I just upgraded from Cubase 12 to Cubase 14, and I ran into a small but annoying issue right away.
After customizing my color palette, I noticed that the top menu bar stays black, no matter what I do. I’m trying to get it to match the rest of my UI. From what I understand, this might be related to the Windows “dark/light” mode settings. And my Windows settings are: Windows Mode: Dark App Mode: Light
There’s nowhere a setting to change the top menu bar to “light” it within Cubase, so it’s just stuck in black contradicting the rest of my customized UI colors. This was never a problem for me in C12 - the top menu bar was always light. Does anyone know a workaround?
In a way, this is according to Windows guidelines, but the real problem is that Cubase completely ignores the dark and light mode settings in Windows, so as with other apps, if you chose dark, the title bar should be dark, if you chose light, the title bar would be light. Dark/light mode support is sadly completely missing in Cubase, and I cannot quite get over the fact that Steinberg chose to (more or less) massively redesign and re-implement the UI since C13 and ignored mode support…
But then even Microsoft ignores those color and mode setting in several of its own apps…
I think OP meant the windows title bar (at least that is how I understood it, the “top menu bar”).
Edit: is that really your color scheme? Each to his own, but for me that would count as “Augenkrebs”
@Martin.Jirsak Windows 10, 22H2, build 19045.5737, Nvidia 4080, no extensions.
@fese Yes, I was referring to the Windows title bar. And you’re absolutely right about the way to get rid of the black color. Changing the accent color did switch the title bar in C14 from black to “something lighter.”
Unfortunately, though, Windows doesn’t accept really light colors - it says “this color is not supported” and picks the closest approximation, which is usually some shade of gray.
So while this is definitely an improvement over the black title bar in the customized GUI, it’s still not the solution. As you mentioned, it seems like C14 doesn’t support true light/dark mode.
It’s a bit strange, honestly - after all the work that went into the GUI redesign post-C13, this feels like a pretty important customization functionality.
@Johnny_Moneto Yes, if it’s done through ‘accent colors’ of Windows, I can see how this works for you. But I have a calmer color palette, where light color of the title bar sits much better with the rest of my customized color GUI vs black title bar.
Each to his own, but for me that would count as “Augenkrebs” 