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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 appreciate your meandering - lots of useful back story. I agree this is very strange that there's no reaction from Cakewalk. I hope we at least hear something. Let's keep rattling the cage.

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subtlearts

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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 appreciate your meandering - lots of useful back story. I agree this is very strange that there's no reaction from Cakewalk. I hope we at least hear something. Let's keep rattling the cage.

I am so grateful for the Theme Editor, but I agree that there are many things within it that need some attention since the initial release, so many things that are left out and unable to alter.  I have been very surprised there hasn't been some kind of update so far. 

I have now updated the Step sequencer
 
https://www.dropbox.com/s...bvo1e/Sonar85.sth?dl=0

Just wanna say thanks for this theme! IMO, a less cluttered and "easier" look like this goes a long way.

BUTTONS!  I love buttons, especially the cube shaped buttons that are lit from inside.
I like the Tungsten color theme, but the buttons in the 8.5.1 theme actually LOOK like real 3D buttons that light up when pressed, and dimly light when moused over, as opposed to the flat one-dimensional squares that are in the new Sonar versions.  If I had the time and patience, I'd keep the color theme from Tungsten and just replace all the flat buttons to the more realistic looking cube buttons.

THIS is what buttons should look like: