rocketmorton
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How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
I know it's not a huge thing to most people, but I really like the old color scheme better (image below) but no matter what I've tried from importing other people's schemes or trying to adjust, I haven't gotten it to look right. Anyone know what I can do? 
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2016/11/16 17:03:57
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have you tried using the Theme editor to create your own theme ?
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2016/11/16 18:16:50
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There are certain aspects that can't be mimic'd, like the different text backgrounds for each type of track, and potentially other aspects. But I'll see what I can put together
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2016/11/17 14:44:05
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Yeah, I tried myself and couldn't figure it out. Any help would be awesome.
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2016/11/18 19:06:00
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Here's what I've got so far, still a lot of work on all the different buttons and knobs and such. A couple things I wish could work better is the colour for the console view strips, in 8.5 it was a gradient that made it look more metallic and that's not possible now, and the track name backgrounds can't be differentiated by type, they're all lumped into one 
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2016/11/18 19:22:51
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TC thats remarkable. You wiped that up over night?
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2016/11/18 21:03:51
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John
TC thats remarkable. You wiped that up over night?
Thanks, not over night but over the past couple days. Still have a LOT to complete before it's finished. I'm almost certain I'll have it done by the end of next week though
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2016/11/18 21:57:23
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All I can say is fantastic! So as not to be misunderstood; I am saying this because, though I am not interested in it for me, but rather you are doing this for a fellow forum member and doing a great job.
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2016/11/18 22:34:59
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Is there a way to get rid of the horizontal border lines surrounding the clips?
(like it is in 8.5)
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2016/11/18 23:04:45
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To hide clip headers and maximize clip waveform display
To globally hide the clip headers, click the Track view View menu, point to Display, and select Maximize Waveform Height. When this options is enabled, the waveform display spans the full height of clips.
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2016/11/19 01:11:55
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TranceCanada
" in 8.5 it was a gradient that made it look more metallic and that's not possible now".
Hey TC, is this because you haven't found the graphic for the 8.5 console background, or because you've not actually tried to customize any of Platinums' backgrounds yet? A bit of a heads up; I have been working on some 'metallic' backgrounds for SPlat in Theme Editor. So far tho, I've found that only a few of the customized console view background areas I've been working on are 'latching to' or being recognized after saving in TE. Don't know yet why that is unless TE itself needs more updating to accomplish it.
Best, HeyDan 
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2016/11/19 11:12:04
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" in 8.5 it was a gradient that made it look more metallic and that's not possible now".
Hey TC, is this because you haven't found the graphic for the 8.5 console background, or because you've not actually tried to customize any of Platinums' backgrounds yet? A bit of a heads up; I have been working on some 'metallic' backgrounds for SPlat in Theme Editor. So far tho, I've found that only a few of the customized console view background areas I've been working on are 'latching to' or being recognized after saving in TE. Don't know yet why that is unless TE itself needs more updating to accomplish it.
Best, HeyDan
I'm not talking about backgrounds, I was talking about the channel strip in the console view only having a function to change a single colour not a graphic. But I have been using Theme Editor since it came out and have made a few themes already, there are many things Theme Editor needs updated but in this particular example it would also take an update to SPlat to read a new graphic code instead of the single colour it uses now
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2016/11/19 12:17:44
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John
To hide clip headers and maximize clip waveform display
To globally hide the clip headers, click the Track view View menu, point to Display, and select Maximize Waveform Height. When this options is enabled, the waveform display spans the full height of clips.
Not sure if that was a response to my question. (Is there a way to get rid of the horizontal border lines surrounding the clips?) (like it is in 8.5) But, I'm not talking about the headers. I'm talking about the small thin lines that separate each track. Thanks
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2016/11/19 12:24:34
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John
To hide clip headers and maximize clip waveform display
To globally hide the clip headers, click the Track view View menu, point to Display, and select Maximize Waveform Height. When this options is enabled, the waveform display spans the full height of clips.
Not sure if that was a response to my question.
(Is there a way to get rid of the horizontal border lines surrounding the clips?)
(like it is in 8.5)
But, I'm not talking about the headers. I'm talking about the small thin lines that separate each track.
Thanks
The lines separating each clip is an option in Sonar under the Views menu then in display, I'm unable to change the look of them in the editor since there is no selection for them, without them there's nothing separating the tracks and in 8.5 they are there just smaller and less obstructive
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2016/11/19 14:37:38
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John
To hide clip headers and maximize clip waveform display
To globally hide the clip headers, click the Track view View menu, point to Display, and select Maximize Waveform Height. When this options is enabled, the waveform display spans the full height of clips.
Not sure if that was a response to my question.
(Is there a way to get rid of the horizontal border lines surrounding the clips?)
(like it is in 8.5)
But, I'm not talking about the headers. I'm talking about the small thin lines that separate each track.
Thanks
Try unchecking "Display Track Separators" found in the Track view menu-->View-->Display menu. That might be what you are looking for.
