Without trying to sound like I am dissing Trance Canada, (which I am absolutely not intending to do), I waited a long time for a dark theme in the X series and still prefer Tungsten to everything else out there including Panu's dark themes. Having said that - I am amazed at how accurately TC has been able to recreate the look and vibe of 8.5. Very, very impressive.

TranceCanada

gmp
Good job! 8.5 had several different looks, some better than others. With 8.5 I spent a lot of time really getting everything very clear.
 
Thanks TranceCanada for trying to resurrect the 8.5 theme, I hope my screenshot gives you some ideas on further improvements
 
 

 
That definitely helps.  I never had Sonar 8.5 and so I had to rely on what I could find on google and I couldn't find any screen shots to see the tracks as well as this, so I'll I'd love to make some touch ups using this screen shot.
 
For the color coding of the names backgrounds, theme editor doesn't allow different backgrounds for each type of track, it only uses the same one for all

Man this is the best news I've had in a long time. I'm so glad you're wanting to do this. You can see my posts referring to 8.5 in the "How Many Are Using Custom Themes?" thread. I hope you can change the clip colors closer to my 8.5 theme. I like your bright colors, but I think the softer ones will do even better. A big point for me is the color coding for the sliders in the Track Pane. It's so much easier to find pan, since it's red, whereas volume is blue and then trim is violet. I'm going to give you several more screen shots very soon. Thanks for all your hard work and efforts. I know many will appreciate this.

gmp

TranceCanada

gmp
Good job! 8.5 had several different looks, some better than others. With 8.5 I spent a lot of time really getting everything very clear.
 
Thanks TranceCanada for trying to resurrect the 8.5 theme, I hope my screenshot gives you some ideas on further improvements
 
 

 
That definitely helps.  I never had Sonar 8.5 and so I had to rely on what I could find on google and I couldn't find any screen shots to see the tracks as well as this, so I'll I'd love to make some touch ups using this screen shot.
 
For the color coding of the names backgrounds, theme editor doesn't allow different backgrounds for each type of track, it only uses the same one for all

Man this is the best news I've had in a long time. I'm so glad you're wanting to do this. You can see my posts referring to 8.5 in the "How Many Are Using Custom Themes?" thread. I hope you can change the clip colors closer to my 8.5 theme. I like your bright colors, but I think the softer ones will do even better. A big point for me is the color coding for the sliders in the Track Pane. It's so much easier to find pan, since it's red, whereas volume is blue and then trim is violet. I'm going to give you several more screen shots very soon. Thanks for all your hard work and efforts. I know many will appreciate this.

Thanks man, the more screenshots I get the closer it'll become.  There are still limitations with how the new Sonar is coded for color though, from what I can tell the pan/volume/trim sliders are now all run through the same color just the the track name backgrounds.  The clips I should have no trouble changing though.  I do also still plan to complete the sequencer, prochannels, and the matrix along with whatever else I have left out so far.  if you could get a screenshot of the old sequencer (since I didn't have 8.5 I'm only assuming it had a sequencer) that would be gold for me

Here's some more screenshots of 8.5
 
Check out the audio clips with different waveform colors and background colors
 

 
Midi clip colors with muted and archived tracks and full view of Track Pane
 

 
A good view of the audio track pane
 

 
The bus pane
 

 
Hopes this helps TranceCanada. Thanks for what you're doing for all of us

 

TranceCanada

gmp
 

Thanks man, the more screenshots I get the closer it'll become.  There are still limitations with how the new Sonar is coded for color though, from what I can tell the pan/volume/trim sliders are now all run through the same color just the the track name backgrounds.  The clips I should have no trouble changing though.  I do also still plan to complete the sequencer, prochannels, and the matrix along with whatever else I have left out so far.  if you could get a screenshot of the old sequencer (since I didn't have 8.5 I'm only assuming it had a sequencer) that would be gold for me

 
Right I understand those limitations. I hope Cakewalk sees this post and gives us more flexibility with this. I'll go to work on some of those additional screenshots. Feel free to ask for any screenshots or clarifications.

gmp
 

TranceCanada

gmp
 

Thanks man, the more screenshots I get the closer it'll become.  There are still limitations with how the new Sonar is coded for color though, from what I can tell the pan/volume/trim sliders are now all run through the same color just the the track name backgrounds.  The clips I should have no trouble changing though.  I do also still plan to complete the sequencer, prochannels, and the matrix along with whatever else I have left out so far.  if you could get a screenshot of the old sequencer (since I didn't have 8.5 I'm only assuming it had a sequencer) that would be gold for me

 
Right I understand those limitations. I hope Cakewalk sees this post and gives us more flexibility with this. I'll go to work on some of those additional screenshots. Feel free to ask for any screenshots or clarifications.

 
Could you can get an example of what the ten MIDI tracks so I could see what those colors were?
 
I really appreciate your help

I found a mistake in the piano roll and and have fixed it, also updated the track colors.  Will continue to update and notify of newer versions available

TranceCanada

gmp
 

TranceCanada

gmp
 

Thanks man, the more screenshots I get the closer it'll become.  There are still limitations with how the new Sonar is coded for color though, from what I can tell the pan/volume/trim sliders are now all run through the same color just the the track name backgrounds.  The clips I should have no trouble changing though.  I do also still plan to complete the sequencer, prochannels, and the matrix along with whatever else I have left out so far.  if you could get a screenshot of the old sequencer (since I didn't have 8.5 I'm only assuming it had a sequencer) that would be gold for me

 
Right I understand those limitations. I hope Cakewalk sees this post and gives us more flexibility with this. I'll go to work on some of those additional screenshots. Feel free to ask for any screenshots or clarifications.

 
Could you can get an example of what the ten MIDI tracks so I could see what those colors were?
 
I really appreciate your help

Here's 10 midi tracks so you can see all the 10 different colors
 

 

Here's 10 audio tracks so you can see all the 10 different colors

gmp
 

Here's 10 midi tracks so you can see all the 10 different colors
 

 

Here's 10 audio tracks so you can see all the 10 different colors

That's perfect thank you, was there a sequencer in 8.5? and maybe the console view too, please

TranceCanada
I found a mistake in the piano roll and and have fixed it, also updated the track colors.  Will continue to update and notify of newer versions available

So do we use the original dropbox URL in your  first post of this thread to download this new version?