Black is not black

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2015/10/22 13:06:41 (permalink)

Black is not black

Hello,
 
is it only me or also other Sonar users think, that the default Track color is "more black" than "black" color of a new track?
 
See the image:
[img=http://s1.postimg.org/segwou6i3/sonar_color.jpg]
 
No.1 is a default track color - black in TV bud ugly gray in CV
No.2 is a track with black color selected from the palette. Dark gray in TV and the same color in CV.
 
Why we cannot have a real black in both TV and CV? Why is the default color different in CV and TV???
 
Please polish this :).
 
Thanks
Marek

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    Adq
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    Re: Black is not black 2015/10/22 23:46:56 (permalink)
    That is because Sonar's GUI designers are professionals, and they know better than you and other users, what design and colors everybody needs. That's why you are strongly limited with color options you have. Don't you see that colors are ideal, and never can be improved?
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    Re: Black is not black 2015/10/22 23:54:51 (permalink)
    I think we need to have a HUGE conversation on what sort of blacks are acceptable and what are not. Colour? Nope you've lost me ;).

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    Re: Black is not black 2015/10/23 08:30:17 (permalink)
    Colors will be always a matter of choice/taste and no one will be ever happy with a default look. But I know that developers in CW are good enough to implement such a GUI where we could change colors to our taste.
     
    In case of track strips I see the current limitation in the "db scale" next to the fader. It has a fixed color (ugly gray) and it may get easily lost if the background is too dark.
     

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    Re: Black is not black 2015/10/23 08:35:38 (permalink)
     
    "Cold hearted orb
    That rules the night
    Removes the colours
    From our sight
    Red is gray and
    Yellow white
    But we decide
    Which is right
    And
    Which is an Illusion"

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    Re: Black is not black 2015/10/23 09:04:47 (permalink)
    It's the Spinal Tap Black - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46kXH6GGtT0
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    Re: Black is not black 2015/10/23 09:09:29 (permalink)
    x series gui also no longer supports high contrast or the windows screen reader thing for vision-impaired users (or has that been corrected since x1?)

    just a sec

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    Re: Black is not black 2015/10/23 10:29:09 (permalink)
    I thought I heard somewhere that "orange is the new black".
     

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    Re: Black is not black 2015/10/23 10:36:16 (permalink)
    orangesporanges
    I thought I heard somewhere that "orange is the new black". 


    Only for amps..

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    Re: Black is not black 2015/10/23 11:16:18 (permalink)
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    orangesporanges
    I thought I heard somewhere that "orange is the new black". 


    Only for amps..

    Now you're just being voltist.......

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    Re: Black is not black 2015/10/23 11:25:36 (permalink)
    I'm more AC/DC.

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    Re: Black is not black 2015/10/23 16:00:37 (permalink)
    I know we're hijacking this thread, but if a thread ever needed it...
    Dark Terror from Orange is a little beast. If I didn't have too many amps already, I'd get one of those lunch box amps. So many good ones out there. But that one is vicious! It only has two flavors : 1)meteorite crushes you to death or,
    2) drag you around the parking lot by your shoelace. 

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    Re: Black is not black 2015/10/23 16:13:08 (permalink)
    Yeah I was looking at one of them a while ago.
     
    15W is just too damned loud in my little room. I eventually went for a Hughes & Kettner Tubemeister 5 head.
    I already have a Blackstar HT5 mini stack and the 2 complement each other really well.
     
    I prefer the crunch channel of the B/Star but the H&K clean channel is awesome

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    Re: Black is not black 2015/10/23 16:20:49 (permalink)
    I built my own Marshall 1974 18 watt 2x10 combo. Yeah, it's not a bedroom amp but I'll take that over anything (including a real Marshall) on the market today.
    post edited by kevinwal - 2015/10/23 16:31:09
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    Re: Black is not black 2016/06/26 15:20:06 (permalink)

    BLACK IS BLACK!!!!..(i WANT MY BABY BACK)


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