How can I make my own theme colors for Cakewalk Sonar Free?

[Lukasz]

How can I make my own theme colors for Cakewalk Sonar Free?

[Mr No Name]

[Bristol_Jonesey]

Preferences > Customization > Colors

Select the area you want to change from Color Category dropdown.

[Bass Guitar]

I found the most useful thing that they kept is the saturation slider. 
Play with that and it helps a lot. 
 

[Lukasz]

I think there is a bug whatever I do to change the color doesn't change color I put everything in red as you can see and I clicked apply 

Edited Saturday at 04:03 PM by Lukasz

[Bass Guitar]

If you do that what does a project look like. That screenshot is only showing a menu dialogue 

[Lukasz]

It looks like this 

[Bristol_Jonesey]

1 hour ago, Lukasz said:

It looks like this 

Your midi notes are displaying as red.

What did you expect to see?

[Lukasz]

I wanted to change colors of the interface black and red text of fonts

[Bristol_Jonesey]

2 minutes ago, Lukasz said:

I wanted to change colors of the interface black and red text of fonts

You're out of luck.

The best you can do is change the track header

This will also change the colours of the events in the tracks

[Lukasz]

Its fine then I will use the themes they provided,   I wish i could change the interfaces colors, hope they add it to free  Sonar

Edited Saturday at 08:59 PM by Lukasz

[gmp]

From what I hear they are working on a real Theme editor like we had in CbB and Platinum. This will be a game changer.  I hope it happens soon

[AB99]

Yes.  They posted about working on a theme editor.  It is probably a super major update and therefore they have to be careful not to mess up with the audio portion.  So, yes, I hope it is soon, but I also hope they take their time to get it right!

Edited 6 hours ago by AB99

[Colin Nicholls]

Okay this thread needs a reality check. There is no promise of a full-featured "Theme Editor" coming any time soon.

We have, however, been given the following:

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Color customization

We are in the process of refining our existing themes and bringing new color theme customization capabilities. We look forward to posting more about this soon!

"color theme customization capabilities" could refer to many things, any of which are not near the functionality of a "theme editor". 

[AB99]

2 hours ago, Colin Nicholls said:

Okay this thread needs a reality check. There is no promise of a full-featured "Theme Editor" coming any time soon.

We have, however, been given the following:

"color theme customization capabilities" could refer to many things, any of which are not near the functionality of a "theme editor". 

This is in the quote:  "new color theme customization capabilities."  I think we are talking about semantics here.  The Bakers know what is wanted.  Either we can make changes to get colors and contrasts that are desired for a better workflow, or we can't.  At this point, I trust the Bakers.  I have been with them for a long journey!

And the fact that they are not rushing it, is also a good sign imho.

BTW, even a so-called "theme editor" as a title, does not mean all elements of a theme can be edited.  

[Colin Nicholls]

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I think we are talking about semantics here.

Well, of course it is semantics. "Theme Editor" has a very specific meaning, given that we already have an understanding of what a "Theme Editor" would be expected to look and function like, thanks to the precedent set by the existing Cakewalk by Bandlab Theme Editor.

Knowing that the coming "color customization" feature cannot possibly match those features is exactly why we shouldn't use the term "Theme Editor" for it, in my opinion.

Of course I'm looking forward to the color customizations in later versions of Sonar, but also be mindful of how we refer to them.