probably a minor complaint but in c14 i had a dark purple-ish background, and this seems to no longer be possible?? im very confused on why the color slider only includes red, orange, green and light blue. Don’t get me wrong, i like the ui change but i’d also like to use (and edit) my previous color scheme, or something similar.
Cubase 15 ui colors also missing after reinstalling cubase to address a midiremote issue. CB is missing the “Apply” button that was in CB 14 and is also in the CB 15 documentation. Any ideas?
Any
I never even realized I could customize this ![]()
But it does appear that the color scheme slider only gives you like 2/3 of the range. The accent color slider provides the full range. Strange.
Pete
Microsoft
Yes, the appearance setting has become poorer compared to Cubase 14. It would be nice to return.
The new color adjustment feature in C15 is really rubbish. Not that it was much better in C14. Even then, users were restricted in their color selection, as only “proper” colors could be selected in the Color Picker, others were unavailable:
But there were still two advantages over the dreadful C15:
First, the values displayed (Hue/Saturation/Value or Red/Green/Blue) were (at least roughly) aligned with standardized color models (HSV, RGB). This allowed color values to be set and transferred in a comprehensible way.
Second, there was the color picker function (Ctrl+click on source color), which made it easy to read in existing colors.
But both of these features have now been eliminated in C15. Instead, there are now 2-3 bizarre sliders that show arbitrary end values and a scaling that has no connection to any known color model:
So, what’s the point? Why does anyone come up with such nonsense? Aren’t there more important things to do? This doesn’t add any value that makes the application better. This is the exact opposite. It’s a giant step back to kindergarten level!
Hi, @ASM
I was about to post a thread about the new C15 colors management, to point almost exactly to the same quirks. But I see that you summed all this quite well, already…
Will we ever get an user friendly colors management in Cubase ? ![]()
EDIT : @nova - I added complementary tags to your thread, so it could maybe get the necessary attention ; hope you don’t mind. ![]()
Hope springs eternal…
Picture this:
Someone in Steinberg’s management team happens to use Cubase privately for the first time.
Then, at some point he or she thinks, “Now I’ll just easily set the colors I like, dumdidumdidum…” ![]()
But immediately afterwards, “#!@*% - What a mess, that has to be changed tomorrow!” ![]()
And voilà, the next Cubase update will feature a great color setting!!!
???
Ok, ok, I see… ![]()
But well, can’t we still hope for a miracle, after all, Christmas is coming… ![]()
I regret the Update to Cubase 15 exactly because of that. Its terrible. Cubase dosent look good anymore. I am paying for a program so i want to have MY Colours. I fear too less people are complayning because of that. A made support ticket —-But no ANSWER
Is there ANY WORKAROUND FOR THAT ???
I just sent an email to support complaining about the drab colors on offer. Then I came here to the forum. I just prefer gray scale right now, the rest looks so bad. I’m trying to come back to Cubase, I have a Mac Studio now that can handle most anything I throw at it, so want to try Cubase again. I used the heck out of it starting in 1990.
Learned my “chops” on it. I just want to customize the colors more. I’ll just work gray (and somewhat depressed) until they address this. ![]()
I just installed version 14, yeah, there’s the background colors I want! It seems to point to all the 15 Content that I already installed with 15, so if you go back, don’t install the content again. 14 works with the 15 license. Further reading says that 14 is pretty darn stable, and people are having issues with 15, so maybe another reason to just stick with 14 for now until things with 15 get ironed out. And probably stick with OS 15 on Mac, and not go 26 yet.