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2016/11/19 14:46:56
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Holy ****! This is incredible!
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2017/01/31 16:01:27
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Did you ever finish this? You never posted a file for me to download!
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2017/01/31 16:31:42
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Did you ever finish this? You never posted a file for me to download!
Sorry man, I did finish it, I made a thread but it quickly got lost in the shuffle of newer threads. But here's the link https://www.dropbox.com/s...bvo1e/Sonar85.sth?dl=0
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2017/01/31 16:34:30
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Wow, thanks! Yeah I must have missed the thread. I really appreciate you doing that.
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2017/01/31 16:38:44
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Wow, thanks! Yeah I must have missed the thread. I really appreciate you doing that.
No problem man. One thing I have noticed with it though, and I think it has something to do with the theme editor, is in console view when the tracks are narrow the FX names are black, and I can't seem to find what's controlling that
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2017/01/31 16:52:48
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Total non-issue for me: I rarely use the console as an individual panel and that's such a specific track scenario I doubt it would ever matter for most people. Nice work.
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2017/02/02 23:29:10
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Here's what I've got so far, still a lot of work on all the different buttons and knobs and such. A couple things I wish could work better is the colour for the console view strips, in 8.5 it was a gradient that made it look more metallic and that's not possible now,...
Hey Trance, it still is possible to incorporate the gradient. See screenshot below. Note the Input Gain, ProChannel compressor, and Sat Tube modules (highlighted in red outlines) I was able to mod using the graphic element (4 console view channel strips) found in the old Sonar 8.5 Resources folder. In case you don't have that graphic, contained in this image is the link to download it: "Due to recent PhotoBucket TOS changes regarding 3rd party hosting, I have removed these links." 8-7-2017 Of course, it takes some chopping up with a graphics editor to make it work. "One thing I have noticed with it though, and I think it has something to do with the theme editor, is in console view when the tracks are narrow the FX names are black, and I can't seem to find what's controlling that"Note the narrow track in the first screenshot. I found those FX names in the TE folder tree under: Theme/FX Rack/FX Name & Bypassed FX Name (second & third selections, top row). In my copy of Sonar, it did take several times switching back & forth between different themes in Sonar and going to narrow track, then back to wide several times before my copy of Sonar seemed to recognize or 'latch on' to the change. Don't know what's up with that, but it has happened with me sometimes. I agree, altho there are some mighty fine options here and I've been working on some of my own themes, 8.5 gui is still my personal favorite. Best, HeyDan
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2017/02/03 01:16:20
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Here's what I've got so far, still a lot of work on all the different buttons and knobs and such. A couple things I wish could work better is the colour for the console view strips, in 8.5 it was a gradient that made it look more metallic and that's not possible now,...
Hey Trance, it still is possible to incorporate the gradient. See screenshot below. Note the Input Gain, ProChannel compressor, and Sat Tube modules (highlighted in red outlines) I was able to mod using the graphic element (4 console view channel strips) found in the old Sonar 8.5 Resources folder.
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In case you don't have that graphic, contained in this image is the link to download it:
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Of course, it takes some chopping up with a graphics editor to make it work.
I get that, however my issue is the uniformity of it. It's not possible to make the entire strip a gradient, yes sections are possible and that's fine but I really want the whole strip to be a uniform style. heydan
TranceCanada
"One thing I have noticed with it though, and I think it has something to do with the theme editor, is in console view when the tracks are narrow the FX names are black, and I can't seem to find what's controlling that"
Note the narrow track in the first screenshot. I found those FX names in the TE folder tree under: Theme/FX Rack/FX Name & Bypassed FX Name (second & third selections, top row). In my copy of Sonar, it did take several times switching back & forth between different themes in Sonar and going to narrow track, then back to wide several times before my copy of Sonar seemed to recognize or 'latch on' to the change. Don't know what's up with that, but it has happened with me sometimes.
I agree, altho there are some mighty fine options here and I've been working on some of my own themes, 8.5 gui is still my personal favorite.
Best, HeyDan
That's good to know, I'm glad to see that
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2017/02/03 06:13:56
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TC great work!!!!!!! This is the very best example of what this forum is all about.
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2017/02/03 06:45:39
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This is a great theme. a lot of cool detail.
I tried making a theme using my Tascam M-520 as a reference. this takes a lot of time and effort so I can really appreciate your work.
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2017/02/03 13:33:16
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TC great work!!!!!!! This is the very best example of what this forum is all about.
Thanks man, I appreciate it. I'm more than glad to help when I can. chuckebaby
This is a great theme. a lot of cool detail.
I tried making a theme using my Tascam M-520 as a reference. this takes a lot of time and effort so I can really appreciate your work.
Thanks. I'm very interested in making one to simulate physical hardware too, thinking it may be my next project.
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Re: How can I change Sonar Platinum's Color Scheme to the old Sonar 8.5 Color Scheme?
2017/02/03 15:29:37
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That's great work!!! Thanks!
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