igiwigi
Max Output Level: -82 dBFS
- Total Posts : 437
- Joined: 2011/04/20 03:37:52
- Status: offline
Colour Themes Overkill
Hi to All I have been playing with some of the themes provided on this forum which I am grateful for to try. No matter how I re-arrange the colours through different themes Murcury always comes out best to me as It has lighter background and much easier on the eye and I like the blue buttons that light up. With the Murcury you can colour your tracks and nothing clashes In your face as It looks nice and pastelly. If you put themes In, red green etc,after making track and mixer colours the whole thing looks like a Mondreon and a multi-colur headache Tungsten Is nice ,but I do not like the orange buttons and much prefer the blue In Murcury,as It looks more professional. Oh well that is my opinion only and I think that the whole thing of the theme editor is a waste of time really like that mastering company that sits In our daw. All the best John 
post edited by igiwigi - 2016/08/16 06:05:55
|
Rob[at]Sound-Rehab
Max Output Level: -47 dBFS
- Total Posts : 2819
- Joined: 2011/02/03 04:31:35
- Location: Sound-Rehab, Austria
- Status: offline
Re: Colour Themes Overkill
2016/08/16 06:10:47
(permalink)
igiwigi
Tungsten Is nice ,but I do not like the orange buttons and much prefer the blue In Murcury,as It looks more professional.
Oh well that is my opinion only and I think that the whole thing of the theme editor is a waste of time really like that mastering company that sits In our daw.
don't quite agree. I really like the ability to change some buttons to make them stick out from the rest (e.g. punch-in, offset mode engaged) which sometimes cause "unexpected" behaviour that's hard to figure why ... yet, I don't see myself using the theme editor more than a few times a year ...
GOOD TUNES LAST FOREVER +++ Visit the Rehab +++ DAW: Platinum/X3e, win10 64 bit, i7-3930K (6x3.2GHz), Asus Sabertooth X79, 32 GB DDR3 1600MHz, ATI HD 5450, 120 GB SSD OCZ Agility3, 2x 1TB WD HDD SATA 600 Audio-Interface: 2x MOTU 1248 AVB, Focusrite OctoPre, (Roland Octa-Capture) Control-Surface: VS-700C VSTi: WAVES, NI K10u, FabFilter, IK, ... (too many really)
|
BobF
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 8124
- Joined: 2003/11/05 18:43:11
- Location: Missouri - USA
- Status: offline
Re: Colour Themes Overkill
2016/08/16 08:21:55
(permalink)
I agree to a point. It's a shame that Mercury-based themes lose strip shading. Hopefully that will change. IMO we're just seeing the beginning with Theme Editor (TE). The really interesting stuff will be new themes built from the ground up, based on completely different images. Changing button colors is interesting, but minor compared to the full potential. Unfortunately I don't have the graphic skills or the time to invest building those skills. In my way of thinking, changing object colors should be able to be done by any user with a right-click-choose color option instead of needing a full blown editor. Who knows where it will end up. Thankfully I have until Dec '37 to see what develops
Bob -- Angels are crying because truth has died ...Illegitimi non carborundum --Studio One Pro / i7-6700@3.80GHZ, 32GB Win 10 Pro x64 Roland FA06, LX61+, Fishman Tripleplay, FaderPort, US-16x08 + ARC2.5/Event PS8s Waves Gold/IKM Max/Nomad Factory IS3/K11U
|
dcumpian
Max Output Level: -34 dBFS
- Total Posts : 4124
- Joined: 2005/11/03 15:50:51
- Status: offline
Re: Colour Themes Overkill
2016/08/16 08:26:24
(permalink)
igiwigi
Hi to All
I have been playing with some of the themes provided on this forum which I am grateful for to try.
No matter how I re-arrange the colours through different themes Murcury always comes out best to me as It has lighter background and much easier on the eye and I like the blue buttons that light up.
With the Murcury you can colour your tracks and nothing clashes In your face as It looks nice and pastelly.
If you put themes In, red green etc,after making track and mixer colours the whole thing looks like a Mondreon and a multi-colur headache
Tungsten Is nice ,but I do not like the orange buttons and much prefer the blue In Murcury,as It looks more professional.
Oh well that is my opinion only and I think that the whole thing of the theme editor is a waste of time really like that mastering company that sits In our daw.
