Sonar 2025.05 Feedback

[Colin Nicholls]

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It's not the matter of taste, it's a matter of professional incompetence

Not to refute your basic point, which is that contrast between clips and background in the Track View is clearly a pain point and could be improved, but I would encourage more honey, less vinegar.

 

[Sergei Pilin]

3 minutes ago, Colin Nicholls said:

Not to refute your basic point, which is that contrast between clips and background in the Track View is clearly a pain point and could be improved, but I would encourage more honey, less vinegar.

 

Point taken. The vinegar is there because I do care, been a Cakewalk user since 90s. It's just painful to see where it's going _compared_ to the free Cakewalk we've already have. The Cakewalk is the honey, but they want now money for vinegar.

[AB9]

Mercury Classic Bright seems to work best for me.

Edited Sunday at 10:13 AM by AB9

[sjoens]

On 5/15/2025 at 6:56 PM, Base 57 said:

"Secondary Now Time display moved to main toolbar Now Time display as second row"

 I don't like this. I don't remember anyone asking for it. The other way was better.

 

There's actually room in the existing space to improve readability all around:

I doubt the "small" module includes this??

[Waldemar Pawlik]

All these UI "improvements" are going backwards.

The last CbB UI is perfect and should never have been changed for the new Sonar look.

Even though I have paid for the new Sonar, I often find myself going back to CbB simply

because of the new UI is unusable for me.

My two cents worth.

[happen135]

Returning to the theme editor function will easily solve these problems, why not do it this way?

Edited Monday at 12:26 AM by happen135

[User 905133]

57 minutes ago, happen135 said:

Returning to the theme editor function will easily solve these problems, why not do it this way?

Out of curiosity, why do you think it will be easy to implement a theme editor given all the changes?  I was under the impression that the previous kind of editor couldn't be easily implemented with the new graphics methods.

Personally, I would love to be able to use an editor to do personal customizations that meet my needs, such as the following:

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[happen135]

2 hours ago, User 905133 said:

Out of curiosity, why do you think it will be easy to implement a theme editor given all the changes?  I was under the impression that the previous kind of editor couldn't be easily implemented with the new graphics methods.

Personally, I would love to be able to use an editor to do personal customizations that meet my needs, such as the following:

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Sorry, I didn't express myself clearly. I hope Sonar designers can return the theme editor function, and now I am also troubled by the color scheme

[OutrageProductions]

1 hour ago, happen135 said:

Sorry, I didn't express myself clearly. I hope Sonar designers can return the theme editor function, and now I am also troubled by the color scheme

Don't even bother trying to hold your breath on this: vector driven graphics (resizable for resolution) of Sonar are a completely different animal from the old CbB Bitmap style... in both form, function, and coding complexity.

[Sergei Pilin]

17 minutes ago, OutrageProductions said:

Don't even bother trying to hold your breath on this: vector driven graphics (resizable for resolution) of Sonar are a completely different animal from the old CbB Bitmap style... in both form, function, and coding complexity.

Although the vectors in Sonar are probably simple SVGs which isn't hard to customize if there was a theme editor, what I believe he rather means is customizing just color themes leaving vector graphic elements alone. Would be a huge thing in itself considering the current uneditable color choices are subpar.

[lɐʍdlɐʍd]

9 hours ago, Sergei Pilin said:

Although the vectors in Sonar are probably simple SVGs which isn't hard to customize if there was a theme editor, what I believe he rather means is customizing just color themes leaving vector graphic elements alone. Would be a huge thing in itself considering the current uneditable color choices are subpar.

if the colours they're using are variables, rather than hard-coded, then it should be pretty easy to make them user-customisable... having said that, a "previewing" theme editor is much more work

[mgustavo]

Hi, I'd like to report there's an issue with Themes in the new update, but it only occurs in Brazilian Portuguese local language.
It happens when one clicks in  Edit / Preferences / Customization / Colors, and an error message will appear: "Attempted an unsupported operation".
After that it's not possible to click on other Preferences option, because the same message will appear.
Thanks in advance!

 

[Jonathan Sasor]

3 hours ago, mgustavo said:

Hi, I'd like to report there's an issue with Themes in the new update, but it only occurs in Brazilian Portuguese local language.
It happens when one clicks in  Edit / Preferences / Customization / Colors, and an error message will appear: "Attempted an unsupported operation".
After that it's not possible to click on other Preferences option, because the same message will appear.
Thanks in advance!
 

Thanks, we'll get that fixed for the next drop. 

[dappa1]

Is it worth coming back to Cakewalk? What are the top things in the updated version?

[Colin Nicholls]

1 hour ago, dappa1 said:

Is it worth coming back to Cakewalk? What are the top things in the updated version?

It depends where you're coming from. But here's a good place to start learning about what is new:

Edited yesterday at 09:24 PM by Colin Nicholls