Sylvan
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About Color Customization in SONAR X3
I admit that I have never cared about color customization before. It made no difference to me whatsoever. However, after playing around with the way it is implemented in X3, I thinks it is pretty cool.
The way that changing the color of a bus also changes the color of tracks that are feeding it, very nice. The way the colors look and how easy it is to change them.
I now do care about this feature and am glad to have it now.
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Re: About Color Customization in SONAR X3
September 29, 13 8:43 PM
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I tried it - I do like the 'follow bus' coloring. Really helps with a lot of tracks.
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Re: About Color Customization in SONAR X3
September 29, 13 9:15 PM
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CAn we add icons the same way as colors "grouping tracks"....?
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Re: About Color Customization in SONAR X3
September 29, 13 10:26 PM
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Icons still work. It bums me out that the bus/track color palette doesn't seem to follow the color schema settings for Track 1-10 foreground though.
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Re: About Color Customization in SONAR X3
September 29, 13 11:09 PM
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Sylvan
I admit that I have never cared about color customization before. It made no difference to me whatsoever. However, after playing around with the way it is implemented in X3, I thinks it is pretty cool.
The way that changing the color of a bus also changes the color of tracks that are feeding it, very nice. The way the colors look and how easy it is to change them.
I now do care about this feature and am glad to have it now.
I agree, from the point of view that coloring was so wiggy in cubase and reason. very limited and convoluted. sonar is firmly 100 steps ahead of the game against those 2 daws.
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Zo
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Re: About Color Customization in SONAR X3
September 29, 13 11:11 PM
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My question was : can we add 10 same icons to 10 tracks at the same time ?
Sorry for not being clear ;)
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Re: About Color Customization in SONAR X3
September 29, 13 11:19 PM
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I tried to load multiple tracks with the same icon by quick grouping then holding ctrl while setting the icon. Sorry it only changes the one track not all the grouped tracks.
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Re: About Color Customization in SONAR X3
September 29, 13 11:37 PM
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 ok tom may i ask you some else : go on a PC ..insert an FX chain , put a plugin in , then set as default and tell me if it set the FX WITH the plugin in (on all PC) or only an Empty fx chain on all PC .?
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Re: About Color Customization in SONAR X3
September 30, 13 4:11 PM
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Can you finally make a decent light color scheme again? (Like in pre-X1 Sonars.)
I can't be the only one to dislike the current trend of dark colors in DAWs?
(Well, Sound on Sound's Mark Wherry does comment in a recent review that Logic Pro X is "incredibly dark"...)
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Re: About Color Customization in SONAR X3
September 30, 13 4:21 PM
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cyberzip
Can you finally make a decent light color scheme again? (Like in pre-X1 Sonars.)
I can't be the only one to dislike the current trend of dark colors in DAWs?
You can make tons of different color schemes with the color picker: http://blog.cakewalk.com/...e-Cusstom-Colors-1.jpg cyberzip
(Well, Sound on Sound's Mark Wherry does comment in a recent review that Logic Pro X is "incredibly dark"...)
I agree, I was at IMSTA this weekend and walked by the Logic room and I didn't think it was Logic at first. I thought it was some new DAW.
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stickman393
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Re: About Color Customization in SONAR X3
September 30, 13 4:42 PM
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Dan -
>> You can make tons of different color schemes with the color picker
I don't agree with your statement.
Sure, I can go into the Edit > Preferences > Colors , and use the color picker dialog to specify my color options for Tracks 1-10, but for the Foreground color *only*.
Additionally, there does not seem to be a way to select a track, and specify that it use the color schema for 'Tracks 2,12,22' (say). So apart from setting the default track colors (foreground only), there's no customization at all.
I know about changing existing clip colors explicitly through the Inspector - but that does not set the color for newly recorded clips.
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Re: About Color Customization in SONAR X3
September 30, 13 4:51 PM
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Tom Riggs
I tried to load multiple tracks with the same icon by quick grouping then holding ctrl while setting the icon. Sorry it only changes the one track not all the grouped tracks.
I actually put a feature request for this some time ago. I used to use the coloured blocks and wanted to be able to colour a group of tracks with quick grouping. I never got a response but, I hoped it had been implemented.
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Re: About Color Customization in SONAR X3
October 03, 13 6:06 PM
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Dan Gonzalez [Cakewalk]
You can make tons of different color schemes with the color picker:
http://blog.cakewalk.com/...e-Cusstom-Colors-1.jpg
The problem was never the color picker, but that (starting in X1) many parts of the track view were (and still are in X3?) locked to dark colors and not customizable. I certainly don't mean to be negative, but the trend in DAWs seem to be forcing users to towards darker interfaces, even though light backgrounds are recommended by usage experience researchers. :)
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Re: About Color Customization in SONAR X3
October 03, 13 6:36 PM
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Sylvan
I admit that I have never cared about color customization before. It made no difference to me whatsoever. However, after playing around with the way it is implemented in X3, I thinks it is pretty cool.
The way that changing the color of a bus also changes the color of tracks that are feeding it, very nice. The way the colors look and how easy it is to change them.
I now do care about this feature and am glad to have it now.
Couldn't agree more. I think of it as a very creative use of color. Useful in denoting what is what. Here is one neat idea that PT has that I did like about it. Now we have it and its very well implemented. I've already used it to identify my drum tracks and buss.
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spacey
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Re: About Color Customization in SONAR X3
October 03, 13 6:53 PM
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Same here. Colors never really mattered to me but I'm sure enjoying them now.
It's not the only thing though...X3a and the team are sure shining. Aces.
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Re: About Color Customization in SONAR X3
October 03, 13 7:34 PM
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spacey
Same here. Colors never really mattered to me but I'm sure enjoying them now.
It's not the only thing though...X3a and the team are sure shining. Aces.
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Seth [DAWGURU]
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Re: About Color Customization in SONAR X3
October 04, 13 6:17 AM
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post edited by Seth [DAWGURU] - October 04, 13 7:08 AM
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