All the best
John
Thanks for sharing your opinion. Unlike you, Cakewalk has been hammered for years for users not being able to customize the look and feel of Sonar. So they responded. I think they are doing a fine job. Maybe they'll do something you like and others don't next, who knows. Dan
Mixing is all about control. My music: http://dancumpian.bandcamp.com/ or https://soundcloud.com/dcumpian Studiocat Advanced Studio DAW (Intel i5 3550 @ 3.7GHz, Z77 motherboard, 16GB Ram, lots of HDDs), Sonar Plat, Mackie 1604, PreSonus Audiobox 44VSL, ESI 4x4 Midi Interface, Ibanez Bass, Custom Fender Mexi-Strat, NI S88, Roland JV-2080 & MDB-1, Komplete, Omnisphere, Lots o' plugins.
|
PeteL
Max Output Level: -87 dBFS
- Total Posts : 168
- Joined: 2013/12/15 18:56:58
- Status: offline
Re: Colour Themes Overkill
2016/08/16 08:34:40
(permalink)
BobF
It's a shame that Mercury-based themes lose strip shading. Hopefully that will change.
....
In my way of thinking, changing object colors should be able to be done by any user with a right-click-choose color option instead of needing a full blown editor.
FYI - that's the way Duckbar does it, though you can augment Duckbar's color editing capability with and external graphics editor if you wish. Plus, you don't lose colored strips with Duckbar like you do with theme editor. And no need to wait for change - it's here now, and has been.
|
Kamikaze
Max Output Level: -45 dBFS
- Total Posts : 3013
- Joined: 2015/01/15 21:38:59
- Location: Da Nang, Vietnam
- Status: offline
Re: Colour Themes Overkill
2016/08/16 09:29:39
(permalink)
BobF
IMO we're just seeing the beginning with Theme Editor (TE). The really interesting stuff will be new themes built from the ground up, based on completely different images
Hold that thought..........
|
chuckebaby
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 13146
- Joined: 2011/01/04 14:55:28
- Status: offline
Re: Colour Themes Overkill
2016/08/16 09:53:39
(permalink)
im glad they gave us the theme editor to customize our own schemes.
isn't customizing what makes a DAw even better ?
Windows 8.1 X64 Sonar Platinum x64 Custom built: Asrock z97 1150 - Intel I7 4790k - 16GB corsair DDR3 1600 - PNY SSD 220GBFocusrite Saffire 18I8 - Mackie Control
|
BobF
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 8124
- Joined: 2003/11/05 18:43:11
- Location: Missouri - USA
- Status: offline
Re: Colour Themes Overkill
2016/08/16 10:24:06
(permalink)
PeteL
BobF
It's a shame that Mercury-based themes lose strip shading. Hopefully that will change.
....
In my way of thinking, changing object colors should be able to be done by any user with a right-click-choose color option instead of needing a full blown editor.
FYI - that's the way Duckbar does it, though you can augment Duckbar's color editing capability with and external graphics editor if you wish. Plus, you don't lose colored strips with Duckbar like you do with theme editor. And no need to wait for change - it's here now, and has been.
Like some other 3rd-party contributions, I tried Duckbar once. I fiddled and screwed around, but it didn't click. I couldn't find anything written about using it. I posted a question about it at the DB forum and got zero response for at least several days. I then uninstalled it. While I appreciate that people share things they've done for themselves, the whole idea of limited support and zero docs doesn't sit right with me. That's the reason I stick with fully supported solutions whenever possible. Great, DB does stuff NOW!. If I NEEDed it NOW! I would go that route. To me themes are a nice to have thing. I'm happy to let themes evolve into something that is fully supported. If they never get there, then I'll never use them. Much.
Bob -- Angels are crying because truth has died ...Illegitimi non carborundum --Studio One Pro / i7-6700@3.80GHZ, 32GB Win 10 Pro x64 Roland FA06, LX61+, Fishman Tripleplay, FaderPort, US-16x08 + ARC2.5/Event PS8s Waves Gold/IKM Max/Nomad Factory IS3/K11U
|
panup
Max Output Level: -50 dBFS
- Total Posts : 2538
- Joined: 2006/05/23 09:34:35
- Status: offline
Re: Colour Themes Overkill
2016/08/16 10:31:22
(permalink)
Hi BobF,
I'm author of Duckbar. Yes, there's very little supporting documentation to help getting started with Duckbar. Program and mods are designed initially for my personal use but I made it public so that people who are really interested to participate in development and could use it, too. Because Duckbar is a freeware project and I have limited resources to make it a fully documented, well tested program for the big audience, I have not encouraged anyone to use it for a long time.
