New PRV. Track colours?

So I go to Edit/Preferences/Colors, Select All then Apply...nada.
 
Am I doing something wrong? I have read Help and everything, even before I posted this.
 
I know I can set track colours using each track's color bar, but I want the colour s to "stick" for all projects.
 
Thanks for any help. As I said elsewhere, with the new PRV having track types coloured would be a great help. I can see that after changing individual tracks' colours.

If you mean the entire track strip/console view channel, switch to the Mercury theme - that's the only one that allows full track strip colorization.

timidi

stevec
If you mean the entire track strip/console view channel, switch to the Mercury theme - that's the only one that allows full track strip colorization.

That is not entirely true. The Mercury theme does have more coloring options than the tungsten, however it does not allow "full track strip colorization". 
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/colors-m3573513.aspx
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Will-The-New-Sonar-Change-The-Clip-BACKGROUND-Colors-m3148742.aspx
 
 

The track strip is just the strip itself, not  where the clips are.


are you saying in Mercury, there is a problem with the track strip color ?
I read some of the links but didn't see a problem with Track strip itself.

timidi
Hey Chuck. I'm just saying that it does not allow "full track strip colorization" as it does for example in, um, 8.5.
 

I haven't used 8.5 in years...  what did it do differently in regards to the track strips themselves?
 

Not sure if this is what you are asking, but in the new PRV, if you have autolock on, all the tracks except the selected one will be in grey. Turn autolock off and you'll see all the tracks colours.

Detwoen
Not sure if this is what you are asking, but in the new PRV, if you have autolock on, all the tracks except the selected one will be in grey. Turn autolock off and you'll see all the tracks colours.

Thanks, but no, that's not what I am asking. If I set the track colours (I was wanting to change the Track Strip colour, at least, but whataver) then the new PRV can be made to show the track colours. To me this is important because in the track list now I want to know what is MIDI, Audio Synth etc and use colours to do that.
 
But my problem is even with Mercury, trying to set track colours according to the way I had successfully done it before is not working and I reckon I lost all my track colours when I updated to 2017.03 (I think it is). I had them so Audio tracks were one colour, MIDI another Synth another. I also had track name text set by colours the same way.
 
The best I have done after repeated efforts is to ask for Audio Track Text colour to be red, only to find that the Audio Track _Strip_ comes up red....but then changing the Audio Track Text colour to be greeen still leaves Audio Track strips red.
 
SO what I begging someone to do is either say "It's a mess and needs fixing", or lay out the steps I should be doing to make Audio tracks text, strips or something, the colour I ask for. I know I have done this before with success at least in certain areas. Now I cannot make it work even in Mercury. I have asked SONAR support and got frustrating, stock replies.

timidi
It's a mess and needs fixing.

So you are saying that it fails as I am describing? It does not respond?
 
Or are you just "patting" me?
 
Sorry I have had so little replies and Cakewalk "support" has been so .......front porch...I have trouble believing I am actually right and it's stuffed.

Hmmm....thank you....so it's not just me. Wow. If you think a 3rd party solution is poor then you should try to ask for "support" on this. It's like talking to a rabid dog. It makes no sense. It's as if the person replying can speak, but not hear, English.