Please restore the theme editor

[happen135]

I have been a user of the Cakewalk Sonar since 2004, and the new Sonar has brought about a new revolution with significant improvements and advancements. Thank you to Cakewalk! But the commonly used themes nowadays are either too black or too white. For me, an elderly person, the burden on my eyes has increased. I kindly request the R&D team to restore the theme editor from the CbB era, so that users can customize the colors that each window can adapt to. I don't know how much manpower, material resources, and financial resources are needed to implement this feature, but it is crucial. Please!

[Promidi]

CbB is bitmap based.  Sonar Free and Sonar Premium is vector based.

To implement a Theme editor for Sonar would require a complete rewrite .  

Maybe down the track, the adjustment of more colours can be made possible.  However, other than that, I do not see this as being a priority at this time.

[pedwal wally wally wha]

56 minutes ago, Promidi said:

To implement a Theme editor for Sonar would require a complete rewrite .

i wonder what the devs are using? just hard-coding the current schemes?

[happen135]

2 hours ago, Promidi said:

CbB is bitmap based.  Sonar Free and Sonar Premium is vector based.

To implement a Theme editor for Sonar would require a complete rewrite .  

Maybe down the track, the adjustment of more colours can be made possible.  However, other than that, I do not see this as being a priority at this time.

As a DAW user, I don't think I can understand what a bitmap is and what a vector is. The colors nowadays are too unfriendly, with white being too bright and black being too dark. Poor thing about my aging eyes

[User 905133]

40 minutes ago, happen135 said:

As a DAW user, I don't think I can understand what a bitmap is and what a vector is. The colors nowadays are too unfriendly, with white being too bright and black being too dark. Poor thing about my aging eyes

This is one of the few things I like about AI. Ask Google, "what is the difference between bitmap graphics and vector graphics." and even if it's not 100% accurate down to the very detailed level, you can get a relatively quick answer that often has a reasonable "close enough" answer for people without expert knowledge looking for the gist of an answer.

Here's the first paragraph I got:

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Bitmap graphics, also known as raster graphics, are composed of a grid of pixels, each with a specific color, while vector graphics use mathematical equations to define lines, curves, and shapes. This fundamental difference leads to key distinctions in scalability, file size, and suitability for different types of images.  [from Google AI]

 

Edited 15 hours ago by User 905133
added a quote; fixed typos

[pedwal wally wally wha]

1 hour ago, happen135 said:

The colors nowadays are too unfriendly, with white being too bright and black being too dark.

looks great in a marketing image tho

[happen135]

10 hours ago, User 905133 said:

This is one of the few things I like about AI. Ask Google, "what is the difference between bitmap graphics and vector graphics." and even if it's not 100% accurate down to the very detailed level, you can get a relatively quick answer that often has a reasonable "close enough" answer for people without expert knowledge looking for the gist of an answer.

Here's the first paragraph I got:

 

Thank you for your reply. I am a user, not a developer. As for programming, it is the job of the development team. I am just making a suggestion to let Sonar consider the feelings of users and encourage more people to join the Sonar family

[happen135]

10 hours ago, pedwal wally wally wha said:

looks great in a marketing image tho

That's right, DAWs nowadays default to being completely black, which may be their main marketing strategy, but Cubase and others can be customized. We hope that Cake Walk can make adjustments to make it more user-friendly

[Canopus]

Considering that Microsoft always follows Apple design-wise, the recent presentation of Apple’s Liquid Glass, coming to all their platforms this autumn, will most likely mean that Microsoft soon will make similar changes to Windows. This leads me to believe that there is a GUI paradigm shift ahead, and that the current simplistic, flat look of so many DAWs and plugins will have to adapt, or otherwise soon look very dated.

Let’s hope that the architecture of Sonar’s vector-based design is flexible enough to meet the new modern.