Flat minimalistic and dark

[John Nelson 115]

Erik, your burgers deliver the beef indeed.  And as a user of your themes... thank you!  That flat minimal thing... not so much.

 

Edited September 11, 2021 by John Nelson

[John Nelson 115]

Well, someone had to haul off and do it then.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vbtbhojkffnxb5b/Flat Minimalistic %26 Dark.sth?dl=0

*updated 10/20/2021

Edited October 20, 2021 by John Nelson

[Starship Krupa 4,375]

Woo-hoo! And for irony, it appears to be derived from the gaudiest theme in the pantheon. 😆

You may want to revert About Box to the original. It shows an Evangelion Angel getting ready to attack Boston.

I'm glad it follows the Nicholls/Krupa icon choice for Instrument and Synth tracks.

A suggestion: in keeping with the black-and-white look, replace the note durations in PRV with the ones from Tungsten, and black-and-white the #2 cells:

I may go back to that green gridding in the PRV. I since changed it to  have red lines for the measures in some of my dark themes, but having them be a brighter version of the theme color still looks pretty nice. It goes well with the Midnight Blue color preset to brighten up the grid lines in Track View.

There's one issue with your Smart Grid button. It looks the same as your Standard Grid button, so I can't tell when Smart Grid is enabled. Something like this maybe?:

I've already made these changes to my copy of the theme, let me know if you want to incorporate them.

Also: it looks like you're working from an earlier version of EVA 01 and/or Yellow Submarine. I've tuned up many of the images since then. Sometimes I slipstream updates without making a big announcement.

Edited September 30, 2021 by Starship Krupa

[scook 4,891]

10 minutes ago, Starship Krupa said:

It shows an Evangelion Angel getting ready to attack Boston.

But the Easter egg is still there, right?

Or am I giving away a CW/BL secret?

[Starship Krupa 4,375]

Is there an Easter egg in Cakewalk? I was referring to the image I added to the EVA 01 about box. I pasted in an image from Neon Genesis: Evangelion to fit with the theme.

[scook 4,891]

Is there?

[John Nelson 115]

1 hour ago, Starship Krupa said:

Woo-hoo! And for irony, it appears to be derived from the gaudiest theme in the pantheon. 😆

You may want to revert About Box to the original. It shows an Evangelion Angel getting ready to attack Boston.

I'm glad it follows the Nicholls/Krupa icon choice for Instrument and Synth tracks.

A suggestion: in keeping with the black-and-white look, replace the note durations in PRV with the ones from Tungsten, and black-and-white the #2 cells:

I may go back to that green gridding in the PRV. I since changed it to  have red lines for the measures in some of my dark themes, but having them be a brighter version of the theme color still looks pretty nice. It goes well with the Midnight Blue color preset to brighten up the grid lines in Track View.

There's one issue with your Smart Grid button. It looks the same as your Standard Grid button, so I can't tell when Smart Grid is enabled. Something like this maybe?:

I've already made these changes to my copy of the theme, let me know if you want to incorporate them.

Also: it looks like you're working from an earlier version of EVA 01 and/or Yellow Submarine. I've tuned up many of the images since then. Sometimes I slipstream updates without making a big announcement.

Thanks for backstopping me, Erik. I'll clean 'er up a bit (if you happen to send me your icons it would be great).

[Deleted Account 2]

Niceeee, for me it would be very helpful.

[Colin Nicholls 788]

Pretty nice, @John Nelson. I was thinking of dabbling in a theme based on the appearance of Anubis & Music Mission, but I don't see the point - this is pretty close.

BTW, Is this a glitch, or intentional?

Regarding Transport buttons, I see what you're doing with the RECORD vs the other five, but visually I'd recommend committing to a square button rather than rounding the corners. Similar to the Select or Smart module buttons in shape. I think it would look better. Just my opinion.

[Starship Krupa 4,375]

2 hours ago, Colin Nicholls said:

Regarding Transport buttons, I see what you're doing with the RECORD vs the other five, but visually I'd recommend committing to a square button rather than rounding the corners. Similar to the Select or Smart module buttons in shape. I think it would look better. Just my opinion.

It was a tough call. I couldn't fit all of the  record mode indicators on a round button, and it really does look odd to have that one button with sharp corners when everything else in the module is round or oval.

I'll revisit the round buttons and see if there's some way I can do the Record button mode indications on a round button. I dunno, they're kinda cryptic anyway.

What looks glitch-y about John's slider to you? I think he's going for "minimalistic."

[Colin Nicholls 788]

44 minutes ago, Starship Krupa said:

What looks glitch-y about John's slider to you? I think he's going for "minimalistic."

The fact the horizontal white line overlaps the square slider outline.

[Starship Krupa 4,375]

1 hour ago, Colin Nicholls said:

The fact the horizontal white line overlaps the square slider outline.

Oh, I see. Looks like the slider image is a few pixels too wide?

[Starship Krupa 4,375]

On 10/14/2021 at 12:05 PM, Colin Nicholls said:

BTW, Is this a glitch, or intentional?

Regarding Transport buttons, I see what you're doing with the RECORD vs the other five, but visually I'd recommend committing to a square button rather than rounding the corners. Similar to the Select or Smart module buttons in shape. I think it would look better. Just my opinion.

Curse you.

Okay, Yellow Submarine, EVA01, and FlatMinimalistic&Dark all have updated RECORD buttons in their transport modules. The RECORD button is now round like the other ones (dig my solution to not having enough room to write "Step" for Step Record mode?):

I also updated some of the other art in FlatMinimalistic&Dark to make it more closely match the original prototype as posted.

 

 

Edited October 19, 2021 by Starship Krupa
Updated

[Colin Nicholls 788]

2 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

(dig my solution to not having enough room to write "Step" for Step Record mode?):

Sexy

[Starship Krupa 4,375]

I further overhauled the round Yellow Submarine/EVA 01 Transport buttons, and updated this theme with them. They're all now the same diameter as the Record button. Enjoy!

FlatMinimalistic&Dark.sth

[John Nelson 115]

Erik, I made a few minor changes.

1.) Stereo/Mono Interleaves (closer matching the prototype) 

2.) Round Write Automation buttons.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vbtbhojkffnxb5b/Flat Minimalistic %26 Dark.sth?dl=0

Cheers!

[Prateev Bardhan 0]

i will be back to cakewalk if this theme comes to public 

[Starship Krupa 4,375]

1 hour ago, Prateev Bardhan said:

i will be back to cakewalk if this theme comes to public 

Click on the link in the post just above yours and you'll be in for a nice surprise. @John Nelson released it to the public back in September, there have been a couple of artwork updates since then. It's ready for anyone to enjoy.

[sjoens 563]

On 9/29/2021 at 6:58 PM, scook said:

Is there?

Sorry, I see nothing there!

What I do see is when clicking the "Legal" button, either the whole About window disappears or CbB turns white for a sec. - but that could just be a video driver/memory conflict because the Preferences window sometimes also disappears when changing a theme.

[scook 4,891]

The Legal button should show this