well, seriously i think that it’s not really of any high relevance which theme is the default one as the user is able to customize / switch it within seconds.
Pick a stylish theme that makes you go !!WOW!!. Later on users might wanna change to a different theme for various reasons.
And for that “in your face” effect I think a brighter theme is best. For some reason dark themes reminds (me atleast) of ft2 and DOS…
DefaultTheme.xml from 1.26 is very nice. (Can’t find it in 1.27)
What about a grey/green theme Just like in those good old ‘soundtracker’ years I’ve personnaly turned it into those colors ! héhé
i’ve set my renoise with vintage.xml which reminds me IT colors