.Sigh… I think I’m over the initial shock now. That was quite something.
I guess there’s no way you could be convinced to make the button roundness setting also apply to all the things on track headers, mixer strips, and the rack…? I understand the implications it would have.
@Zynewave wrote:
I’d appreciate your feedback on the new design.
Are you sure?
Well then, time to put on your graphic designer flame suit, Frits! I hope it has rounded corners. 
– I find it weird that buttons on track headers, mixer strips, and in the rack don’t have (noticable) shadows anymore, whereas all other buttons still do. Personally, I liked it better with shadows, as in 2.35.
– What happened to the frame on mixer strips!? 🙁 Personally, I don’t care whether the selector buttons overlap the frame, or the frame overlaps them – I don’t want to have to look at the top of mixer strips every time to see which one is selected. Besides, it looked really neat. 😉
– I don’t like how the group level color strips are so distinctly separate from the track headers now. I much, much prefer the 2.35 look.
– I don’t like that the space between the input/source selectors and effects is gone.
– It’s funny that the gain/pan fields now always use that small font, even though you said before that better readability compared to the small font on faders was one of the fields’ main advantages. 😉
– I think a logical consequence of mixer strip resizing is that the BSMR buttons should just be centered when they are drawn on top of the meters. I’d say this should also happen on MIDI tracks (that have no meters).
– There’s some space wasted where the B button usually is. Maybe this space could be reclaimed when you don’t actually have a track visible on which bouncing is enabled. If there is one, it would push down the SMR buttons so they’re aligned again on all tracks.
– With the line separating the name and selector buttons on track headers gone now, I think it’d look better if the whole header was colored with the selection color again whenever it’s small enough so that the input, source, etc. buttons aren’t visible. Incidentally, since the separator is gone, there’s no indication of where you can drop things, so would it be possible to change it so that devices can be dropped anywhere on track headers?
– I think hiding the handles in the zPEQ editor miniature when reaching a certain zoom level would be worthwhile. That way you could at least see the EQ curve (you can’t reasonably edit it anyway using that tiny editor).
– Have you ever thought about using dials for pan again? It’s just easier to see, and definitely easier to adjust values on small strips. Unless everyone hates dials. 🙂
– About moving the glass slider option away from color settings… I think it’s something that is more closely related to color setups. This is a really minor thing, though.
Looks like my design preferences just differ greatly from yours sometimes. I apologize for all the bitching. Possibly more to come as I notice things, though 😛
