The Maillard Reaction
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Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip? Or is it just the color of the waveform?
In other words can I set all the wave forms to the same dark color like black and then have each clips' background set as the color I enjoy or do I only get to change the color of the waveform while the background stays some pre defined color?
Thanks.
best regards,
mike
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/28 17:33:28
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I tried the color changes and they flopped. Some worked and some didn't, much like it was on 2a. Perhaps I got it wrong and need to try again, but I still like the Duckbar program more.
Regards, John I want to make it clear that I am an Eedjit. I have no direct, or indirect, knowledge of business, the music industry, forum threads or the meaning of life. I know about amps. WIN 10 Pro X64, I7-3770k 16 gigs, ASUS Z77 pro, AMD 7950 3 gig, Steinberg UR44, A-Pro 500, Sonar Platinum, KRK Rokit 6
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/28 17:48:16
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I just watched a video about color customization suggesting that the track view "header backgrounds", console view "strip backgrounds", and "waveforms" can all be synced to the same color. I assumed it was speaking about X3.
I don't want to change the "header backgrounds" or the "strip backgrounds" or the "waveform" colors ( that's what you do in Pro Tools but I find it distracting, perhaps even gratuitous ) I just want to change the actual clip back ground colors like I've done with SONAR for years and years.
I want to have all my waveforms the same color so my mind can see them as a stacked meter on the vertical axis. Having waveforms separated into different colors looks cute... but it doesn't mind meld the way it does for me in SONAR 8.5.
It seems like Cakewalk copied one of Pro Tools less sophisticated features and has not restored the color tools flexibility to a point where it matches the sophistication of SONAR 8.5 or earlier.
I hope I am wrong and just need to learn more about the new features.
best regards,
mike
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 11:50:58
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mike_mccue
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It seems like Cakewalk copied one of Pro Tools less sophisticated features and has not restored the color tools flexibility to a point where it matches the sophistication of SONAR 8.5 or earlier.
I hope I am wrong and just need to learn more about the new features.
best regards,
mike
I'm lost! As usual!  So, now, Cakewalk is about the colors and not the sound the program can help you put together? I have to tell you I REALLY needed a program to do photos with, and Photoshop has priced itself out of reality! I wonder if I use color, my bass will sound better ... still looking for that sound (Caravan - For Girls that Grow Plump in the Night) ... but never thought it was a color! Hawkwind's 8th, 9th and 10th cuts on "Electric Tepee" is also good for a sound I like ... but I never thought of color!
As a wise Guy once stated from his holy chapala ... none of the hits, none of the time ... prevents you from becoming just another turkey in the middle of all the other turkeys!
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Just Another Bloke
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 12:30:17
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Music IS color.
We are a visual species.
If we weren't we'd all be looking at Cyan based screens like in the 80s.
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 13:20:58
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The Bapu
Music IS color.
Wow, that's deep.
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Just Another Bloke
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 13:53:13
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SteveStrummerUK
The Bapu
Music IS color.
Wow, that's deep.
Well........
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 13:54:55
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The Bapu
The Bapu
Music IS color.
Straummy
Wow, that's deep.
Well........
I yam a bazz player (or am I?)
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 14:19:06
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☄ Helpfulby The Bapu 2013/09/29 14:20:57
The Bapu
The Bapu
The Bapu
Music IS color.
Straummy
Wow, that's deep.
Well........
I yam a bazz player
(or am I?)
You are talking to yourself again Bobby mate 
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bapu
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 14:23:48
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SteveStrummerUK
The Bapu
The Bapu
The Bapu
Music IS color.
Straummy
Wow, that's deep.
Well........
I yam a bazz player
(or am I?)
You are talking to yourself again Bobby mate
Not any more.......
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The Coffee House Band
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 14:29:18
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bapu
SteveStrummerUK
The Bapu
The Bapu
The Bapu
Music IS color.
Straummy
Wow, that's deep.
Well........
I yam a bazz player
(or am I?)
You are talking to yourself again Bobby mate
Not any more.......
