Yes it is the original link, but I'll re-post the link with the next major update I make

Here's the console view

 
Matrix, step sequencer, synth rack
 

 

Thanks so much for your hard work, you really have some skill with this stuff!

TranceCanada
Yes it is the original link, but I'll re-post the link with the next major update I make

Wow I'm blown away. That's fast work! You've nailed the clip colors and when you select the clip - that's great. The clarity of everything is so much better in this theme - super job!

TranceCanada, thanks for the nice 8.5 template.  One small item........maybe I'm missing something, but I can no longer find the settings access button on the control bar.

fantini
TranceCanada, thanks for the nice 8.5 template.  One small item........maybe I'm missing something, but I can no longer find the settings access button on the control bar.

I'm kind of confused, what settings access button do you mean? where is it usually?

It would be the metronome settings button on the lower right to tempo and meter key signature.  Actually you have included the button and it was my oversight.  I've been in the habit of using that button to access the preferences menu and I didn't recognize it at first.  Thanks again for all your efforts.

Do you think Cakewalk is planning on fixing the Theme Editor so that we can still have colored track strips? I do miss them

gmp
Do you think Cakewalk is planning on fixing the Theme Editor so that we can still have colored track strips? I do miss them

Well despite it being mentioned about a thousand times by about 300 different people in 100 different threads, nobody from CW - to my knowledge - seems to have jumped up and said it's planned, or not planned (or why not). It seems really weird, since Mercury can still be loaded, with working multicolour strips, into the theme engine. But I gather from various people that do theming that if you change anything, and try to save a new theme, the strips go uniform. Maybe Mercury bypasses the theme engine in some way that allows it to still use multicolour strips, but it seems odd nevertheless... and stranger still that no-one from the company ever seems to acknowledge it in any way (correct me if I'm wrong, I may well have overlooked something).

It's obviously something a fair number of people want to have, and hard to understand why it would be *that* hard to code (though not being a programmer, I could easily be very wrong about that too). Are they just hoping if they ignore it for long enough people will stop talking about it and it will go away? Not trying to be obnoxious or float conspiracy theories, just honestly wondering what's up with that. 
 
End of tangential meander, back to the 8.5 theme, which looks great - I'm about to take it for a spin! Thanks!

Hey I like this! Thanks!