benstat
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New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
Hi all, If anyone is interested in skinning X1 (and judging by Panu's recent thread, there are quite a few of you), you might want to have a look at the link below. To cut a long story short, I'm working on a new X1 skin editor program called SONAR Plus Skin Editor. Panup has been kind enough to agree to share his X1 skinning knowledge with me to speed things up (so I don't have to waste time figuring out all the stuff he already knows). I'll also be bundling his skins with it, so you have some ready made skins to use and tweak if you want. I'm hoping it will bring X1 skinning to the masses! Anyway, here is the link: http://www.sonarplus.co.uk/Pages/SkinEditor/SkinEditorAnnouncement.aspx Thanks, Ben
post edited by benstat - 2011/02/23 17:44:46
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/23 16:29:52
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You crazy sons of bi*@es! In the middle ages, you'd a been burned at the stake. Can't wait to check it out!
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/23 16:32:36
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/23 16:34:48
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I don't have a picture of my mouth wide open and a speechless icon of gratitude to go along with it so I'll just say -
Thank you.
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/23 16:37:46
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I sure hope Cakewalk doesn't lock down their .dll somehow with the X1b patch and make all this hard work useless.
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/23 16:39:52
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I wonder if Cakewalk has gotten the hint yet.
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/23 16:47:10
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Wow! ! ! ! Ben you are incredible, just incredible! ! ! ! I use SONAR X1 Helper every time I use SONAR X1. I can't wait for the new version of SONAR Plus and Skin Editor to be released. Thanks so all of your hard work! And thanks to Panup. I checked out his site and some of his skins are beautiful ( http://www.avaruusankat.com/SonarX1a_mod/mods/x1a/Screen%20caps/Reindeer%201.00/index.php)! Would sure be nice to have a feature in SONAR Plus the switch between skins on the fly! ;) Thanks again!
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/23 16:53:06
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Well, that's 30% of the issues I have with SONAR X1 taken care of.
Thanks, Guys. Looking forward to it.
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/23 16:55:45
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You guys absolutely rock !
Has Cake made any mention of the work you guys are doing/have done ?
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/23 17:09:29
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bub,
shhhh!
dont give them any ideas!
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benstat
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/23 17:13:11
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Gregmang
You guys absolutely rock !
Has Cake made any mention of the work you guys are doing/have done ?
It's a very tricky area for Cakewalk, and I'm not at all surprised they haven't mentioned anything so far. But, I think the fact that they are so far tolerating this type of meddling is to their credit.
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/23 17:30:44
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Both of you are a wonderful asset to this community. I hope that everyone who takes advantage of your hard work finds the donate buttons on your sites :)
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/23 17:51:29
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i will sugest a donate option for this !!
great job !!
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/23 17:54:19
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/23 18:15:37
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You're gonna make mccue love X1. 
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/23 18:25:00
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Ben you have done it again. What an improvement visually. Keep up the great work. Let me know if you need anyone to test again.
Paul
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/23 19:21:49
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benstat
Panu has been kind enough to agree to share his X1 skinning knowledge with me to speed things up
Hi people, Let's correct one major mistake of the quote: I'm privileged, not kind enough to collaborate with Ben, that superb programmer with deep knowledge of Windows programming. X1b + Sonar Plus + Skin Editor featuring my mods will be BEAUTIFUL. Maybe I was the first to mod X1 but I look forward to see you guys share your mods made by the Skin Editor. It will be easy, fun and safe. I don't believe Cakewalk is against us. Why would it be? In case Bakers prevent modding this community will get utterly mad. If they let us continue then users will get happier. Cakewalk wins. Community wins. -Panu
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/23 19:39:49
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Benstat and Panup: You two have made so many people here much happier, day-by-day. We now have a new and improved reason to log on to the site. For a while, I dreaded logging om because of all the fighting (rightly or wrongly). Your new proposed Skin Editor will be welcomed by so many, many, many etc...... I love Sonar Plus; I love Panup's mods; and I am beginning to love Cakewalk X1a. I look forward to turning on the DAW once again because of you two! It is an exciting time to be part of this forum because of what you two have offered to us in the service of the greater good of music. Cecelius2 
post edited by cecelius2 - 2011/02/23 19:40:51
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/23 19:55:06
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Guys, While you're at it, can you also fix AudioSnap? And how about some additional Staff/Notation features? 
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/23 20:08:10
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Will you please make sure there is a high contrast mod. I use Panup's black one with white text. I think the text could be just a touch bigger or just bold. It is an eye saver for me. If you want a screenshot of how I set my view up for anything, it's done.
Well done!
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/23 20:12:15
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If it allows me to create text on a background so that it is easier to read, I'm in for sure.
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/23 20:13:29
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Thank You to both of you!!!
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/23 21:07:43
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Well I take this as a general answer to X1's "one UI to rule them all" methodology. They're gonna have to open customizations back up someday, I don't know of any program that gets better going the other way.
Maybe they'll use this as a jumping off point and implement full-scale skinning so they don't have to deal with forumites flipping out every time they change an interface element.
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/23 21:32:26
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Keep on Rockin me Baby!!!!
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/23 21:44:34
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You two, Benstat and Panup, are so humble and so nice. You're quite an asset to this community.
Thanks a bunch, for your work! :)
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/24 00:06:14
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Beware: The CW managers have thwarted at least 3 attempts at significant expansion of Sonar.
Sonar 4 broke Sendkeys, a CAL macro extention.
And Universal Surface control with macro functions, and a midi FX macro language, became less useful with upgrades, and lack of published specs and/or lack of full implementation.
The authors told me CW dudes were most unhelpful with making information available.
Why? Prolly the idiotic belief that propritary information is more important than user's ability to use the program.
Sharing information is always more profitable.
So is good marketing.
I hope they do not interfere with Sonar Plus' development.
But given the general stupidity of SX I figger they will find a way.
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/24 01:02:25
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Zo
i will sugest a donate option for this !!
great job !!
Thanks from me too! Really looking forward to it, and I have made a donation in appreciation of your great work. It's also nice that you and Panu are collaborating.
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/24 02:35:50
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cool thx
and dont forget the german users to use the skin editor :)
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Re:New SONAR Plus Skin Editor Coming in March
2011/02/24 03:13:39
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jm24
Beware: The CW managers have thwarted at least 3 attempts at significant expansion of Sonar.
They should't. Allready posted this in Panup's thread, but I will post it once again, hoping Cakewalk will read this: Modding can contribute to the succes of SONAR. This happened with Rebirth, more than 10 years ago. Back in the days of Rebirth hackers made modded versions of Rebirth. The possibility of making mods was soon adopted by Propellerheads and contributed to the succes of Rebirth. The possibility of modding became a feature. Read more on this: http://www.rebirthmuseum.com/community/part4.htm I hope that Cake learnes from music history.
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