I loaded up Cubase 6 for the first time last night and went into preferences to customize the view settings (grid darkness, etc.) and when I hit apply I was pretty surprised to see a dialog that said I had to restart cubase for the visual effects to change.
This wasn’t the way Cubase 5 was–you could see it right away and then tweak things if you didn’t like it–you could even hit apply and it would change in the background.
I didn’t change anything else. It was the visual settings that needed an app restart.
I saw the tutorials for the Mac and yes on the Mac it seems you can change this without a restart. But on Win7 x64 with Cubase 6 x64 I could not change any of the visual settings (grid, etc.) without restarting the app to see the changes take effect.
Probably because the preferences in the general tab are mostly useless.
The other tabs (which don’t need a restart) you’re more likely to adjust…window background I frequently change depending on mood & amount of ambient light but having tried out the general tab options after install I realise I have no real desire to set up my display to show a pink tinted mixer with extra bright buttons