panup

Mod Bod


Do you have an old version that just changes the Pre/Post buttons?  I tried the Blue Light special and it was a bit over the top for my tastes.  All I want is the Pre/Post change and maybe the Stereo/Mono button. 

Here is customized customization for you:

Download Simple Mod Bod x86

Download Simple Mod Bod x64

Features:
- Pre/Post button
- Mono/Stereo button

-Panu

That works.  Thanks for the personalized service!  

Panu,

Your customizations are top notch!  Great job.

Question - does this also work with X1 Studio?  I do not have Producer.

Thank you,

Todd

A1MixMan


Great job again! I just donated $5. Get yourself a beer.

I just donated $15.
I'm not sure if $5 is enough for a beer in Finland.
 
But seriously, the effort put up by pnaup is worth donating!!!
 

I just donated $15.
I'm not sure if $5 is enough for a beer in Finland.
 
But seriously, the effort put up by pnaup is worth donating!!!
 

Thank you!!!

drumr


Did anyone ever comfirm that this will work on an XP machine?

Yes, this works on my XP SP3 machine.

cornieleous

panup


Thread got over 6000 views. Bakers should notice that people are interested in customizing!

You said it. Thanks for your efforts - really great stuff.

Customization truly is the path forward for the perfect artist toolset that works for each of us as close to our different ways of thinking as possible. All the heated arguments about too many buttons/too few, general appearance, menus - everything - can all be answered by allowing full and complete customization of all menus, colors, buttons, layouts, mouse actions, keys, etc.  People who don't get it or won't put forth the effort to customize (many people never bothered to customize menus or toolbars in 8.5.3 and in my opinion have no basis to question the "losses" some of us claim in X1) have really scared Cakewalk away from it I think - which is why customization was reduced in X1 even after they had put so much effort forth to start down this path. Shame on you Cakewalk, and on those who think this was a step forward. That 'other' DAW is definitely behind Cakewalk in elegance, and ease of use still, but its customization options allow it to actually surpass all of that in performance and visual appeal after a substantial customization effort from the user, and its likely it will be second to none if its developers ever clean up the default configuration and add a couple missing key features. Being able to optimize menus, mouse actions, keys, colors, and layouts for your way of thinking and your specific need (eg. midi vs audio recording) is such an enhancement that it blows away any other feature I can think of.

If Cakewalk did allow us to customize as much as possible and provided basic GUI/menu presets for beginning, intermediate, advanced, MIDI, live recording, whatever etc. I think they would actually spend less resources giving each type of customer what they want than the current approach - which is trying to find a middle ground that may not exist. X1 has forced users to operate in a very specific way, and the end result is pleasing some and alienating others. Granted providing for customization requires initial development time - but by getting the community involved for much of the end labor as proven by your example panup, they reduce the effort of rolling out full customizations.

D

+1000

Come up with your good basic default that most people will like (say your current skylight) but then allow people to change it as much as they want.   Wallah, both groups happy, much less ranting on the forums.  

A great example I think of this is your new automation menu where you can't right click to add automation.   If you want a new menu, put it in, but don't take away my right click !

got a side by side screen shot of the black vs blue for comparison? thx.
I'm waffling. :-)

Hi Panup
Been following this with interest and was about to try this mod out. However when I download the file from your link for the new blue light mod, my norton kicks it out as a threat, any one else had this?

hockeyjx


Stupid question:  These mods seem great, but for us waiting until X1b, won't a lot of this (meaning the new dll installed with the X1b patch) be rendered moot?

Yeah but the more support panup gets and the more practice he gets at the mods the better the X1b mods will be. If he continues his generosity through that release.

New mod - codename 'Evolution theory' version 1.00 is available in few minutes.
Change log, started from Bluelight ver 1.01:

3448.png Prochannel signal led
3502.png fader numbers
2811 CV narrow disabled
2767.bmp grey
2772.bmp grey narrow
12129 AudioSnap ON OFF
1065.bmp grey narrow.
1034.bmp grey
2669 CV MIDI narrow
672 CV Midi wide
16233 CV I/O wide background


Bluelight version 1.02 is under construction.

Some Console View background bitmaps of 1.01 will get uniform color. Track View infor area's background will be mre elegant when track height is expanded. Mono/Stereo button color will be inverted.

3581.png (MIDI 0-127) inverted
3578.png green is greener
3440.png SSL compression meter a bit lighter now
3552.png small Pre/Post inverted
2447.png New default tarck icon (large) with transparent bg; more orange
2457.png New default bus icon (large) with transparent background and 8.5.3 style arrows
753.png New default bus icon (small) with transparent background and 8.5.3 style arrows
755.png small piano icon edited
3256.png Mute icon has more saturation
3440.png inverted SSL compressor VU meter
16200, 16201, 16202.png ProCh, Track, Clip texts: blue texts on while bg -> white text on blue bg;

Hue +180, Lightness +11
16210.png Vertical Browser text color reworked
16225.png Vertical Inspector text reworked
2474, 2483,2451.png large transparent bg (Bus icons MIDI, instrument)
3553.png white dropdown - more contrast, level max 230
3539.png white dropdown - more contrast, level max 230
3540, 3528, 3526, 3524, 3595, 3594, 16198, 16199, 16211, 16240, 16241, 16244, 16245, 16222