Are you sure?
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Straummy
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 14:29:40
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The Coffee House Band
bapu
SteveStrummerUK
The Bapu
The Bapu
The Bapu
Music IS color.
Straummy
Wow, that's deep.
Well........
I yam a bazz player
(or am I?)
You are talking to yourself again Bobby mate
Not any more.......
Are you sure?
No he's not.
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bapu
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 14:31:16
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Straummy
The Coffee House Band
bapu
SteveStrummerUK
The Bapu
The Bapu
The Bapu
Music IS color.
Straummy
Wow, that's deep.
Well........
I yam a bazz player
(or am I?)
You are talking to yourself again Bobby mate
Not any more.......
Are you sure?
No he's not.
But Shirley he has a Shure.
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SteveStrummerUK
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 14:32:04
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bapu
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 14:32:52
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All is well then
(deep, ain't it?)
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Straummy
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 14:36:04
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SteveStrummerUK
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 14:36:06
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Straummy
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 14:40:38
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 18:22:39
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Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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bapu
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 18:26:49
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craigb
So what color is Am?
Annoying?
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 18:31:09
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FWIW, I think of music as ephemeral sculpture that you can experience as a form of environmental immersion.
best regards,
mike
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 18:35:50
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mike_mccue
FWIW, I think of music as ephemeral sculpture that you can experience as a form of environmental immersion.
best regards,
mike
Pedro is rubbing off on you McQ. Or maybe you have multiple logins?
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 18:41:08
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I think Mosh and I speak about stuff differently but actually have more in common than it seems.
I imagine that the difference we do have is that I think that disciplined competency leads to moments of creative flow and Mosh seems to tap into flow using a different worm hole.
I'll bet I'd enjoy drinking coffee and chatting it up with Mosh and we'd figure out all the stuff we have in common. :-)
I'd probably figure out what his favorite color is too. :-)
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bapu
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 18:44:31
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mike_mccue
I'd probably figure out what his favorite color is too. :-)
Obtuse? 
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 18:51:36
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mike_mccue
Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip? Or is it just the color of the waveform?
In other words can I set all the wave forms to the same dark color like black and then have each clips' background set as the color I enjoy or do I only get to change the color of the waveform while the background stays some pre defined color?
Thanks.
best regards,
mike
I believe in X2a I was able to change the background color of a clip. I just never saw a "global" color setting clip backgrounds so I think it was on a track by track on a project basis. In X3 I can only seem to do that. Unless they name global clip background color something obtuse. HTH.
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soens
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 18:56:53
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The Bapu
Music IS color.
We are a visual species.
If we weren't we'd all be looking at Cyan based screens like in the 80s.
Yeah! The 80s were SO unvisual, eh? 
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soens
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 19:01:02
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btw, I know you can still change the colors as before. Just poke around abit and you'll see it somewhere.
You can also IMPORT a colorset from X2 or before and see what changes.
(soory, no can help better. no have x3 yet.)
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 19:12:45
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 19:19:35
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☄ Helpfulby bapu 2013/09/29 19:38:04
In X2, you can select a different background colour for every track in multiples of 10; i.e. whatever colour you choose for Track 1 will be repeated on Tracks 11, 21 etc:  You can do exactly the same for the foreground (i.e. the waveform) in the same way. In X2, my colour scheme (to aid my poor contrast eyesight) was to have dark blue as the foreground colour for all tracks, pale yellow for the background of unselected tracks, and light blue as the background for the selected track:  As far as I can tell in X3, although you can still choose the foreground colours as in X2, the background colour of unselected tracks cannot be changed, there is only the option to choose the background colour for the selected track:  Carrying on with my high contrast theme, I currently have the selected clip set to a rather garish red, which does seem to work OK: 
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Re: Custom Color? Can you change the background color of a clip?
2013/09/29 19:31:24
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soens
You can also IMPORT a colorset from X2 or before and see what changes.
Do you know where the colour presets are stored? I was going to try and import my X2 scheme but I'm buggered if I can find where they are.
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