X3 colour question....

Is there a way to globally untick the Use Track Colours box in the clip properties inspector for all tracks so that the audio wave form in the clips does not change colour when the bus / track colour is altered ?

Jlien X
Hit Ctrl+A in the Clips pane (which selects all tracks) and then untick the Use Track Colors box, no?

Thanks for the suggestion, but no, that doesn't work, it only does the "in focus" / highlighted track.

So are you saying that if you Select All and then untick the Use Tracks Colour box on one track that it unticks the box on all the other tracks too ? That's not happening here, it only unticks the one track that has the inspector open.
 
What I want to do is to be able to have the track colour follow the bus colour, which is easy enough, but I don't want the waveforms in the tracks to change to that colour too. I can do this on an individual track basis by unticking the box on each track, but I would like to be able to apply this to all tracks at once or even better in a global setting kind of way way so that it will apply to every project.

Ok, so, here I loaded the Normal project template, and deleted the MIDI track and added some audio tracks, then dragged some audio clips from the Browser into the tracks. At this stage, all clips' Use Track Colors boxes are enabled (by default). The screenshot below shows the Use Track Colors box of the clip in Track 4 that I have selected.

 
 
 
Next, without doing anything to the Clip Inspector of the clip in Track 4, I just move the focus to the 1st track and then hit Ctrl+A, which selects all clips and tracks like this:



 
Then, if I untick the Use Track Colors box, all clips selected changes its foreground color (waveform) to match the foreground color of the clip in the 1st track (btw, this shouldn't happen, and CW has already confirmed this bug), like this:



 
Finally, even if I change the strip color of all the tracks, it doesn't affect any of the clips.



 
You can change the clip foreground and background colors to whatever colors you like, and changing the strip colors doesn't affect the clip colors at all.



 
 
Hope that helps

Hey Paulo!
 
http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation/default.aspx?Doc=SONAR%20X3&Lang=EN&Req=Playback.34.html
 

By default, tracks follow the color of the bus they are assigned to. If you do not want to assign a custom color or follow the bus color, click and hold down the Follow Bus button, then select Default on the pop-up menu.

 

If you do not want tracks to inherit bus colors, go to Edit > Preferences > Customization - Colors and click the Track Defaults button, then click and hold down the Follow Bus button and select Default on the pop-up menu. You can also configure individual tracks to ignore bus colors (see To select a track color).

Does each clip have to have the "clip name stripe" along the top or can you view waveform drawings adjacent to each other with out the visual separation and loss of display space?

mike_mccue
Does each clip have to have the "clip name stripe" along the top or can you view waveform drawings adjacent to each other with out the visual separation and loss of display space?

 
The clip headers can be hidden.

Jlien X
Paulo, did you try what I did in my previous post by using the Normal project template? Also, what version are you using? Producer?

No, I was just opening a Sonar demo project with all the tracks/clips already in it.  I've just tried creating a new one as you did with random audio dragged from media library and in that I can reproduce what you did where all the waveforms become the same colour, but only after I change the colour of the highlighhted track waveform and I can then go back and change the others individually and as you say altering the track colour then does not affect the waveform. That is a workaround of sorts I guess, but something I would have to do for every project which is a bit tiresome.
 
What I was really hoping for was a way to make ignoring track colours the default mode for X3 (X3d producer btw) so that it just takes the waveform colours from the inbuilt default settings. A set it and forget it type option .
 
Thanks again for sticking with it - much appeciated. 

gswitz
Sorry for answering without understanding, Paulo. I got nothing. :-(

No worries, thanks for trying ! :)