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If you choose one of the preset gray colors, it makes the green play button for the arrangement feature invisible/low contrast. Intentional? There’s a button hidden there. Can you see it?
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If you choose a project area background color that is too similar to the track color, the automation becomes hard to read/low contrast.
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A few buttons in v14 now use a light gray to communicate “activated” and “on”. The use of a gray for buttons is a common design pattern intended to communicate deactivated. So this goes against common understanding and can be misunderstood as “deactivated”. Another user confirmed that he thought at some point it was deactivated. This also doesn’t match anything else inthe UI system.
So I disagree with you that this is all intentional. It’s likely all an accident. I use the word random in reference to some of their UI decisions may not be based on contemporary research or thorough testing (some of these decisions are very old and old fashioned).
All of this could be resolved with the Reaper approach but it can also be resolved with the Ableton Live/Studio One approach.