Until today, I was not using the change theme function.  I saw Klaus's theme tweek, downloaded it, installed it, and I am in love!  Thanks so much Klaus!  For me, this was a nearly perfect adjustment to Sonar's colors. (I have "old" eyes)
   I am encouraged to try some of the other themes which you guys have worked so hard to create.

I use Mercury but change colours here & there. Notably MEDIA Plugins and SYNTH tabs & corresponding track icons.
Can see audio/midi/folders immediately.
 
Tried to change colour of FX bin but can't seem to do it - would appreciate help.
 
Also would like to separate PC modules with coloured line between - again could use a hand to find out what to select.
 
Dan

jeteague
Until today, I was not using the change theme function.  I saw Klaus's theme tweek, downloaded it, installed it, and I am in love!  Thanks so much Klaus!  For me, this was a nearly perfect adjustment to Sonar's colors. (I have "old" eyes)
   I am encouraged to try some of the other themes which you guys have worked so hard to create.

Thanks for the kind words and I'm really glad it's useful for you, too!
 
But keep in mind it's not a complete theme compared to what other users have contributed.
I only changed certain elements which were important to me so it doesn't look uniformly in all areas of SONAR.
 
Best,
Klaus
 

I really really want to use the Theme Editor but cannot until they sort out the Strip Colour bug.  Why on earth editing any one tiny element of the Mercury theme removes Strip Colour is beyond me. And they don't seem to be showing any sign that they are sorting this out. Using SONAR in large projects without Strip colours is unworkable for me. I want a dark version of Mercury, or a Tungsten with Strip colours. 
My Rolling Updates subscription ran out after July. I have seen nothing in the updates since then that makes me want to get on board again. Whereas as soon as they sort this issue out my credit card is coming straight out of my pocket.

The theme editor for me takes way too much time and effort...mainly because it just doesn't seem all that easy to get results fairly quickly...like even within an hour.
 
The idea of having a variety of themes to choose from would be great.  I use Mercury and like it best.  Tungston has good contrast but is too dark for me.  But both are very good and I'd be all for Cake coming up with a 1/2 dozen or so along those quality lines.
The ones the "users" have created are decent but I find almost like a bag of m and m's... just so colorful or some dominant color that I'm not really into... kinda like a "crazy car" paint color....or a "glowing color".
 
There's one that Caa2....or similar name that is creating one, that I really like and will be eager for them to finish.  I'm thinking I might be liking it best almost of all I've seen.  It's kinda retro, but relaxing...  not dark black with day-glo orange meters and buttons.

I've tried them now. ... Pretty cool stuff in there.
 
I liked the Green Glow, Purple Glow, Aqua Glow ones personally.
 
The Surf Blue was kinda cool tho too. Different ones ... I liked lots of them.

I've downloaded some themes and can't figure out how to import them. I’m using 2016.09 Under preferences "Themes" the only thing I see that might work is hitting the edit button to open the theme editor, which I've done. I can import the new themes into the Theme editor, but that still doesn’t allow me to select the theme in Sonar.  In the drop down list my only choices are Tungsten and Mercury. The local help file is no help.
 
What am I missing?

Ok, I figured it out. We need to copy the new themes in the Cakewalk Content folder.
 
C:\Cakewalk Content\SONAR Themes
 
I found this info in the Theme Editor help file. I really think this should be put in the Sonar Local documentation, since many are not interested in editing the themes, but are interested in trying out user created themes.
 

...

The Grim
..., and scook's pro channel module skins

Where do you get these? Are they just in the tuncury themes? Or are they seperate?
(I don't see anything on the resources page)

gswitz
I've tried them now. ... Pretty cool stuff in there. 
I liked the Green Glow, Purple Glow, Aqua Glow ones personally. 
The Surf Blue was kinda cool tho too. Different ones ... I liked lots of them. 

mixmkr
The ones the "users" have created are decent but I find almost like a bag of m and m's... just so colorful or some dominant color that I'm not really into... kinda like a "crazy car" paint color....or a "glowing color".

 
Chocolate and vanilla....   ;-)