garybrun
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Colouring Tracks - whats best?
Now that we have the ability to colour our tracks.... is there standard for what track colours should be?
Ie. Bass, guitar, drums etc.
The reason why I ask is that it would be easy to recognise any sonar Project and find Your way around if sharing via Gobbler.
I would also like to get into a routine of colouring my tracks and learn to stick With those colours.
Suggestions please.
Thanks
Gary
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Re: Colouring Tracks - whats best?
2013/10/06 09:39:13
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I would go with dull grey everywhere, or those without X3 won't be able to understand your colour scheme anyway. ;)
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Re: Colouring Tracks - whats best?
2013/10/06 09:41:10
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I'd stick with a personal routine. Definitely useful to do the same across projects but I don't think you'd get others to agree on a standard.
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joel77
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Re: Colouring Tracks - whats best?
2013/10/06 09:43:40
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Hey Gary,
I was wondering the same thing last night as I was playing with colors in X3. Probably not a standard through out the community, but curious what others are using.
Anyone care to share?
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icontakt
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Re: Colouring Tracks - whats best?
2013/10/06 09:48:13
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Electric guitars are definitely red.
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Skyline_UK
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Re: Colouring Tracks - whats best?
2013/10/06 09:50:13
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☄ Helpfulby joel77 2013/10/06 10:15:53
It's totally a personal thing but for me it's very useful to stick to a regime so you can go quickly to the right tracks(s).
I've always coloured my tracks and clips:
(B=background, F=foreground)
Drums and percussion - B red F white
Bass - B browns F yellow
Keyboards - B blues F white
Synths - B purples F white
Strings - B greens F dark blue
Brass - B yellows F dark blue
Vocals - B grey F purple
Rhythm guitars - B light pinks F blue
Lead guitars - B vibrant pinks F blue
Oh, and I usually sort them top to bottom:
- Drums
- Percussion
- Bass
- Keyboards
- Synths
- Guitars
- Strings
- Brass
- Vocals
I put all MIDI tracks in a MIDI folder, audio in an Audio folder and mixes in a Mixes folder.
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Re: Colouring Tracks - whats best?
2013/10/06 10:00:41
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Thanks Skyline_UK. Some of us have a reference now.
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Re: Colouring Tracks - whats best?
2013/10/06 10:06:39
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Skyline_UK
(B=background, F=foreground)
I personally don't use background colors to distinguish tracks/instruments (at least when I'm in the songwriting stage) because I use tons of linked clips in the project and want to give each linked clip group its own background color (so that I don't have to use Select All Siblings to know which group the clip belongs to).
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garybrun
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Re: Colouring Tracks - whats best?
2013/10/06 10:08:40
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Thanks skyline_uk
I will take a look at those.
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