I didn't notice any migration, but I am willing to adjust things anyway because I know colors and shortcuts etc. have changed anyway. I was getting somewhere with my color scheme, then I couldn't find something to change time ruler background, that's all, which makes a big difference in the look.


LJ

Didn´t notice any migration either, however I imported a couple of Sonar 8.x colour-presets - all of a sudden I had a bunch (15-20) of presets. + it also seems to "awaken" some colour-settings in X2, just like it did in X1.

weird .....8.5 colors work in X2 ? 

I never thought to import my 8.5 color scheme. Thanks for the idea! My timeline is now ledgable!!!

PLEASE SEND THEM TO ME. THEY GOTTA BE BETTER THAN THA DEFAULT.
 

yeah, me too.
what a great idea.
now i have to dig up the copy of 8.5 i was using and figure out how to export it.

Holy crap - It worked the 8.5 color skeem loaded and made my time line ruler background black.... Sweet!

LJ

This is phenomenal!! What a stroke of genius!!

But then if 8.5 color schemes work in X2, why didn't they say so at the very least? And why didn't they just implement it??

You are kidding me!  All this time and they [color schemes] were available all along.  I found this old thread: http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=956469
and followed the link to the site with Sonar Color Schemes : https://sites.google.com/site/sonartemplates/home.  I downloaded one of these pretty and very different color schemes.  Guess what?  It worked!  After the color scheme was imported, I then just saved it as a preset in the preset box in the Color section in preferences in X2.  And now I have a beige (don't laugh) X2 that is easy to see and read.

This is ridiculous.  Sorry to vent.  But hurray! I have now X2 with usable colors.  

Thanks PGW or whoever earlier in this thread suggested imported 8.5 color schemes.  Really--THANKS.


[edited:  Oh, and yorolpal's "cafe latte" scheme is there in the light template section.  Wow, this is great!]

Lanceindastudio


Holy crap - It worked the 8.5 color skeem loaded and made my time line ruler background black.... Sweet!

LJ

 
This is because there are many colors in the Registry that do not appear in the Preferences list!
 
SONAR COLORS 101
The current color scheme for Sonar is listed in the registry tree:
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER - Software - Cakewalk Music Software - SONAR Producer - X2 - Colors".
 
This is a full list of changeable colors. Time Ruler Background is one of them, even though it is not found in Preferences.
All Sonar apps use a similar registry list so if a color choice is available in both Sonar 8 and X2 you can set up a Sonar 8 color scheme and import it into X2. Any colors that aren't in the X2 list will simply not change.
 
If you know RGB color codes you can change them in the registry. Panu has a utility that can change these colors also.
 
 
Steve