(Media), 16233 (Plugins icon),  16224 (Synths icon), 16220, 16221, 16196 (Audio), 16197 (Midi),

16195 (Display), 16191, 16200 (Clip white side), 16201 (Track white side), 16202 (ProCh white side)
16202.png ProCh Blue bg changed to 'ProChannel blue'
16231.png Arpeggiator section reworked. Swg Vel Dur Pitch Flm Mix
3542 CV I/O text clearer (Myriad Roman 13 Pt, Strong interpol)
3579 -"-
3580 -"-
16236 Input quantize -"-
16236 Snap to scale -"-
16243.png inverted Time + box - easier to read value
16248.png inverted Key + box - easier to read value
3484.png Mono/Stereo icon - little adjustment
3427,3428,3429,3430,3431.png ProChannel 1176 Ratio Buttons - more contast, white: max level 200 ->255.
3164.bmp added tag for reverse engineering
3165.bmp added tag for reverse engineering
9965.bmp grandient white-grey bg - added a bit yellow

3164.bmp = Console View CV MIDI Strip and Icon Module background

16231 Arpeggiator mod failed. Reverted back to old and changed only Arpeggiator.

16202 Changed already changed blue bg to Console View bg
3488.png Phase switch - changed from green to blue.

3289.png Snap To button - changed to blue; now By = Green, To = Blue. Off = Grey. NO EFFECT - IS BUTTON NOT IN USE???

3564.png  Snap To button - changed to blue; now By = Green, To = Blue. Off = Grey. THE REAL SNAP TO BUTTON.

3088.bmp tagged.

2744.bmp meter peak changed from red to green to test if it is MIDI activity.
2475 -"-

3335.png Control Bar - Performance: CPU type changed from noname to Zilog Z80.
2375.bmp 2376.bmp changed clip color from red to green to test if it is MIDI activity.

Midi Activity test failed: 2774.bmp, 2475.bmp, 2375.bmp and  2376.bmp are not used anymore.

3578.png Test if this meter is MIDI activity. red are hue +35, saturation +35.

Test failed.

3442.png Export cancel X button changed to red.

Meters:
3501.png (white green orange 3 dots wide)
3577.png (white yellow red 2 dots wide)
3578.png (white yellow red 3 dots wide)
1406.bmp white green orange 3 dots wide. Legacy?
1407.bmp white green orange 3 dots wide. Horizontal. Legacy?
2288.bmp  white green orange 3 dots wide. Horizontal. Legacy?
2287.bmp  white green orange 3 dots wide. Vertical. Legacy?
2375.bmp 2 dots wide vertical. Legacy?
2376.bmp 2 dots wide horizontal. Legacy?


2767.bmp MIDI Strip, icon module and mains section background. Converted to 24 bit BMP.

Sonar ignores 24 bit colors and converts 2767.bmp to 16 bit. This makes Bluelight skin finishing

difficult! :-(

2554 can be 24 bit.

2669.bmp tagged.

3164 tag found: Console View Active Midi Track background. All except I/O and FX sectio,

3165 tag found: Console View MIDI narrow background. Filetype: bmp, 8 bits per channel. Size 102 x

32 px.

3164.bmp  Console View Active Midi Track background: Colorize: hue 9, sat 62, lightness +7 fron

ordinary bg.

3165.bmp -"-. And Blur More.
3600 CV EQ text clearer

3446.png New Control Bar DROPOUT icon.


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Will be available for X1a 32 and 64 bit + special Italian edition.

panup

toddsilva

Question - does this also work with X1 Studio?  I do not have Producer.

I have no clue. Try?

Panup, tried it in X1 Studio, and it works fine.  Great work, although some of the changes are a bit too much for me.  Also would rather see a more distinctive line between strips in the console view.

Question:

Do you download Bluelight mod and then Evolution Theory?

Or does Evolution Theory, have everything Bluelight Mod has...and more?    <edit>

Got it now.
thanks.

Is it possible to get some feature list/changelog?

I installed your mod, it makes x1 look all warm and fuzzy ;-), but I'd like to know if the colors is all you've changed (guess not)...

EDIT: is it possible for you do something about this problem? http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=2172481
the prob is basically that you have to click the actual small number of the track for it to be selected. I would like to just click anywhere on the track or on the track in the console view and have it selected so I can apply solo/mute etc.

EDIT: BTW - have you changed anything about the snap feature? it seems to apply the snap function when I drag clips/clips edges. x1 never did this before I believe, and I was really looking for a way to fix this.

Outlandish Music


Hi Panup
Been following this with interest and was about to try this mod out. However when I download the file from your link for the new blue light mod, my norton kicks it out as a threat, any one else had this?

Ignore Norton's message.
It believes that mod is doing something illegal because it does modifications to a DLL.  In this case modification is just what we want to do.

Is there any way of getting color customization for track headers and console strips?  I would like to see, for instance, all my guitar tracks red, vocals blue, drums green, etc. Thank-you so much for all your hard work. This is great!