Colin Nicholls Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 Quote 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Pilin Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AB9 Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 (edited) Mercury Classic Bright seems to work best for me. Edited May 18 by AB9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjoens Posted May 18 Share Posted May 18 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?? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldemar Pawlik Posted May 18 Share Posted May 18 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. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happen135 Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 (edited) Returning to the theme editor function will easily solve these problems, why not do it this way? Edited May 19 by happen135 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User 905133 Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 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: . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happen135 Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 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: . 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutrageProductions Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 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. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Pilin Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lɐʍdlɐʍd Posted Monday at 04:12 PM Share Posted Monday at 04:12 PM 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgustavo Posted Tuesday at 04:40 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:40 PM 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Sasor Posted Tuesday at 08:01 PM Author Share Posted Tuesday at 08:01 PM 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. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dappa1 Posted Wednesday at 07:47 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 07:47 PM Is it worth coming back to Cakewalk? What are the top things in the updated version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Nicholls Posted Wednesday at 09:23 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 09:23 PM (edited) 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 Wednesday at 09:24 PM by Colin Nicholls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Borthwick Posted yesterday at 01:23 AM Share Posted yesterday at 01:23 AM On 5/16/2025 at 1:21 PM, Aaron Doss said: However, if it is an Ozone bug, I would expect that removing the plugin from the FX chain would restore audio back to normal in Sonar/Cakewalk. Not necessarily since the dll is still loaded and likely corrupt. Try closing the project and opening it again and then insert ozone and see if the problem persists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Borthwick Posted yesterday at 01:26 AM Share Posted yesterday at 01:26 AM On 5/17/2025 at 12:59 AM, Aaron Doss said: Final Update: The issue was related to the automation of the low-pass filter frequency on "Ozone 11 Equalizer" on an individual track. For some reason, changing the low-pass frequency on the equalizer caused the "Ozone 11 Mastering" plugin (a separate FX plugin on the Master bus) to lock up and cause Sonar to stop outputting audio. They must use a shared library that enters a corrupted state. Removing the automation on the individual track prevents the mastering plugin from corrupting Sonar. I wanted a sweeping low-pass filter and decided to automate the Sonar Pro-Channel EQ., This works fine. Good troubleshooting. This should be reported to izotope. It's not a Sonar issue. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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