all you can change is the contrast of the black and orange!
bright, dark, mono, normal. I guess the biggest point is that the UI hype was just that hype.
 
As far as CW predicted what the UI will become! You're talking about a few hours of work by a real artist to complete many real themes OR a few thousand dollars to pay a programmer over the spring just to get black and orange!
 
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As a matter of fact, you can change it back. There is now a Theme setting in preferences. You may keep the new look or select the original in preferences. Right now it's not as good as the tools that Panu has, but it's a start. I'm thinking that improvements will become part of the monthly updates.

thanks for the info, I'll look into it. :)
But like I said... the fix need not be months! it's a day a theme for an artist! Not a theme a season for a programmer...

stratman70

Dave000

stratman70
Hmmm-This is weird because I just logged in to comment on the UI when I saw this post. What I was going to say is-
 
Thank You Cake--For this old guy-Everything just seems much, much clearer-almost akin to a mix where everything sits well and can be heard. I see better than I have in a while. I am not so much talking colors-but the default-even the orange -everything seems much sharper - more defined. I guess maybe this only helps old guys like me but I love it. Lots of definition. Just my 2 cents
 
I have no emotion in this, lol that's how you read it... I just know what I see in the UI is... and know what it could be. so I said so... lol just as always...

yea right, tell me right now that you can see the meter digits well in smoky white and smoky gray...

So change it-why so emotional and negative towards other users opinions? Do you think I am lying in my post above? Jeeezzzzzz

So now you're going to block my reply's? and it's my post! and I'm having a conversation.... if people don't want to hear what I say, then they can NOT talk to me...

Yoda, thanks for pointing me to the themes, I flew right by them to colors... :)
 
and the "illusion" of a new theme will seem to look better then and old theme... now after looking into the black theme for a few days set it back and see what you think.... 

once again, I'm not complaining... I'm just saying that... so far SPlat, it looks like crap! and what the Bakers have done to fix it has done nothing to fix it... and they would have not tried to fix it if they thought it was good in the first place...
 
As I said, they need an artist who can put out a theme a day and stop paying a programmer for a half a theme a season...

Steve Lum
Well, I'm a programmer and I work with UX and UI folks all the time.  One thing I can tell you from my 30+ years in software dev is, you can never please everybody, and if you wait a couple years between cycles, tastes swing like a pendulum, light to dark, dark to light, colorful to muted, etc.
 
Personally, I too like the new dark theme very much, and popped in to say as much, so thanks for the opportunity.  Being a Cake user since the DOS days, I can say with confidence that it only gets better and better and I am thankful for all these amazing years working with this outstanding software.  Do I have a list of gripes? You betcha, but that's life.  My car isn't as awesome as I would like it to be, and I could use another ****-ton of guitars, but... I still love what I've got :)
 
Lum

The good old DOS days.. 12 tone midi... you got to love it! I still have my floppy's in the teal and white box... ;)
I worked in Game development as a artist and art had to fly out from the art gods fast... and the programmers took forever and ever and ever... TWO different type humans... crazy dayz and it all got done!
 

i don't think and wouldn't say it looks like crap, i wasn't sure about some of the color choices myself, but hey, i still think it looks quite good. it reminds me very much of a couple of reaper custom themes. the only time people will ever be 100% pleased by something is when they have the ability to change the bits they don't like to be how they want them. if you are like me and couldn't really be bothered nor have the desire to be learning to do that and would prefer to be playing and recording you take what you get, get use to it and carry on. sonar isn't even my main daw and i don't use it much any longer, but i do think the lifetime membership is pretty awesome (i jumped on that straight away), and this latest release seems pretty good (although i haven't installed the final official yet, just the early release), the first time i have updated since manchester. i still stay with my other daw and keep an eye on sonar, after all in for life now with no added extra cost (extras excluded)

The Grim
i don't think and wouldn't say it looks like crap, i wasn't sure about some of the color choices myself, but hey, i still think it looks quite good. it reminds me very much of a couple of reaper custom themes. the only time people will ever be 100% pleased by something is when they have the ability to change the bits they don't like to be how they want them. if you are like me and couldn't really be bothered nor have the desire to be learning to do that and would prefer to be playing and recording you take what you get, get use to it and carry on. sonar isn't even my main daw and i don't use it much any longer, but i do think the lifetime membership is pretty awesome (i jumped on that straight away), and this latest release seems pretty good (although i haven't installed the final official yet, just the early release), the first time i have updated since manchester. i still stay with my other daw and keep an eye on sonar, after all in for life now with no added extra cost (extras excluded)

Hey, yea just let me work! but when I booted 2016. 5... man what I see was mush... I reset the meters myself and that fine, and I will fish though the weeds and be happy creating! :) so that makes me happy. but sometime CW needs to know what people other then the peanut gallery things... BTW, I have been really happy with lots of stuff coming out... :) but I don't normally waste my days here telling the world... CW is so close now to perfection in my view for my needs that, I want to push at them and poke them to get the UI to ROCK! as I am just hanging at home, multi tasking on here and with other stuff... more just for fun then anything... got a busy few weeks of nothing going on but fun! and it started here! lol

I believe Dave000 is really Dave Trump, Donald's lost brother. His comments sound very familiar. Maybe he should switch to decaf. Really dude, does Tungsten bother you that much? How do you handle real issues in life?