That said, Duckbar has been updated yesterday and I will make it more user friendly for the new users. Just wait for a while, I have some great ideas how to make SONAR Themes easier to tweak.
|
Anderton
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 14070
- Joined: 2003/11/06 14:02:03
- Status: offline
Re: Colour Themes Overkill
2016/08/16 10:52:30
(permalink)
Although I agree Mercury is a great general-purpose theme, and that Tungsten certainly has its merits, I do a lot of recording seminars and workshops that revolve around SONAR. Being able to make a super-high visibility theme when using projectors is really useful. It's not done yet, but it's getting there. My only real issue with the Theme Editor is not having documentation that correlates screen elements to the names. 
|
BobF
Max Output Level: 0 dBFS
- Total Posts : 8124
- Joined: 2003/11/05 18:43:11
- Location: Missouri - USA
- Status: offline
Re: Colour Themes Overkill
2016/08/16 10:55:13
(permalink)
panup
Hi BobF,
I'm author of Duckbar. Yes, there's very little supporting documentation to help getting started with Duckbar. Program and mods are designed initially for my personal use but I made it public so that people who are really interested to participate in development and could use it, too. Because Duckbar is a freeware project and I have limited resources to make it a fully documented, well tested program for the big audience, I have not encouraged anyone to use it for a long time.
That said, Duckbar has been updated yesterday and I will make it more user friendly for the new users. Just wait for a while, I have some great ideas how to make SONAR Themes easier to tweak.
Please don't take my comments above as a dig. I'm sure Duckbar is awesome and a lot of folks are obviously making great use of it. I'm not asking you to do more work for free for my benefit. I'm simply presenting another perspective on the Duckbar vs Theme Editor discussion.
Bob -- Angels are crying because truth has died ...Illegitimi non carborundum --Studio One Pro / i7-6700@3.80GHZ, 32GB Win 10 Pro x64 Roland FA06, LX61+, Fishman Tripleplay, FaderPort, US-16x08 + ARC2.5/Event PS8s Waves Gold/IKM Max/Nomad Factory IS3/K11U
|
panup
Max Output Level: -50 dBFS
- Total Posts : 2538
- Joined: 2006/05/23 09:34:35
- Status: offline
Re: Colour Themes Overkill
2016/08/16 11:17:45
(permalink)
BobF, I understood your point. No problem! :)
--
I'm planning to make fully compatible Theme Editor in Duckbar with built-in batch color tweaking abilities but first I'll see if Cakewalk does it officially.
|
pwalpwal
Max Output Level: -43 dBFS
- Total Posts : 3249
- Joined: 2015/01/17 03:52:50
- Status: offline
Re: Colour Themes Overkill
2016/08/16 11:22:13
(permalink)
panup
I'm planning to make fully compatible Theme Editor in Duckbar with built-in batch color tweaking abilities but first I'll see if Cakewalk does it officially.
how long will you wait and see? i wouldn't be surprised if that's it for the theme editor from cake
|
ampfixer
Max Output Level: -20 dBFS
- Total Posts : 5508
- Joined: 2010/12/12 20:11:50
- Location: Ontario
- Status: offline
Re: Colour Themes Overkill
2016/08/16 11:38:17
(permalink)
I like to use Moslave's Gold theme. It's very close to ideal for me and more complete than some of the others. It would be great if there was an interface map with a legend. A nice screen shot with all the interface components numbered to a corresponding list of object names. This would really help those with the talent for graphics design.
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
|
panup
Max Output Level: -50 dBFS
- Total Posts : 2538
- Joined: 2006/05/23 09:34:35
- Status: offline
Re: Colour Themes Overkill
2016/08/16 11:55:24
(permalink)
pwalpwal
panup
I'm planning to make fully compatible Theme Editor in Duckbar with built-in batch color tweaking abilities but first I'll see if Cakewalk does it officially.
how long will you wait and see? i wouldn't be surprised if that's it for the theme editor from cake
Let's see what happens in the next 2-3 months... :)
|