FidelityMusic
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Clip Color - What's Your Preference?
Just thought I'd bring this topic up again, being that we're using Sonar 2015 now. I'm not a long time Sonar user so I'm not talking from my experience with Sonar, but I enjoy the way clips are colored in a number of other DAW's, along with how they used to be colored in Sonar. How many of you prefer the way clips were colored in the past? How many of you enjoy the way they are colored now?  Is there any chance of this coming back by default or as an option? (For those ready to comment about Clip Properties, just don't. I'm not talking about workarounds, manually changing clips colors, etc.)
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Re: Clip Color - What's Your Preference?
2015/03/08 06:02:53
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I believe that clip colors or any other colors are a personal preference.
Everyone has their own color preference.
What is great for you is an eye sore for another.
Good luck with your thread though.
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FidelityMusic
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Re: Clip Color - What's Your Preference?
2015/03/08 06:16:38
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cowboydan
I believe that clip colors or any other colors are a personal preference.
Everyone has their own color preference.
What is great for you is an eye sore for another.
Good luck with your thread though.
Of course it's a personal preference, that's why the title says "What's Your Preference?".
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stevec
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Re: Clip Color - What's Your Preference?
2015/03/08 13:32:42
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I knew something looked different about that picture... it's SONAR X1. Not sure why you used that as an example?
FWIW, my clip colors are usually a little brighter than that, though certainly not day-glo/neon, and typically based on track strip color.
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Re: Clip Color - What's Your Preference?
2015/03/08 13:47:47
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stevec
I knew something looked different about that picture... it's SONAR X1. Not sure why you used that as an example?
From my understanding Sonar X1 was the last version of Sonar to color clip backgrounds by default. Didn't Sonar X2 introduce the new colored waveform with a black background by default?
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Re: Clip Color - What's Your Preference?
2015/03/08 14:01:51
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Hiya
Yes I like the old clip colours thats why I still use Sonar X1. I have X2 and X3 but it takes too long to change each track clips colour.
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Re: Clip Color - What's Your Preference?
2015/03/08 14:42:47
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The most important aspect of clip colours is clarity. I'm a fan of black waveform/coloured background, but I bit the bullet and embraced the X2/X3 style, and I've become used to it.
I think it helps if you change the clip pane background to a light grey. At first everything looks like a negative but as soon as you get used to it, it's all good.
I do tweak the colour palette, though. I would love it of those color presets could be edited.
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Re: Clip Color - What's Your Preference?
2015/03/08 20:22:12
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my clip group colors
B Blue - Bass
V Violet - Vocals
G Green - Guitars
S Silver - Synths
P Red(pink)- Percussion
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stevec
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Re: Clip Color - What's Your Preference?
2015/03/09 01:07:36
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I think what I don't like about the "color on color" scheme shown in X1 is that it just sort of looks faded to me. I prefer more contrast, even color against black.   " />
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Re: Clip Color - What's Your Preference?
2015/03/09 01:11:33
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In the track view, where you set the colour, it only give that colour to the first edge, then dulls in down for the rest. I wish there was a control over how much it dulls. I would prefere it to be a light more colourful
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FidelityMusic
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Re: Clip Color - What's Your Preference?
2015/03/09 02:14:58
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stevec
I think what I don't like about the "color on color" scheme shown in X1 is that it just sort of looks faded to me. I prefer more contrast, even color against black.
I agree it does look faded, probably not the best example. The way Studio One, Cubase, Digital Performer, and Pro Tools handle it makes the waveform much more distinguishable, that's probably the better example. 
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Re: Clip Color - What's Your Preference?
2015/03/09 09:22:21
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I am using X3 and just go with the default colors. I don't want to spend the time to customize what I have, just to have it change in the next version. I do ok with it, but really liked the old (Sonar 6) brighter color schemes, if I remember correctly.
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Re: Clip Color - What's Your Preference?
2015/03/09 10:34:23
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Didn't think there would be a next version, just an evolving one. I have customised the colours on mine. I'd like a bit more control over that. I liked the thred from the past where people posted pics of the schemes, and even shared their colour files. Added a nice vibe to the community
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Re: Clip Color - What's Your Preference?
2015/03/09 22:20:27
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Yeah, I'm all for enhancement the color customization we currently have. Feature request it?
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Re: Clip Color - What's Your Preference?
2015/03/11 17:33:05
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I like the colors to quickly identify things in large projects.
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