Please forgive me if what I say may be a little off the point of this discussion.
The DAW software that I admired when I was a student was Cubase 4. The bright blue GUI featured in the pamphlet was out of my league.
Now that I’m an adult, I was finally able to buy Cubase, and Cubase’s dark side color tone was the default.
So, I went back in my memory and adjusted the settings to the limit to bring back the Cubase 4 design as much as possible. It is this!
Mr. Steinberg, if possible, please support saving partial theme presets so that we can change not only the overall setting preset, but only the visual theme color.
At the same time, please support the circle of fifths notation for chord tracks as well as the circle of fourths notation that jazz and popular musicians prefer.
I like that scheme. While I could turn to the light background in the picture (which I like, AND I understand is not everybody’s cup of tea, actually most flat-out hate it), the problem is that I have a mixconsole open all the time right next screen which is sooooo dark that it gouges my eyes out, in contrast.
So I’ve temporarily settled for a general dark blue, and see how it goes, eventually, hopefully.
Oh my, it seems that such GUI in cu 13 is more of a better match with Cubase 4 / 5 color scheme.
I am not kidding, it is really softer to my eyes than the original one.
It’s strange for me to say this as someone who uses bright settings, but I would like to mention one element that you may not be aware of.
In Cubase 13, if you brighten the color settings on the project screen beyond a certain level, the white icons will be reversed to black. (like this image)
If you make good use of this, you may be able to escape from the unwelcome white and dazzling letters.
I agree Sebastian, this is my current interface, I’m OK with mute earth colors, however, I prefer the so-called ‘dark’ interfaces line Blender & DaVinci Resolve have.
I always make everything dark/colorful, so the new GUI is great for me. And I use 3 different monitors of different sizes, so again, it works great for me. It does look a little flat, but I honestly couldn’t care less. I’m one of those weirdos who wants to see everything and have nothing hidden, so this new setup works great for me. But I could see why it would irritate the crap out of others.
I quite like the tones i have , once you get to grips with setting the background colours you can achieve quite a bit , but … you know what’s coming , it’s those pesky f(*&&^& CaP’s
Ack - Putting aside the aesthetics of the UI (which fwiw I think looks ugly and unrefined compared to C12) Cubase 13 just really hurts my eyes to work with. I use this program day in day out for hours at a time and I just cannot put up with this discomfort so don’t think I’ll be using this version. I guess I just have to hope and pray for a big turnaround in CB14 but for the first time in a couple of decades (I started on Atari, moved through SX etc) I feel really saddened by what my DAW of choice has become.
Agreed. The GUI in 12 looked much better for me. And no it’s not getting used to, it was much easier on the eyes. Maybe it looks better on 4k monitors?
Someone posted this image of the C13 mixer on the VI-Control forum. Has anyone been able to achieve this look? If so, what settings did you use? Cheers…
