I've been spending time setting up SPlat the way I like to work a project.  This includes a system of colors for different instrument groups.  In my other DAW the track template retains the color I have selected for the track.  Evidently, SPlat doesn't do this.
 
Anyone got any good work arounds for this?
 
I'm thinking that at the bottom of my master project template, I could create a lot of cloned tracks which I could archive and hide and use a Screenset to unhide them and then clone a copy of the track I needed and drag it up into the active tracks.  

Hi Dave-
 
I don't have a better workaround for you, but you can vote for the FR here: http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3160288
 
-Susan

Not at my daw but tracks can be set for individual color or to take the color of the bus they are assigned to. Have you played with that option for however you setting the tracks up?

tKx5050
Not at my daw but tracks can be set for individual color or to take the color of the bus they are assigned to. Have you played with that option for however you setting the tracks up?

That's not how I've been working for the past year when I finally was convinced that color coded tracks had a value.  But I'm willing to take a look at it because it may save me a little time on certain tracks.

tKx5050
Not at my daw but tracks can be set for individual color or to take the color of the bus they are assigned to. Have you played with that option for however you setting the tracks up?

Actually, that turned out to be a great workaround after I created a few dummy busses that do nothing but rout straight to another summing type bus and provide a color for a certain type of instrument.
 
I color my tracks and organize them in this order:
 
Vox - Yellow
Drums - Brown
Percussion - Brown or a shade lighter
Bass - Red
Electric Guitars - Dark Blue
Acoustic Guitars - Light Blue
Keyboards - Green
Synths - Green or a lighter green
Aux FX - Green but I'm changing to Lavender
Summing busses - Kinda between Brown and Pink. 
Master and other hardware output busses - Gray.

This has been discussed a number of times. Lots of us think it would be handy to have templates persist colors.
 
In practice, I usually  set tracks to follow bus colors.

Dave Modisette
 
I color my tracks and organize them in this order:
 
Vox - Yellow
Drums - Brown
Percussion - Brown or a shade lighter
Bass - Red
Electric Guitars - Dark Blue
Acoustic Guitars - Light Blue
Keyboards - Green
Synths - Green or a lighter green
Aux FX - Green but I'm changing to Lavender
Summing busses - Kinda between Brown and Pink. 
Master and other hardware output busses - Gray.

This is bizarre, given that we've never compared notes....I use pretty much the same colors except voice is green. Maybe red for bass because it's the longest wavelength? Blue for guitar because of "the blues"? Brown for drums due to wooden shells? I even use lavender for FX. The only other significant variation is my console tracks use gray for midi to differentiate from the instrument audio tracks.

Yes, brown for wooden shells.  Haha.  Exactly my way of thinking.

Wouldn't an empty project set up the way you want work be about the same as a project template?
You can drag and drop projects in the sonar just as easy as you can templates.
Just a thought.

kevo
Wouldn't an empty project set up the way you want work be about the same as a project template?
You can drag and drop projects in the sonar just as easy as you can templates.
Just a thought.

Yeah, that's what I'm working on now. But it's nice to have some individual templates as well.